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USA Today
13 hours ago
- Business
- USA Today
Texas A&M will retain key assistant on HC Bucky McMillan's 2025 staff
Texas A&M will retain key assistant on HC Bucky McMillan's 2025 staff Bucky McMillan has officially retained Assistant Director of Operations Shane Sinon per release. Served as Buzz Williams' assistant, and did a lot of the day-to-day tasks for the head coach as well as assistant in traveling and inventory for the Aggies. — Jaxson Callaway (AT) (@AggiesToday) June 9, 2025 New Texas A&M basketball head coach Bucky McMillan has assembled his 2025 coaching staff this offseason, adding five veteran coaches, led by Mitch Cole, Kyle Keller, and TJ Cleveland, who all bring a blend of experience and recruiting expertise to the 2025 roster. While most of the former head coach Buzz Williams' 2024 coaching staff is expected to join Maryland, one key assistant will reportedly stay in College Station under McMillan. According to Texas A&M's media team, Shane Sinon, one of the lesser-known names on the coaching staff, who served as a graduate assistant under Williams last season, will now serve as McMillan's Assistant Director of Operations. According to Jaxson Callaway (AggiesToday), Sinon served as Buzz Williams' day-to-day assistant, also assisting in traveling and inventory for the program last season. Sinon appears to be a rising star in the coaching ranks and will serve under current Director of Operations Warren Fitzpatrick, assisting with team operations that include recruiting, finances, and media-based situations. This will likely finish out Texas A&M's 2025 basketball staff, which Bucky McMillan will rely on during his inaugural season and beyond. Again, while Sinon is now a well-known name, it's the lesser-known assistants who are putting in the work behind the scenes. Contact/Follow us @AggiesWire on X and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Texas A&M news, notes and opinions. Follow Cameron on X: @CameronOhnysty.
Yahoo
20-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Texas A&M basketball down to 1 scholarship player after Buzz Williams' departure
Texas A&M basketball down to 1 scholarship player after Buzz Williams' departure And then there was one. Texas A&M men's basketball has a single scholarship player on its roster thanks to a string of Aggies entering the transfer portal. The veteran-laden Aggies were already set to lose eight players anyway, but that was before they lost their head coach. Advertisement Buzz Williams' decision this week to take the Maryland coaching job led to at least four players transferring. The latest is reportedly freshman George Turkson Jr., a three-star recruit coming out of high school in Massachusetts who didn't appear in any games this season. MORE A&M: Aggies' softball midseason grades full of As and Bs MORE A&M: Why Buzz Williams left; what Aggies may seek in next men's basketball coach Chris McDermott, a freshman forward who played just four minutes against SEC opponents, is the lone player on scholarship. Whomever is hired as head coach will have to fill out close to a dozen roster spots. Advertisement Many of the transfers played sparingly, but Solomon Washington and Pharrel Payne were fixtures in the lineup for a team that won 23 games, including an NCAA Tournament matchup again Yale. The junior forwards have reportedly entered into the portal. Texas A&M has a three-person recruiting class signed for 2025. Jeremiah Green is a four-star guard, according to 247Sports, while Aaron Glass is a three-star guard and Jasir Rencher is a three-wing forward. Texas A&M 2024-25 roster: Where are they now Jace Carter (33 games played): Graduating. Henry Coleman III (34 games played): Graduating. Rob Dockery (one game played): Left the team in November. Advertisement Andersson Garcia (34 games played): Graduating Hayden Hefner (32 games played): Graduating Jaelyn Lee (six games played): Transfer portal. Chris McDermott (seven games played): Still on roster. Andre Mills: Transfer portal. Manny Obaseki (34 games played): Graduating. Pharrel Payne (34 games played): Transfer portal. Zhuric Phelps (33 games played): Graduating. Janusz Ratowski: Transfer portal. Wade Taylor IV (30 games played): Graduating. George Turkson Jr: Transfer portal. Solomon Washington (32 games played): Transfer portal. CJ Wilcher (34 games played): Graduating. This story will be updated. Follow the American-Statesman on Facebook and X for more. Your subscription makes work like this possible. Access all of our best content with this tremendous offer. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Buzz Williams move to Maryland leads to rush of Texas A&M transfers
New York Times
05-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Texas A&M trounces top-ranked Auburn: How Aggies wore down Tigers to snag first ever win over No. 1 team
Turns out, nobody's immune from a hangover. Not even the No. 1 team in the country. Which explains how top-ranked Auburn — which clinched its second SEC regular-season title in the last four seasons on Saturday — stumbled only days later at No. 22 Texas A&M, dropping its third game all season, 83-72. Advertisement And for the reeling Aggies, who entered Tuesday night having lost four straight? The program's first win ever over the nation's No. 1 team (0-9 previously) couldn't have come at a better time. It's not like Buzz Williams' team stole this one at the buzzer, either. The exact opposite; Texas A&M led wire-to-wire, with its aggressive defense — which entered the game eighth nationally in adjusted efficiency, per KenPom — visibly exhausting Auburn all night. And while the Tigers still wound up scoring 72 points, that's far off their average of 85.4, the fifth-highest in Division-I. If anything, this game was a testament to Texas A&M's 'kamikaze' play style, which clearly wore down the shorthanded Tigers. Auburn point guard Denver Jones — an every-game starter and double-digit scorer — missed his first contest all season with an ankle injury he suffered Saturday versus Kentucky, and National Player of the Year contender Johni Broome briefly exited the game in the first half with an apparent shoulder injury. (Broome returned, but only finished with eight points on four-of-nine shooting, the third time this season he's finished a game only scoring single-digits.) But those injuries were not why Auburn lost — or rather, why Texas A&M won. The Aggies asserted their will in the best way possible, with the nation's best offensive rebounding team gobbling up 24 offensive boards, and often making the most of second-chance opportunities; A&M's 29 second-chance points were its second most in a game this season, and one of the few areas where the SEC champs are somewhat susceptible. It also helped that Williams' team — whose offense often oscillates between 'painful to watch' and 'gritty' — shot the ball better than usual. Texas A&M entered Tuesday night making just 30.6 percent of its 3s this season, 'good' for 326th nationally, but instead made nine 3s versus Auburn, only the eighth time this season it's made that many. Four drains a 3👌#GigEm — Texas A&M Basketball (@aggiembk) March 5, 2025 Auburn even attempted going zone at times, but the Aggies — led by Zhuric Phelps' team-best 19 points, and Wade Tayor IV's 16 — kept bombing away, often with success. As for Auburn, the loss in and of itself isn't a concern…but getting whole again certainly is. Broome's shoulder injury, which initially looked more serious, turned out not to be significant enough to hold him out, but the Tigers aren't going anywhere this postseason if he's less than 100 percent; that immediately becomes the team's priority. And Jones, the team's best 3-point shooter and floor general, was sorely missed, too. The 6-foot-4 guard struggled in the team's previous two losses — going for two combined points on zero-for-eight shooting against Duke and Florida — and it now seems apparent how integral he is to Auburn's postseason ambitions. Advertisement With Broome struggling, freshman guard Tahaad Pettiford again led the Tigers in scoring with 19 points, with all six of his made baskets coming from 3. Chad Baker-Mazara chipped in 15, as well, and Miles Kelly — who exploded for 30 points and nine made 3s versus Kentucky on Saturday — added 12.
