{"id":211167,"date":"2026-03-19T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/211167\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:18:09","slug":"saint-marys-gaels-and-texas-am-aggies-square-off-in-the-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/211167\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Mary’s Gaels and Texas A&M Aggies square off in the first round of NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas A&M Aggies<\/a> (21-11, 11-8 SEC<\/a>) vs. Saint Mary’s Gaels<\/a> (27-5, 16-3 WCC)<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City; Thursday, 7:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Gaels -3.5; over\/under is 147.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: No. 22 Saint Mary’s (CA) and Texas A&M square off in the NCAA Tournament first round.<\/p>\n

The Gaels’ record in WCC play is 16-3, and their record is 11-2 against non-conference opponents. Saint Mary’s (CA) averages 10.2 turnovers per game and is 7-2 when it wins the turnover battle.<\/p>\n

The Aggies’ record in SEC play is 11-8. Texas A&M ranks seventh in the SEC with 10.3 offensive rebounds per game led by Rashaun Agee<\/a> averaging 2.7.<\/p>\n

Saint Mary’s (CA) makes 46.2% of its shots from the field this season, which is 2.0 percentage points higher than Texas A&M has allowed to its opponents (44.2%). Texas A&M scores 23.1 more points per game (87.7) than Saint Mary’s (CA) gives up to opponents (64.6).<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Paulius Murauskas<\/a> is shooting 48.9% and averaging 18.8 points for the Gaels. Mikey Lewis<\/a> is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ruben Dominguez<\/a> is shooting 40.4% from beyond the arc with 2.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Aggies, while averaging 10.3 points. Agee is averaging 15.6 points and 9.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Gaels: 8-2, averaging 77.3 points, 38.6 rebounds, 15.7 assists, 5.8 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Aggies: 4-6, averaging 78.3 points, 32.7 rebounds, 14.2 assists, 6.5 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 42.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.6 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&M Aggies (21-11, 11-8 SEC) vs. Saint Mary’s Gaels (27-5, 16-3 WCC) Oklahoma City; Thursday, 7:35 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,64550,82730,82729,24268,32355,19643,9764,27,260,29,28],"class_list":["post-211167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-event_preview","tag-mikey-lewis","tag-paulius-murauskas","tag-rashaun-agee","tag-ruben-dominguez","tag-saint-marys-gaels","tag-sec","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211167","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=211167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}