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Texas A&M women’s basketball takes down No. 11 Kentucky at Reed Arena

Texas A&M women’s stuns the Kentucky Wildcats in a 61-55 upset victory for their third SEC victory

The Texas A&M women’s basketball team has been full of ups and downs with both teetering on the extreme sides of both. Thursday night was the highest of the highs when they kicked off No. 11 Kentucky giving them their first SEC loss of the season.

Defense was the name of the game, allowing the Aggies to pull away late in the fourth quarter to upset the Wildcats 61-55 in front of the crowd at Reed Arena. Coming to the night Kentucky was averaging 83.2 points a game in league play, but A&M clamped down forcing them to shoot an abysmal .313 from the field and an even worse .056 from the three-point line.

A&M would outscore KU 36-25 to close the game comfortably for their second top-25 win in January. It’s been a rough season but when they are hitting all cylinders, they are a solid team that can up a fight against most teams in the nation.

GAME NOTES:

  • Aicha Coulibaly 21 points and 7 rebounds
  • 42.9% FG / 33.3% 3PT / 64.3% FT

Texas A&M will go on the road to face LSU on Jan. 26 at 3:00p.m. CST. The game can be watched on the SEC Network.

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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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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 receive an 11-seed in the NCAA Tournament, facing 6-seed Nebraska

the Aggie Women have earned an 11-seed in the NCAA Tournament, and will face 6-seed Nebraska in Corvallis, Oregon

The irony is not lost on us, as Texas A&M (19-12) has received a bid to the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball Tournament. It will face the 6-seed Nebraska Cornhuskers, the same matchup for both men’s teams in the NCAA Tournament, which was announced just two hours prior.

The matchup will occur in Regional 1 in Albany, as the first game will occur in Corvallis, Oregon. New Texas A&M athletic director Trev Alberts, who took a lateral promotion from Nebraska, must laugh at what both committees have conjured up.

After dealing with plenty of adversity during the preseason, including injuries to senior guard Aicha Coulibaly, the team’s leading scorer, A&M found their stride late, needing to win one game in the SEC Tournament to secure a bid to the Big Dance.

After defeating Mississippi State, Coulibaly and sophomore forward Janiah Barker went toe to toe with No. 1-overall seeded South Carolina but couldn’t finish the job in the Quarterfinal matchup, losing 79-68. Knowing their matchup, this team is healthy and determined and has a chance to make some news in a favorable bracket.

The date and time of the game are still unknown, but we will update this article when they become public.

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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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‘Turnovers is what made was the game’ Aicha Coulibaly and Endyia Rogers answer questions in preview of the Auburn game

Here’s what Aggies Aicha Coulibaly and Endyia Rogers had to say during the Auburn matchup preview.

Texas A&M (12-2, 0-1) returns home to face the Auburn Tigers (11-3, 0-1) on Sunday afternoon.

They are looking to move on from their first loss since November 16th, when they dropped their SEC opener 54-50 to Coach Joni Taylor’s former team, the Georgia Bulldogs. It was a wake-up call and they realized turnovers in conference play will not be as easy to come back against.

“it was us doing things that were very uncharacteristic whether it was traveling passing the ball to people we think they’re there they’re not there it was just us that those are things that we can fix we don’t really turn the ball over but yesterday they just caught us on a bad day” – Endyia Rogers

The Aggies will have a chance to right the ship and get their first SEC win on the season. Below, you can watch the full presser Q&A with Aicha Coulibaly and Endyia Rogers.

 

 

Texas A&M will return to Reed Arena on January 7 at 3:00 pm CT to host the Auburn Tigers.

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‘ We still need to figure out how to learn to win ‘Coach Joni Taylor answers questions in preview of the Auburn game

Here’s what Texas A&M Head Coach Joni Taylor had to say during the Auburn matchup preview.

Texas A&M (12-2, 0-1) returns home to face the Auburn Tigers (11-3, 0-1) on Sunday afternoon.

The Aggies are looking to move on from their first loss since November 16th, when they dropped their SEC opener 54-50 to Coach Joni Taylor’s former team, the Georgia Bulldogs. The Aggie shooting woes hit them hard in the second half of that game, but she pointed out that they still need to learn how to play a complete game no matter the issues that might arise because SEC play is a different ball game.

“…we gave up over 20 points against Commerce when we played on the 31st and I told our team after that game I don’t care what the score looks like if you give up that many points in the SEC game you will not recover from it”

The Aggies will be able to right the ship and get their first SEC win on the season. Below, you can watch the full presser Q&A with Coach Joni Taylor.

 

Texas A&M will return to Reed Arena on January 7 at 3:00 pm CT to host the Auburn Tigers.

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