Texas A&M men’s basketball has learned its SEC opponents entering the second campaign under head coach Bucky McMillan.
The unveiling came on Wednesday morning, featuring mirror games against LSU, Texas and Vanderbilt, which means Aggie forward Mackenzie Mgbako will face off against his brother Ethan, who plays for the Commodores. On the home slate, Texas A&M will face Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Georgia, while traveling to Florida, Missouri, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Ole Miss and South Carolina.
In McMillan’s first season at the helm in 2025-26, the Aggies finished sixth in the conference standings with an 11-7 record in SEC play. Six of the teams on Texas A&M’s schedule this year were ranked in the top 25 of the final Associated Press Poll.
McMillan led his team full of transfer talent to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, where the Aggies were eliminated by No. 2 seed Houston. The Bucky Ball is fully installed in Bryan-College Station and has already won over Aggieland. McMillan’s high-paced, exciting brand of basketball relies on pushing the floor and suffocating opposing teams. One of the flaws of the system, especially with only one scholarship player on the roster when Texas A&M’s head coach arrived in April of 2025, was the lack of size outside of standout graduate Rashaun Agee.
That was addressed this offseason, as the Aggies hauled in the No. 18 portal class in college basketball, while also retaining former Mgbako, who missed last season due to injury. At 6-foot-9 and 200 pounds, Tennessee transfer Cade Phillips will complement Mgbako well and give Texas A&M another big man to establish physicality inside.
To replace the production lost from transfers and graduating Ags, McMillan reeled in some talented shooters like highly-touted guard PJ Haggerty, who finished top-three in the nation in scoring with Kansas State last year. LMU’s Jalen Shelley and McNeese transfer Tyshawn Archie both have high ceilings with innate abilities to knock down shots from deep.
While the talent is there for McMillan to lead his team to another magical run in year two, the SEC has no shortage of elite squads gunning for the shot to hoist the conference title.
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