{"id":39205,"date":"2025-11-07T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39205\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:04:13","slug":"agee-griffen-lead-texas-ams-offensive-charge-in-2nd-half-for-win-over-texas-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39205\/","title":{"rendered":"Agee, Griffen lead Texas A&#038;M&#8217;s offensive charge in 2nd half for win over Texas Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762399689_685_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP)  Rashaun Agee scored 16 points, Rylan Griffen scored 14 and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/TEXAM\/texas-am-aggies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a> opened it up in the second half to beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/TEXSO\/texas-southern-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Southern<\/a> 104-70 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Hill scored 13 points, reserves Josh Holloway 12 and Ruben Dominguez 10. The Aggies (2-0) had 12 players enter the scoring column with nine registering at least a pair of field goals.<\/p>\n<p>Agee shot 6 of 9, Griffen 5 of 8 and Holloway made all four of his shot attempts. Texas A&amp;M shot 54.1% (33 of 61) and scored 63, second-half points.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve Cameron Patterson led Texas Southern (0-2) with 18 points and fellow backups Troy Hupstead scored 15 and Alex Anderson 10.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson threw down a dunk, and Hupstead made a jumper before Patterson made a jumper and a layup during an 8-0 run to put Texas Southern up 23-17 with 12:34 left before halftime. Near the end of the half, Griffen made a 3-pointer to give the Aggies a 36-34 lead. Dominguez added three foul shots and Texas A&amp;M led 41-36 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M started the second half with a 13-4 run and the Aggies led by double-digits the rest of the way. Hill converted a three-point play to push the lead to 62-42 with 15:38.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies lead the series 11-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) Rashaun Agee scored 16 points, Rylan Griffen scored 14 and Texas A&amp;M opened it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,27,260,29,28,20703],"class_list":{"0":"post-39205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-am-aggies","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-texas-southern-tigers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39205","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=39205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}