{"id":206556,"date":"2026-03-16T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206556\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:14:18","slug":"dancing-texas-am-basketball-grabs-a-no-10-seed-and-a-shot-to-make-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206556\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing! Texas A&#038;M Basketball Grabs a No. 10 Seed and a Shot to Make Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The bracket is out and the Aggies are in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas A&amp;M men\u2019s basketball landed a No. 10 seed in the South Region on Sunday and will play No. 7 seed Saint Mary\u2019s on Thursday in Oklahoma City. This is a pretty big deal for this A&amp;M team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When Bucky McMillan took the job last spring, the situation looked more like a rebuild than a tournament roster. The Aggies had almost no returning production, our portal options were disappearing fast, and expectations were modest at best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But instead of treating the season like a reset year, McMillan installed his system effectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By January, it was clear something was working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas A&amp;M went from being picked near the bottom of the SEC to finishing 11-7 in conference play with wins over teams like Auburn, Texas, and Kentucky along the way. The roster found its rhythm behind players like Rashaun Agee, Rylan Griffen, Marcus Hill, Rub\u00e9n Dominguez, and Pop Isaacs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The result is 21 regular season wins and a trip to March Madness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A 10-seed isn\u2019t supposed to scare anyone. But teams that play fast tend to be dangerous this time of year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And if the first year of Bucky Ball proved anything, it\u2019s that this group doesn\u2019t care much about what it\u2019s supposed to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bracket is out and the Aggies are in. Texas A&amp;M men\u2019s basketball landed a No. 10 seed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,55059,29,28],"class_list":["post-206556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-aggie-mens-basketball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206556","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=206556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}