{"id":39307,"date":"2025-11-07T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39307\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:57:20","slug":"second-half-outburst-leads-aggies-to-104-70-rout-of-texas-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39307\/","title":{"rendered":"Second half outburst leads Aggies to 104-70 rout of Texas Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLLEGE STATION \u2014 Texas Southern went into the locker room at halftime thinking they had a chance to beat Texas A&M. The combination of an Aggie offensive explosion and opportunistic defense made sure they didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

After leading by only five points at intermission, the Aggies (2-0) exploded for 63 points in the second half to pummel the Tigers (0-2) 104-70 before 6,821 at Reed Arena Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Five Aggies scored in double digits, led by forward Rashaun Agee<\/a>\u2018s 16 points. A total of 12 different players scored for A&M, which has outscored the highest total for last year\u2019s team in both of their first two outings under coach Bucky McMillan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Slow start leads to slim halftime lead<\/p>\n

Triple digits seemed a long way away with eight minutes gone in the game, when the Aggies trailed 23-17. Struggling from beyond the arc, the Aggies began to attack the basket with their big men, Agee and Federiko Federiko<\/a>. Federiko\u2019s first points, a dunk, cut Texas Southern\u2019s lead to four, then Agee scored A&M\u2019s next four points at close range. A 3-pointer by Pop Isaacs<\/a> (6 points) cut the Tigers\u2019 lead to one at 26-25, and two free throws from Federiko (9 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists) kept the Aggies close at 29-28. A free throw from Josh Holloway<\/a> tied the game up, and a layup by Marcus Hill<\/a> put A&M ahead 30-28.<\/p>\n

Texas Southern took a one-point lead two more times, but a 6-0 run on a 3-pointer by Rylan Griffen<\/a> (14 points) and three free throws from Ruben Dominguez<\/a> (10 points) put the Aggies ahead to stay. Still, a 41-36 halftime lead was less than impressive.<\/p>\n

What happened after halftime, however, was. <\/p>\n

Aggies pummel Tigers with second half scoring avalanche<\/p>\n

The Aggies started off the second half with a 3-pointer from Griffen and an 8-0 run that included a 3 from Agee and 5 points from Federiko in just 55 seconds to push the lead to 14 at 54-40. The run was aided by two of Texas Southern\u2019s 23 turnovers, which led to 32 A&M points.<\/p>\n

Another 12-0 run, which came courtesy of five more Tigers turnovers, put the Aggies up 22 at 66-42 with 13:41 remaining in the game. An 8-0 run that included 5 points from Ali Dibba<\/a> (9 points) and a pair of TSU turnovers pushed the margin to 77-48 less than four minutes later. <\/p>\n

Texas Southern would get no closer than 23 points from that point, but another big run of 10 points put the Aggies back up 33 with 3:40 remaining. Another four points from Dibba pushed A&M past the century mark at 101-68 with 1:11 to go.<\/p>\n

For the half, the Aggies shot 60.6% from the field and 7 of 15 from 3-point distance (46.7%). They also made 17 of 21 free throws off of 12 Texas Southern fouls.<\/p>\n

For the game, A&M shot 54% from the field and 38% (12-32) from beyond the arc. Texas Southern shot 51% from the field, but had 12 fewer shots than the Aggies. The Tigers went 15-25 from the free throw stripe, while the Aggies were 25-37. <\/p>\n

A&M only turned the ball over 8 times and tallied 23 assists in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2014 Texas Southern went into the locker room at halftime thinking they had a chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24263,24264,24265,24266,24267,24268,24269,24270,27,6095,29,28],"class_list":["post-39307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ali-dibba-21-central-pointe-academy","tag-bucky-mcmillan","tag-josh-holloway-23-oak-hill-academy","tag-marcus-hill-21-rockford-christian-schools","tag-pop-isaacs-22-coronado","tag-rashaun-agee","tag-ruben-dominguez-25-bilbao-basket","tag-rylan-griffen-22-richardson","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-basketball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307","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=39307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}