SEC Basketball Season Preview: Texas A&M

Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports Date: February 19, 2022 (in Nashville)

Time: 5:00 PM CT (SEC Network)

Last year: 8-10 (2-8 SEC), 137th in KenPom

Tom’s Prediction: 13th in SEC

Head Coach

Buzz Williams seems to know what he’s doing. In six years at Marquette, he went to five NCAA Tournaments, culminating in an Elite Eight run in 2013, and had a record of 139-69. In five years at Virginia Tech, taking over a much worse situation, he had a 100-69 record and made the NCAA Tournament in each of his last three years with a Sweet Sixteen run in 2019.

And then he took the Texas A&M job. The situation he inherited was somewhere in between Marquette and Virginia Tech — sure, the Aggies were coming…