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Texas A&M names its Whataburger Players of the month for December

December’s Whataburger Players of the month were recently announced.

Each month, Texas A&M athletics recognizes two athletes as the Whataburger Players of the Month for their achievements in their respective sports. For December, A&M chose senior Sam Mathews from the football team and senior forward Lauren Ware from the women’s basketball team. Check out their accomplishments below for December, earning them the honor of player of the month.

Sam Mathews – December Snapshot

  • Highest Graded defensive bowl game performance – 90.2 PFF grade
  • 14 Tackles (bowl game)
  • 1.5 Tackles for Loss (bowl game)
  • 1 Interception (bowl game)

Lauren Ware – December Snapshot

  • Undefeated Team in the Month of December
  • Points Average – 12.0
  • Rebounds Average – 9.3
  • Season High Points – 19 (12/31)
  • Season High Rebounds – 16 (12/31)
  • Season High Blocks – 6 (12/18)

Congratulations to Mathews and Ware for being named December’s Whataburger Players of the Month.

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The Aggie Women’s basketball receives AP votes moving them closer to the Top 25

The Aggies hot streak is starting to earn them Top 25 votes headed into SEC play

To say year two under Head Women’s basketball coach Joni Taylor looks drastically different than year one would be an understatement.

On top of bringing in a lot of new and proven faces to the team, she’s been preaching toughness. Coach Taylor explained during SEC Days how this season was going to be much different than the last.

 “Our motto is TOUGH: Trust, Ownership, Unity, Gratefulness, and Humility. I think we became last year resilient. ”

“I think we’re coming into this year with a new confidence, with a new sense of understanding about what it takes day in and day out.”

On top of a change in Motto, she brought in several quality transfers that have played a big role in the team being 12-1 heading into SEC play. On top of only losing one game to start the season, they are riding a 10-game winning streak, with their last loss coming against Purdue back on November 16th.

Paired with Janiah Barker, three of the four transfers brought win are averaging double digits in points and Barker and Lauren Ware are a rebound away from averaging double-doubles. Below are the averages from the 5th-ranked transfer class.

Aicha Coulibaly – 11.5 points / 2.3 assists / 2.2 steals / 4.1 rebounds

Lauren Ware – 11.4 points / 2.5 blocks / 9.5 rebounds

Endyia Rogers – 10.5 points / 4.5 assists / 1.4 steals

Kyndall Hunter – injured

All these moves have been paying early dividends and the voters are finally starting to take notice. If they can keep up this pace, they no doubt will be shooting up the rankings as the competition starts to increase once SEC play starts.

Below, you can check out some of the best highlights from their last win.

The streak continues as the Aggie Womens basketball team records its 10th straight win

The Aggies ran away from the Lions in a big win at Reed Arena for their 10th straight victory

It was a career night for a few Aggies as Texas A&M defeated the A&M Commerce Lions 87-63 at Reed Arena.

After a relatively close first quarter, the Texas A&M put the clamps on the Lions, only allowing seven points in the second quarter, and they never scored over 20 points in any quarter. Lauren Ware and Janiah Barker lead the Maroon & White, dominating the paint with both notching double-doubles. Ware led the way with 19 points and 16 rebounds, both career highs. Then Barker added 19 points and 12 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season.

However, the Aggie had a very similar problem as the men’s team in their victory as well. They shot a horrible 12% from the three-point line on 17 attempts. With the lopsided rebounding advantage, the Aggies maintained the lead and gave them multiple second-chance points. That is one area they need to make sure they clean up as they head into SEC play.

After defeating Texas A&M Commerce, Coach Taylor about what she learned about her team during non-conference play.

“I think you’ve got to always try to make opponents go to plan B and I’m not sure we really did that tonight. They just missed some shots. Some of that has something to do with our defense. Obviously, we defend at a high level, but they were still able to get the looks that they wanted and when you play against teams in our conference, you’re going to pay for that. Hopefully we’ve learned some things from that. I think offensively, we did some good things that we worked on after the break and so we learned some good things from that as well. Some things we put in some tweaks we’ve made, but we’ve got to be better locked in. We can’t let people get to what they want.”

This team looks poised to make some noise when SEC play starts in a few weeks when they open against Coach Taylor’s former team, Georgia. Below, you can check out some of the best highlights from their 12th win of the season.

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The Texas A&M Women’s basketball team extends winning streak to seven

The Aggie Women’s basketball team extends their win streak to seven after beating Robert Morris at Reed Arena

Amid all the transfer portal news on the football front Head Women’s basketball coach, Joni Taylor has the team on a roll. The team currently sits at 9-1 and is on a seven-game winning streak.

Even after a dominant 67-36 win over Robert Morris Coach Taylor wasn’t pleased with the first half and felt the Colonials dictated the pace early. She made sure to let them know they needed to pick it up and the second half was much cleaner.

“Robert Morris is they do some really good stuff on offense on defense they play really hard they’re very well coached and I thought they dictated the pace…”

“…I thought we did come out in the third and fourth quarter and do a much better job of um dictating on both sides of the ball… yeah do I think we took a step in the right direction in the third and fourth quarter absolutely did we put a complete game together no…”

Once again, the transfers came up big in the win with Aicha Coulibaly dropping 16 points and Lauren Ware posting a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

The Aggies are starting to gel at a good time and should have some momentum as the move towards SEC play. Below are some highlights from the win over Robert Morris.