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The Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team is the official men's Basketball team at Texas A&M University . On 10 April 2007, Mark Turgeon replaced Billy Gillispie as the head men's Basketball Coach .1 The Aggies play home games at Reed Arena , a 12,500-capacity arena in College Station , Texas on the campus of Texas A&M University. In the 2006-07 season, Texas A&M was the only program in the Big 12 Conference to have both men's and women's teams competing in the NCAA Tournament - the men as a 3 seed and the women as a 4 seed.23 HISTORY Metcalf era Shelby Metcalf took over the A&M basketball program in 1963 . His impact was immediate, winning the Southwest Conference with a 13-1 conference record for Texas A&M's first title in 13 years. In his 26 years as head coach at Texas A&M, he won six Southwest Conference titles, two Southwest Conference tournament titles, and led A&M to six NCAA Tournament and four NIT appearances. He was fired by former A&M football player and then-athletic director John David Crow after coaching 19 games of the 1989-1990 season. When asked by the media what happened between the two, Metcalf remarked, "I made a comment that I didn't think John David was all that bright. And I thought I was being generous." Shelby finished his career at A&M with an overall record of 438-306, making him the all-time winningest men's basketball coach in Southwest Conference history. Metcalf season records
"The Dark Ages" After Metcalf was fired, A&M went through the next fourteen years making only one postseason appearance ( 1994 NIT ), finished above .500 in conference play only twice, and posted an overall record of .500 or above only twice. John Thornton finished out the 1990 season as head coach after Metcalf was fired. Soon after, Kermit Davis, Jr. was hired prior to the 1990-91 season. He resigned after posting a record of 8-21 and Texas A&M began investigating recruiting violations by Davis.4 Tony Barone was hired from Creighton in 1991 to replace Davis. Barone lasted seven years as head coach of the program, finishing below .500 six times. It was in 1994 that he finished with a 10-4 league record for 2nd place in the Southwest Conference and was invited to the NIT. After Barone finished last in the Big 12 Conference in 1998 , Melvin Watkins was hired out of UNC-Charlotte . While a good recruiter, Watkins never finished above seventh in the Big 12. He resigned after going winless (0-16) in conference play in 2004 .5 Davis, Barone, Watkins season records Modern resurgence The most recent head coach of the program, Billy Gillispie , was hired out of UTEP after leading the Miners to an NCAA Tournament appearance and having the largest turnaround of any team in the nation, from 6-24 in 2002-03 to 24-8 in 2003-04. The Aggies, though picked by Big 12 coaches to finish last in the conference, immediately improved under Gillispie, winning their first 10 games and finishing at 21-10, 8-8 in conference. Along the way, the team defeated ranked, in-state rivals Texas and Texas Tech . The team earned an NIT bid, Texas A&M's first postseason in 11 years, reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament. Gillispie's second year featured further improvement, with the Aggies defeating three ranked opponents in Colorado , Texas, and Syracuse . The team finished with a league record of 10-6 and a win in the Big 12 Tournament, Texas A&M's first since the conference first began play in 1996-97. The Aggies reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1987 as a 12-seed, upsetting fifth-seed Syracuse in the first round. The Aggies fell in the second round to LSU . In 2007, as Gillispie's team began to gel, A&M was ranked as high as #10 in the pre-season polls. Despite early-season losses to LSU and UCLA , the Aggies accomplished several feats not seen in years by the Aggies, including a win at Allen Fieldhouse over then-#6 Kansas , a first for a Big 12 South team since the conference was formed. They suffered three losses in conference play, a sweep by Texas Tech and a double-overtime loss to a Kevin Durant -led Texas in Austin, and were able to secure the #2 seed in the Big 12 Tournament . The Aggies lost in the quarterfinals to Oklahoma State . The Aggies received a #3 seed in the 2007 NCAA championship tournament, their highest seed ever. In the postseason, the Aggies achieved a #9 ranking by the Associated Press and ESPN / USA Today coaches polls, the highest ranking ever attained in school history.6 On April 6, 2007, Gillispie resigned his position as head coach at Texas A&M to coach at the , head coach of Wichita State University , was announced as the new men's basketball head coach at A&M. Gillispie, Turgeon season records NOTABLE PLAYERS 2006-07 SCHEDULE AND RESULTS SEE ALSO Texas A&M Aggies Women's Basketball REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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