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2007 Texas A&M Basketball Predictions & Season
Preview
Texas A&M lost a once in a lifetime talent in Acie Law.
How will the Aggies do going forward without their
All-American point guard. Jimmy’s 2007 Texas A&M
Aggies predictions provides the answer.
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Just because Law is out and head coach Billy Gillispie is gone does not mean
that the Aggies are done for. Mark Turgeon inherits three returning starters, a
star recruit (7-footer DeAndre Jordan), and several key roll players to put an
even more athletic group on the floor.
Before last season, the Aggies had never before made back-to-back NCAA
Tournament appearances. If sophomore Donald Sloan can hold his own at the point
and freshman Jordan lives up to the hype, the Aggies will pull off the trifecta.
And let’s face it, Turgeon is no slouch. He has averaged 20.8 wins per season
the past 5 seasons at Wichita State.
Up front, the Aggies will get power forward Joseph Jones back. When he pulled
his name out of the NBA draft, he became the Aggies’ leading returning scorer at
13.4 points per game as well as the leading returning rebounder. Jones and
freshman center DeAndre Jordan should make up one of the highest scoring
frontcourts in the conference. The Aggies will need to take advantage as neither
will be around next season. Jones is a senior and Jordan will be NBA bound.
In the backcourt, Law’s leadership will be impossible to replace. And even
though Sloan may be stronger and more athletic, he doesn’t appear to have the
court savvy to do what Law did. He was the Aggies’ top scorer in 20 games off
the bench last season so there is no doubt that this kid can fill it up, but he
won’t be the same kind of playmaker that Law was.
The bottom line is that the Aggies use their athleticism to torture teams
defensively and that’s what makes them so tough. Texas A&M led the Big 12 in
eight statistical categories last season. The three big ones were scoring
defense (holding opponents under 60 points per game), field goal percentage
(shooting nearly 50 percent from the field), and field goal percentage defense
(holding opponents well under 40 percent shooting). Expect Turgeon to continue
to have this team applying pressure.
It will be unlikely that A&M is able to duplicate their school-best 27 wins that
they tallied a year ago and a Sweet 16 performance will be tough to repeat, but
neither is out of the question. That’s how much we believe in this team’s
defensive ability. We have the Aggies chalked up to get to round two of the Big
Dance this season.
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