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Texas A&M women’s basketball team reveals 16-game Southeastern Conference schedule

While the first three games may be extremely challenging, it’ll quickly show Aggies head coach Joni Taylor exactly what her team is made of.

After the Texas A&M men’s basketball team unveiled its 2025 SEC schedule on Tuesday, the following day belonged to the ladies.

The Aggies women’s basketball team revealed its 16-game conference slate on Wednesday. While the first three games may be extremely challenging, it’ll quickly show head coach Joni Taylor exactly what her team is made of.

Texas A&M begins SEC play with back-to-back home matchups in College Station, Jan. 2 versus Tennessee and Jan. 5 against Ole Miss. The Aggies hit the road for the next two contests, Jan. 9 at South Carolina and Jan. 12 at Oklahoma.

On Jan. 16, Texas A&M hosts Georgia. Precisely one week later, the Aggies welcome Kentucky to their land. Texas A&M travels to the bayou on Jan. 26 to face LSU. Four days after, the Aggies matchup against Arkansas.

Texas A&M starts the second half of the conference campaign on Feb. 2 versus Texas. The Aggies play at Auburn on Feb. 6. Texas A&M returns to Reed Arena on Feb. 9 to take on Mizzou. Eight days later, the Aggies travel to Tuscaloosa to for a matchup at Alabama.

On Feb. 20, Texas A&M faces Florida. The Aggies conclude their road schedule with a pair of games, Feb. 23 at Mississippi State and Feb. 27 versus Vanderbilt.

Texas A&M begins the madness by finishing the regular season at Reed Arena against Arkansas on March 2.

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Best photos from Texas A&M medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics

View some of the best photos from the Aggie medalist at from the 2024 Paris Olympics

The 2024 Paris Olympics has concluded, and the USA team ran away with 126 total medals tying China with 40 gold medals. In those 126 earned medals former Texas A&M athletes and staff captured eight medals for one of the Aggie’s best showing in Olympic history.

Joni Taylor – Women’s Basketball – Gold

Bryce Deadmon – Men’s 4x400m Relay – Gold

Shamier Little – Women’s 4x400m Relay – Gold

Austin Krajicek – Men’s Tennis Doubles – Silver

Bryce Deadmon – Mixed 4x400m Relay – Silver

Shamier Little – Mixed 4x400m Relay – Silver

Fred Kerley – Men’s 100m Dash – Bronze

Lindon Victor – Men’s Decathlon – Bronze

While the list above only includes the medalist there were a total of 22 former Aggie athletes who participated in the event representing Texas A&M well. With that being acknowledged below are some of the best photos from the Aggie medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Texas A&M HC Joni Taylor helps lead the USA Women’s basketball team to Olympic gold

Aggie head basketball coach Joni Taylor is bringing home a gold medal from the 2024 Paris Olympics

Texas A&M head women’s basketball coach Joni Taylor is no stranger to USA basketball, and this summer, she joined the staff of the 2024 Olympic team.

As the USA basketball coach before her Olympic run, she is 21-0 with three gold medals in the FIBA circuit and ran a few of the National Team Spring mini camps. So, in February, she was asked what she was looking for specifically and her answer was simple.

“Winning a gold medal. That is the plan that is the only plan”

While the game came down to the wire, the USA Women’s basketball team won for a staggering eighth consecutive Olympic gold with a 67-66 victory over France. With that win, the team extended its Olympic win streak to 61 in a row, not having lost a game since 1992.

Congratulations to Coach Taylor for adding an Olympic gold medal to her trophy case.

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Montgomery PG Chaney Spencer commits to Texas A&M Womens basketball

Coach Joni Taylor gets some good news from Aggieland by landing her first 2025 commitment

While helping the USA Women’s basketball team work towards another gold medal, Texas A&M head coach Joni Taylor receives her first commitment for the 2025 class. Lake Creek HS point guard Chaney Spencer announced via social media that she would be headed to A&M to continue her basketball journey.

The 5’9″ guard is a solid all-around player who earned First Team All-District, All-Region, and Power 17U Honorable Mention. She is a scrappy guard who can score at all three levels and has the vision to distribute the ball to put her teammates in great scoring positions.

While she might not have an immediate impact when she gets to Bryan-College Station, she has all the tools to get some playing time as she continues to develop.

Below, you can view her announcement on “X”.

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21 Aggies are representing Texas A&M at 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris

Texas A&M is being represented on the world’s biggest stage over the next few weeks as 21 Aggies compete in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.

Texas A&M Athletics are being represented on the world’s biggest stage over the next few weeks as 21 Aggies compete in the Summer Olympic Games hosted in Paris, France.

2024 marks the fifth consecutive Olympics that have included at least 17 athletes or coaches with ties to College Station. Two current students and one coach represent Texas A&M in this year’s games: senior swimmer Aviv Barzelay, freshman diver Jaxon Bowshire and women’s basketball head coach Joni Taylor.

Ten Aggies are competing in track & field, six in swimming, two in diving and tennis, respectively, and one in basketball. The track & field athletes are: Bryce Deadmon, Lamara Distin, Fred Kerley, Shamier Little, Maggie Malone-Hardin, Brandon Miller, Tahar Triki, Lindon Victor, Jacob Wooten and Charokee Young.

The swimmers are: Barzelay, Shaine Casas, McKenna DeBever, Béryl Gastaldello, Sydney Pickrem and Jing Wen Quah. The divers are: Bowshire and Kurtis Mathews. The tennis players are: Hady Habib and Austin Krajicek.

