{"id":132118,"date":"2026-01-21T17:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/132118\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:10:25","slug":"where-texas-am-mens-basketball-teams-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/132118\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Texas, A&M men’s basketball teams land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though it is a few weeks shy of the conference play halfway point, both teams have done enough so far to catch Lunardi’s eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texas, which is 12th place in the SEC standings being picked to place ninth in the preseason poll, has been solid under first-year coach\u00a0Sean Miller<\/a>. The Horns (11-7, 2-3) are looking to make the tournament for the sixth straight year.<\/p>\n

A&M was picked to finish 13th in the preseason poll<\/a> and is in second place. The Aggies (14-4, 4-1) are also playing for a new coach, in\u00a0Bucky McMillan<\/a>. The 2021-22 season was the last year A&M didn’t make the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n

Here is what Lunardi thinks so far:<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday afternoon, Lunardi \u2014 ESPN’s longtime bracketologist \u2014 has Texas as the last team into the 64-spot bracket and its highest projected seed is ninth.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns had a rough start to conference play, losing two straight games. But they rebounded for back-to-back wins over Alabama<\/a> and Vanderbilt<\/a>, giving the Commodores their first loss of the season before falling to Texas A&M<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the NET rankings<\/a>, Texas is projected for the tourney field since it is ranked 41. Texas has played seven Quad 1 teams and gone 3-4 but are 0-2 against Quad 2 teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A&M’s highest seed would be 10th, per Lunardi, with the\u00a0Aggies considered one of the teams that would skip the First Four round.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A&M is right behind the Longhorns at 42, according to NET. The Aggies have played just five Quad 1 teams and gone 2-3, but the\u00a0Aggies are 3-1 against Quad 2 teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bracketology is subject to change before Selection Sunday on March 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though it is a few weeks shy of the conference play halfway point, both teams have done…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,7000,48876,16771,50141],"class_list":["post-132118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-espn","tag-march-madness","tag-texas-a-m-aggies-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-longhorns-mens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132118","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=132118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}