It didn’t take long for first-year coach Buzz Williams to put his imprint on the Texas A&M basketball program. Williams, previously a success at Marquette and Virginia Tech, saw his team get off to a rough start early in the 2019-20 season; the Aggies started the season 3-5, including a loss to a Fairfield team that would finish 12-20, and limped into SEC play with three-point home wins over the likes of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Texas Southern. In other words, this didn’t look like a team that would do much against an 18-game SEC schedule.
Instead, the Aggies, against considerable odds, went 10-8.