and he finishes with 27

the #1 team in the country opens their season and ESPN cbball page has no mention of it?

PG: J'Covan Brown
SG: Avery Bradley
SF: Jordan Hamilton
PF: Damion James
C: Dexter Pittman

Is this Texas' best starting five?
Barnes has been clear that he's going to be less forgiving of Senior mistakes this season. He knows the young guys will be a bit anxious and has already mentioned that Hamilton is learning he can impact the game by ways other than shooting.

didn't you hear Patterson led Calipari to his first win?

that ESPN Lead made me want to rape a baby seal

A&M @ SMU Monday, I'm probably going, anyone else in the Dallas area going to be there?

We started off nicely yesterday, but from all accounts Angelo State was really weak in the post, which is going to be one of our strong points this year. Game wasn't on TV so I tried to listen to the radio broadcast, and surprise, Dave South is even more impossible to understand during a basketball game.

David Loubeau was yanked off the starting-5 and responded, putting up 20 & 9 on only 14 shots. Every year we struggle with at least 1 weak ass out-of-conference game, wouldn't be surprised at all if it's Monday, but a lot of people think it will be against the Citadel, who I guess were pretty good last year.

Damion James and Dexter Pittman leave the game w 8 min left a combined 17-20 with 42 pts vs USC Irvine. Hamilton and Bradley both in double figures.

Defense has been high energy the whole game, and it looks like TX is trying to push the transition offense against an obviously over matched UC Irvine.

As I'm typing this TX has 4 freshman and Gary Johnson on the floor w 4 minutes left.

J'Covan Brown had 5 turnovers and 0 assists.

Varez Ward for PG.

Went to A&M SMU tonight in Dallas, crowd was like 80% Aggies and until SMU made a 2nd half run, was crazy silent for a college basketball game. They did a nice job of packing in the lane and forcing up to beat them from outside. We finally got their starters in foul trouble and were able to get to the rim late in the 2nd half, pulling away, up by nearly 20 at one point (4 point game with 8 minutes left) before winning by 12.

Our team is athletic, but a bit out of control. We do a good job of taking what the defense gives us and the offense was patient, working the ball around looking to attack the zone. Ultimately had we shot the ball well it would never have been in doubt.

OU better redeem themselves from the awful football season.

Spenda,

Did you watch Clemson against that helpless Liberty team? The tigers are solid and can definitely hit the 3, but man that Liberty team looked lost. I hope the Ag's can give em' a better challenge.

Ya Aggie faithful are definitely worried about the 76challenge, here are the teams:

West Virginia -- currently ranked 8th
Butler -- 11th
Clemson -- 22nd
Minnesota -- 24th
A&M/UCLA/LBSU/Portland

Being called one of the toughest tournaments of the season, 6 NCAA teams from last year

sick egg-layage Sooners

We pwn purple today. I'd rather beat TCU in football, but I'll take this.

Three team conference?

gig'em

Nice win over Clemson, I guess it's as much as of a consolation as you can get for the football game.

UT's loss of Varez Ward is huge.

Uh huh. J'Covan better get his head and his ass wired right with a quickness, we've got some major tests before we even get into the conference schedule.

Nebraska playing a close one at USC in front of 42 people. It's nice to see the Huskers with a couple of guys over 6' 6" this year. they actually pass the ball down to the post.

I really like Doc Sadler as a coach. The offense is patient and works the ball to find a good shot, and they play very tough D. We won't have the talent to challenge KU or Texas, but we'll play everyone close.

Two out of three against TOP-20 opponents (single digit loss to 9th ranked team in the nation), yea I'll take that, especially b/c Huggins won game 2, instead of the players. I think it's about time people start recognizing Mark Turgeon and A&M as a legit top-25 team every year.

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hah I'll let you enjoy your 6-0 start and wait til Big12 play to bash your OOC scheduling.

Jayhawks and Horns #1 and #2
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings

Aggies in top 25 and Cowboys just on the fringe.

ya sorry JP, pokes 26th in both polls, talk about a tease

If they can knock off Tulsa at TU and then a win vs. UTSA, they should be in the top 25. I think they should be there by the time conference play starts.

I went to KU's game against a lowly Tennessee Tech team and that was a lot of fun to watch. Thomas Robinson (frosh) is an absolute beast of an 18 year old, too bad it looks like he's going to be playing behind the twins for now. Hopefully once we get into conference play he'll get more playing time. We scored 112 points after only scoring i think 6 points in the first couple minutes of play. It was highest point total in Self's tenure and they made it look so easy, but again, Tenn. Tech is a pretty bad team.

Kansas at Texas, 02/08/10, 8 pm at the Erwin Center. Might have to make the drive over from Houston for that one, could be epic.

Kansas nearly set the record for most unanswered points tonight. 36 in a row.