There's a pretty good chance that A&M will be like 10-1 or 9-2 when they start conference play against Kansas on the fifth of January. Granted, they've played a bunch of scrubs so far (they're 6-0), and they were 7-4 and 8-3 before conference play the last two seasons.
A&M's basketball record since Big 12 play began in '97:
1997- 9-18, 3-13
1998- 7-20, 1-15
1999- 12-15, 5-11
2000- 8-20, 4-12
2001- 10-20, 3-13
2002- 9-22, 3-13
2003- 14-14, 6-10
2004- 7-21, 0-16
So, my question is why Aggie Nation doesn't care about hoops? They've arguably have the best fans around for football, draw good baseball crowds, and even lead the nation in attendance for women's soccer.
I'm not talking , I am just genuinely curious how losing at such a clip is tolerated in College Station, especially with UT and Tech's recent successes.
The Aggie Nation just needs a reason to believe, and they'll be there. A&M hasn't really had anything to talk about in hoops since about '82.
The other problem is the yell leaders try to force the football traditions from Kyle onto the basketball environment at Reed. A lot of the students are sick of it, but the administration doesn't have the balls to tell the yell leaders it's time for them to join the student body in the stands.
I think it was in '87 when A&M went to the SWC tourney as the bottom seed and ended up winning the thing and going to the NCAA's...aside from that...not much else. I think we should ask Kori if we can have a college hoops forum. Now that college basketball season is here, I think it would be fun.
Billy Gillespy will have this team in top 25 by end of next year.
ha ha
I don't know Jim....the Big XII is going to be tough.
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