Eleven countries are represented by Texas A&M: United States, Australia, Jamaica, Algeria, Canada, France, Grenada, Israel, Lebanon, Peru and Singapore.

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Texas A&M Aggie forward Janiah Barker has found a new home

After spending some time in the transfer portal Aggie forward Janiah Barker with be headed to the west coast

It’s official: Texas A&M star forward Janiah Barker has committed to play for Coach Cori Close at UCLA. When Barker entered the portal with a do-not-contact declaration, there was some hope that she might withdraw her name. Her relationship with Coach Joni Taylor was a strong one, and she even changed her commitment from Georgia to A&M when Coach Taylor took the job.

However, after a few injuries over the last two seasons, including a concussion, followed by an early exit from the NCAA tournament, Barker decided to get a new start on the West Coast. She is a strong scorer with a solid defense who will bring some experience to a UCLA team that lost a lot of talent this year.

We never like to see talent leave Aggieland, but we appreciate the time she was here representing the Maroon & White.

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Texas A&M HC Joni Tayor lands former LSU guard through the transfer portal

Coach Joni Talyor lands her first transfer for the 2025 season with former LSU guard Janae Kent

The transfer portal is alive and well for college basketball and thousands of players are looking for new opportunities. Texas A&M head coach Joni Taylor has seen her share of players enter the portal and was dealt a blow when her top scoring threat for next season, Janiah Baker, along with four other Aggies, entered the portal.

Needing to bring in some experience she is in the market to find a few replacements and she was able to get her first commit in former LSU guard Janae Kent. It was reported by Talia Goodman on April 12 that Kent intended to transfer following Hailey Van Lith and Angelica Velez out of the door.

Kent is a former top-100 player out of high school and saw action in all 32 games last season. While she does need some development, only averaging 8 minutes a game, getting experience playing under a championship-winning coach and practicing against WNBA-caliber players every day should pay dividends.

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Join us in welcoming Janae Kent to Aggieland. We wish her a healthy and successful career at Texas A&M.

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‘Tremendous year’: Texas A&M coach Joni Taylor reflects on loss vs. Nebraska in NCAA Tournament

“You’re looking at a team who won two conference games last year, nine games total. In year two we’re sitting here at the NCAA Tournament.”

The Texas A&M women’s basketball team narrowly lost to Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night in Corvallis, Oregon.

After the loss, Aggies head coach Joni Taylor reflected on the progress that her team made this season.

“Tough, tough game. I’m really proud of our team’s fight to come back and take the lead being down as much as we were going into halftime and the third quarter,” Taylor recalled. “We’ve had a sense of resilience and fight all year long and really proud of how we handled ourselves and came back in the game. Obviously, Nebraska is a really good team, it came down to the end and they made more plays than we did.

“I don’t want to lose sight of the step we made from year one to year two in our program. You’re looking at a team who won two conference games last year, nine games total. In year two we’re sitting here at the NCAA Tournament, which was one of the goals for our program. So I don’t want how this game ended to overshadow the tremendous year that we had in year two of our program. We have our team returning with the exception of very few, so I’m really excited about the future of our program.

“Hats off to Nebraska, they made more plays than we did, they were really good tonight. We just didn’t have enough time on the clock to win the game.”

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Texas A&M women’s basketball coach Joni Taylor previews matchup vs. Nebraska in NCAA Tournament

“They just have weapons all over the floor and it makes it hard to double because they can hit you from three,” Taylor proclaimed Thursday.

In the second of two installments of the Trev Alberts Invitational, the Texas A&M women’s basketball team faces Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night.

The Aggies enter March Madness as the No. 11 seed in the Albany 1 Region versus the No. 6 Cornhuskers. Texas A&M is currently 19-12 overall and Nebraska enters the contest at 22-11. Aggies head coach Joni Taylor spoke to the media on Thursday to preview the matchup.

“They put five scorers on the floor,” Taylor said. “You look at their starters and four out of five make the all-tournament team in some way whether its freshman of the year, first team, all freshman team. They’re extremely talented, play with great pace and also slow you down, pound it inside. They just have weapons all over the floor and it makes it hard to double because they can hit you from three.

“They just stretch you defensively and then offensively they make it very hard as well. In my opinion from the film that I’ve watched, they are as good defensively as they are offensively and I don’t think they get enough credit for how good they are defensively.”

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Head coach Joni Taylor gets Texas A&M women’s basketball back to the NCAA Tournament in year two

The Texas A&M women’s team makes the NCAA Tournament for the first time in since 2021

The SEC is a challenging gauntlet in all of Women’s NCAA basketball, with eight teams making the NCAA Tournament and three making the WBIT Tournament, with a total of 11 teams making it to the postseason. For the first time since 2021, the Texas A&M Aggie women’s basketball team will be back in the NCAA tournament.

The Aggies ended the season at 19-12, doubling their win total from last season and earning a No. 22 seed where they will face No. 6 seed Nebraska in the Albany 1 region on March 22. This talented and determined A&M team in the big dance marks the first time since 2018 that the women’s and men’s teams will be in the postseason.

Unsurprisingly, with views being the primary objective for the NCAA, they match both teams against Nebraska just a few days after Texas A&M hires Trev Alberts away from Nebraska.

Texas A&M will face Nebraska on Friday, March 22 at 9;30 p.m. in Corvallis, Oregon. The game time and watch options will be announced later this week.

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