AUSTIN \u2014 The weather in central Texas is chilly on this Saturday night, but Texas A&M put Texas\u2019 hot streak into deep freeze.<\/p>\n
Rashaun Agee<\/a> and Rylan Griffen<\/a> each scored 17 points each as the Aggies (14-4, 4-1 SEC) beat the Longhorns (11-7, 2-3 SEC) 74-70 at the Moody Center for its first win in Austin in 24 years. It also puts A&M back in a tie for first place in the SEC. It ends Texas\u2019 two-game winning streak, which included victories over 13th-ranked Alabama and 10th-ranked Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n Agee, who also had 11 rebounds, ended the night with his eighth double-double of the season.<\/p>\n After both teams struggled to score during the first half, the Aggies jumped out after halftime to break a 29-29 tie and led the entire second half.<\/p>\n The Aggies easily outshot the Longhorns in the first stanza, making 43% of their shots but only 2 of 10 3-pointers. Texas only shot 32% from the floor, but made 3 of 11 3-pointers and were aided by shooting 10 free throws (making 8) to A&M\u2019s 5. But a 7-0 run late in the half, including 5 points from guard Ruben Dominguez (10 points) allowed A&M to go in to halftime tied.<\/p>\n Griffen \u2014 who scored all 17 of his points in the second half \u2014 took command immediately after halftime, converting a 4-point play 31 seconds into the second half to give the Aggies a lead they would not relinquish. Tramon Mark<\/a> (13 points) made a jumper for Texas to cut the lead to 2, but Griffen responded with another 3. Agee then followed with a layup to give the Aggies a 38-31 lead, their biggest of the night to that point. <\/p>\n After Texas guard Jordan Pope<\/a> (17 points) hit a 3-pointer of his own to cut the lead to 4, Griffen and Agee struck again in rapid succession, with Griffen hitting another 3 and Agee converting a 3-point play to give the Aggies a double-digit lead at 44-34 with 16:17 remaining in the game. <\/p>\n Griffen, who came into the game shooting 40% from beyond the arc, made 4 of 5 attempts Saturday.<\/p>\n Texas would cut the lead to 6 four times, but the Aggies had a response each time. A 3 from Pope cut the A&M lead to 56-50 with 9:49 to go in the game, only for Agee to hit a pair of free throws and a basket to push the lead back to 10. After baskets by Dailyn Swain<\/a> (17 points) and Pope made it 60-54 with 7:07 remaining, Griffen scored a layup to push the lead to 8. <\/p>\n Mark then hit a jumper, which Griffen topped with a 3 to push the Aggie lead back to 9 at 65-56. Texas had the lead back to 6 with 4:37 remaining, but Ali Dibba<\/a> scored a layup with an assist from Agee to push the lead back to 8. Point guard Jacari Lane <\/a>(8 points) delivered the dagger with his lone 3-pointer of the night with 3:02 remaining to put A&M up 73-62.<\/p>\n With the Aggies backing off defensively, Texas made a furious 8-0 run to get within as close as 3 points with 7 seconds remaining. But, after Lane made one of two free throws at the other end, A&M\u2019s victory was assured.<\/p>\n Texas A&M shot 51% from the floor for the game, including 60% from the field and 3-point range after halftime. Texas shot 41.5% from the field and just 29% from 3-point range, but made 20 of 26 free throws to keep the game within shouting distance. The Aggies only turned the ball over 6 times the entire night, while Texas committed 8 turnovers. But A&M took full advantage, scoring 15 points off of those turnovers.<\/p>\n The Aggies return home to face Mississippi State (10-7, 2-2 SEC) Wednesday night at Reed Arena. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 The weather in central Texas is chilly on this Saturday night, but Texas A&M put Texas\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24263,132,134,133,55008,55009,55010,24268,24270,55011],"class_list":{"0":"post-127818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-ali-dibba-21-central-pointe-academy","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-dailyn-swain-23-columbus-africentric-early-college","13":"tag-jacari-lane-22-lee","14":"tag-jordan-pope-22-prolific-prep","15":"tag-rashaun-agee","16":"tag-rylan-griffen-22-richardson","17":"tag-tramon-mark-20-dickinson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}