{"id":223847,"date":"2026-03-27T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/223847\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:58:07","slug":"texas-am-basketball-coach-bucky-mcmillan-inks-extension-following-year-1-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/223847\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M basketball coach Bucky McMillan inks extension following Year 1 success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE STATION \u2014 A successful first season leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/tamu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas A&amp;M basketball<\/a> has earned head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/aggies\/article\/bucky-mcmillan-texas-am-aggies-mbb-sec-ncaa-22089913.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bucky McMillan<\/a> a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports, McMillan has agreed in principle to a new contract that includes both an extension and a market adjustment to his salary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billyliucci\/status\/2037635676280094981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Billy Liucci<\/a>, TexAgs&#8217; executive editor and co-owner, was the first to report the new deal. It was then <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeffborzello\/status\/2037639139235967134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">later confirmed<\/a> by ESPN&#8217;s Pete Thamel and Jeff Borzello.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/aggies\/article\/bucky-mcmillan-texas-am-aggies-mbb-sec-ncaa-22089913.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">One year later, Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s future looks bright under Bucky McMillan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lukeevangelist_\/status\/2037650259552116998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TexAgs&#8217; Luke Evangelist<\/a>, McMillan is expected to rise from being one of the lowest-paid coaches in the SEC to among the top 10 highest-paid in the conference and inside the top 30 in college basketball.<\/p>\n<p>McMillan joined A&amp;M with only one player on the roster after leaving Samford, where he spent five years with the Bulldogs. He finished with a 99-52 record, winning two regular-season championships, one conference tournament and making one\u00a0NCAA Tournament appearance before joining the Aggies.<\/p>\n<p>A&amp;M finished McMillan&#8217;s first season tied for fourth in the SEC, finishing the year with a 22-12 record overall and an 11-7 mark in conference play. They earned a 10-seed in the NCAA Tournament, defeating seventh-seeded Saint Mary&#8217;s in the first round before losing to second-seeded Houston in the Round of 32.<\/p>\n<p>Reach Texas A&amp;M beat reporter Tony Catalina via email at Anthony.Catalina@statesman.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2014 A successful first season leading Texas A&amp;M basketball has earned head coach Bucky McMillan a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24264,2692,66615,5277,27,16771,260,6095,29,28],"class_list":["post-223847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-bucky-mcmillan","tag-college-basketball","tag-dallas-sharing","tag-sec-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-a-m-aggies-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-am-basketball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223847","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=223847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}