{"id":23312,"date":"2025-10-27T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23312\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:58:07","slug":"texas-am-mens-basketball-beats-arizona-state-in-preseason-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23312\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M men’s basketball beats Arizona State in preseason game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The free throw total Sunday for Texas A&M basketball<\/a> looked like something out of an early season Division I versus Division II\u00a0matchup. But it was against fellow Power Four program Arizona State that Texas A&M attempted a whopping 38 free throws in an exhibition\u00a0win.<\/p>\n

With the regular season opening in just about a week, the\u00a0Aggies beat the Arizona State Sun Devils, 95-88 at the Fort Bend Epicenter. San Antonio native Zach Clemence led the way with 20 points. The 6-foot-11 transfer added seven rebounds and made five 3-pointers over 20 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthony Johnson had a game-high 27 points with seven rebounds for Arizona State.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M shot 28-for-60 from the field in its first game under new head coach Bucky McMillan. McMillan is known for his high-pace, high-volume 3-point shooting, but ASU actually put up more shots than the A&M.<\/p>\n

The Aggies held the Sun Devils\u00a0to just 30-for-69 shooting on the night. ASU made 10 of 36 3-point attempts compared to A&M’s 13 of 29. The home team, playing in the Houston suburb of Rosenberg, made 26 of their 38 free throw tries; the Sun Devils were 18-for-23.<\/p>\n

Clemence’s former Kansas teammate,\u00a0Rylan Griffen, scored 10 points for the Aggies\u00a0in the first half as A&M trailed 42-40. Green\u00a0was second on the team with four made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M comes into the season with a revamped roster after the departure of former head coach Buzz Williams, who’s now with Maryland. He led the Aggies to a 23-11 record and the second round of\u00a0the NCAA Tournament last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A&M opens its first regular season under McMillan, who previously coach at Samford, on\u00a0Nov. 3 against Northwestern State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The free throw total Sunday for Texas A&M basketball looked like something out of an early season Division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,14539,16770,16771,29,28],"class_list":["post-23312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-a-m-aggies","tag-texas-a-m-aggies-basketball","tag-texas-a-m-aggies-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312","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=23312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}