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I realize watching a man who voluntarily left college basketball and played professionally return to college basketball and play in the SEC again — and all of the other nonsense connected to the NCAA these days, including another player now actively trying to do more or less the same thing — has damaged the sport in some folks’ eyes.<\/p>\n
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But if you can get past that stuff and just focus on the actual games, college basketball really is a terrific product filled with awesome stories — and it’s overdue for Texas A&M<\/a> to be added to the list of coolest things. Arizona<\/a> is undefeated and awesome. You know that. Miami (Ohio)<\/a> is 22-0 and proof that success at the mid-major level remains difficult but attainable. We’ve been over that. Nebraska<\/a> hasn’t won a regular-season conference championship since 1950 but could change that this season. You’re probably aware of that given that the Cornhuskers are 20-1 and didn’t take their first loss until last week.<\/p>\n Great stories, all of them.<\/p>\n So is Texas A&M.<\/p>\n Matt Norlander and I actually opened Friday’s episode of the Eye On College Basketball Podcast<\/a>\u00a0— after we discussed\u00a0my snow\/ice issues<\/a>\u00a0— on the Aggies. Texas A&M, under first-year coach Bucky McMillan, a 42 year old who was coaching high school basketball just six years ago, is now 17-4 overall, 7-1 in the SEC and on a four-game winning streak featuring two Quadrant 1 victories after Saturday’s 92-77 win at Georgia<\/a>. Are the Aggies the best team in the SEC? That’s debatable. But they are alone atop the SEC standings. That’s a fact. And the SEC is the highest-rated conference in the country, according to the NET. That’s also a fact. Which means McMillan, again, a 42 year old who was working at a high school six years ago, is now guiding the team that’s alone in first in the standings of a conference that put a record 14 schools in last season’s NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n What. A. Story.<\/p>\n Texas A&M is No. 24 in Sunday morning’s updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings, where Arizona remains No. 1 for the 22nd consecutive day. The Aggies have six double-digit scorers on their roster all of whom, just like their coach, are in their first year in the program. Again, what a story.<\/p>\n
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