In the first-ever meeting of the top 10 teams in College Station history, No. 5 Alabama defeated No. 10 Texas A&M 94-88 on Saturday night, led by 27 points from Mark Sears and 15 from Aden Holloway.
The Crimson Tide (14-2, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) never trailed in winning their eighth straight game. Alabama ended A&M’s nine-game victory run, the longest by the Aggies (13-3, 2-1) since the 2015-16 squad won 10 consecutive.
Guard Zhuric Phelps led the Aggies w
ith 24 points. Texas A&M senior guard Wade Taylor IV missed his second consecutive game with an undisclosed injury. Alabama center Clifford Omoruyi missed the second of two free shots with 37 seconds remaining with the Crimson Tide leading 88-84. But teammate Chris Youngblood grabbed the rebound and hit both his free throws to give Alabama a 90-84 advantage. After Brian Williams (1995), Sears is the second player from Alabama to record 1,500 points, 300 assists, and 200 3-pointers in a career.
Texas A&M: The Aggies missed out on a comeback victory of 80-78 at No. 17 Oklahoma on Wednesday, and they could have won if they could have been respectable from the free-throw line against the Crimson Tide. The Aggies shot 58% (28 of 48) from the line, while Alabama was 27 of 40. Alabama: The Crimson Tide had won their last four games by an average of 25 points, but the Aggies put up a better fight and stayed in the game for the majority of the game, helped by a boisterous crowd.
With just under fifteen minutes left in the game, Holloway made a 3-pointer to give the Crimson Tide an eight-point lead after A&M’s Phelps missed a jump jumper, putting them ahead 56-51.
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