{"id":195552,"date":"2026-03-08T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/195552\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:17:09","slug":"texas-am-basketball-draws-6-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/195552\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M basketball draws 6 seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE STATION \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/tamu\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas A&amp;M basketball<\/a> is locked into its slot in the upcoming SEC Tournament and could face a familiar foe in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>On the final day of the 2025-26 regular season, the Aggies (21-10, 11-7) defeated the\u00a0LSU Tigers in triple overtime and secured the sixth spot in the upcoming tournament. First-year Aggies coach\u00a0Bucky McMillan has\u00a0completed five consecutive years with 20 or more wins dating back to his time at Samford.<\/p>\n<p>Who A&amp;M is set to play won&#8217;t be determined until Wednesday, when the 11-seed Oklahoma Sooners takes on 14-seed South Carolina Gamecocks. The\u00a0Aggies will play the winner of that matchup in the final game of the day Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A&amp;M beat Oklahoma twice this season,\u00a0 83-76 Jan. 10 at Reed Arena, then again 75-71 Feb. 21 in Norman, Okla. The\u00a0Aggies only faced the Gamecocks once this season, but dismantled them 92-69 in College Station.<\/p>\n<p>With A&amp;M battling on and off the bubble over the last month of the season, a couple of wins in Nashville,\u00a0Tenn., would help solidify its place in the NCAA Tournament, but may not be necessary following its final two victories of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Reach Texas A&amp;M Beat Reporter Tony Catalina via email at Anthony.catalina@hearst.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2014Texas A&amp;M basketball is locked into its slot in the upcoming SEC Tournament and could face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,48876,3112,5277,27,16771,6095,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-195552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-college-football-playoff","9":"tag-march-madness","10":"tag-ncaa-tournament","11":"tag-sec-basketball","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-a-m-aggies-men-s-basketball","14":"tag-texas-am-basketball","15":"tag-texas-headlines","16":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195552","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=195552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}