The Aggies jumped out to an early lead before the first media timeout, but were unable to hold it, falling behind the Rebels for much of the period.<\/p>\n
A&M finished the half 35% from the field, including 18% from beyond the arc. Ole Miss fared better, finishing 50% and 25%, respectively.<\/p>\n
A&M\u00a0outrebounded\u00a0Ole Miss 21-14 but lost the turnover battle 6-5. The Aggies’ reserves, which are usually strong, had minimal impact, but still outpaced the Rebels in bench points 9-8.<\/p>\n
Aggies’ guard Marcus Hill had a team-high 10 points, shooting 4-for-8\u00a0from the field. Forward Federiko Federiko paced the Aggies on the boards with four rebounds.<\/p>\n
For the Rebels, forward Malik Dia led the way, finishing the half with 10\u00a0points while shooting 5-for-9\u00a0from the field. Dia also collected a team-high three\u00a0rebounds.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned for updates from the action:<\/p>\n
A&M has struggled offensively, going scoreless for more than six minutes. The Aggies have made just one of their last seven shots and are 33% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Rebels have erased the Aggies’ lead by making their last four shots. Ole Miss is shooting 62% from the field early.<\/p>\n
Good start for A&M, which jumps out to an early lead at the first media timeout. The Aggies are 5-for-7 from the field and 2-for-4 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n
When: 6\u00a0p.m. Wednesday at Reed Arena<\/p>\n
TV\/radio: SEC Network, 1370 AM in Austin; 1150 AM, 93.7 FM in College Station.<\/p>\n
Moneyline: Texas A&M -475,\u00a0Ole Miss +350<\/p>\n
Spread:Texas A&M is a 9\u00bd point favorite<\/p>\n
Reach Texas A&M beat reporter Tony Catalina via email at Anthony.Catalina@statesman.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aggies jumped out to an early lead before the first media timeout, but were unable to hold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,48876,3112,68232,5277,27,16771,29,28,9228],"class_list":["post-170598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-ole-miss-basketball","tag-sec-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-a-m-aggies-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-ttp-live-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170598","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=170598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}