Florida Gators (16-6, 7-2 SEC) at Texas A&M Aggies (17-5, 7-2 SEC)<\/p>\n
College Station, Texas; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Gators -4.5; over\/under is 163.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Texas A&M faces No. 17 Florida after Rashaun Agee scored 21 points in Texas A&M\u2019s 100-97 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n The Aggies are 12-1 on their home court. Texas A&M is third in college basketball averaging 92.0 points and is shooting 47.5% from the field.<\/p>\n The Gators are 7-2 against SEC opponents. Florida leads college basketball with 42.5 rebounds per game led by Rueben Chinyelu averaging 11.4.<\/p>\n Texas A&M makes 47.5% of its shots from the field this season, which is 6.3 percentage points higher than Florida has allowed to its opponents (41.2%). Florida has shot at a 47.0% clip from the field this season, 3.7 percentage points higher than the 43.3% shooting opponents of Texas A&M have averaged.<\/p>\n The Aggies and Gators face off Saturday for the first time in SEC play this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Agee is averaging 14.2 points and 8.7 rebounds for the Aggies. Ruben Dominguez is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Thomas Haugh is scoring 17.6 points per game with 6.4 rebounds and 1.9 assists for the Gators. Chinyelu is averaging 14 points and 11.8 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Aggies: 8-2, averaging 88.4 points, 34.9 rebounds, 17.2 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.9 points per game.<\/p>\n Gators: 8-2, averaging 88.6 points, 42.3 rebounds, 17.5 assists, 7.5 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.7 points.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gators (16-6, 7-2 SEC) at Texas A&M Aggies (17-5, 7-2 SEC) College Station, Texas; Saturday, 8:30 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[778,63485,1770,2692,416,49066,29044,3118,2745,4862,32355,57554,154,27,260,29,28,2762,1760],"class_list":["post-153540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-mens-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-ruben-dominguez","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-thomas-haugh","tag-tx-state-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153540","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=153540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}