{"id":324210,"date":"2026-06-05T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324210\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:10:08","slug":"aggies-to-face-stanford-in-sec-acc-challenge-texas-am-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324210\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggies to Face Stanford in SEC-ACC Challenge &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL, Conn. \u2013\u00a0The Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball team hosts Stanford\u00a0on Wednesday, Dec. 2 as part of the 2026 SEC-ACC Challenge slate, ESPN announced Friday morning. The game&#8217;s tip time and TV designation will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup marks the second all-time meeting between the Aggies and Cardinal. The only previous meeting took place in San Francisco during the 1949-50 season when Stanford took home a 55-49 win. The Aggies are 2-1 in the SEC-ACC Challenge after topping Pitt, 81-73, on the road last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In their first season under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/bucky-mcmillan\/1995\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1995\" target=\"_blank\">Bucky McMillan<\/a>, the Aggies notched a 22-12 overall record for their fifth consecutive 20-win season and finished fourth in the SEC with an 11-7 mark in league play. Texas A&amp;M capped off the year with its fourth straight NCAA Tournament appearance, falling to Houston in the second round. The Maroon &amp; White set nine single-season team records, while ranking among the top-20 nationally in scoring offense (86.1), 3&#8217;s per game (10.6), assists per game (17.8) and bench points (34.9).<\/p>\n<p>Stanford is led by Kyle Smith, who guided the Cardinal to a 20-13 overall record in 2025-26, including a 9-9 mark in the ACC. Stanford closed out its season with an overtime loss to West Virginia in the College Basketball Crown.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow the Aggies<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVisit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12thMan.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information on Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball. Fans can keep up with Aggie men&#8217;s basketball team on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggiembk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiembk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and X by following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aggiembk\" rel=\"nofollow\">@AggieMBK<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISTOL, Conn. \u2013\u00a0The Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball team hosts Stanford\u00a0on Wednesday, Dec. 2 as part of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-324210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324210","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=324210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}