Mizzou Basketball Preview: Tigers travel to take on Texas A&M

The Texas A&M Aggies are looking to gain some respectability in the college basketball. The Aggie's are 10-5 overall and 2-0 in SEC play. Missouri is 20-1 and hasn't lost to a team in KenPom Top-50. They split the season series last year with a narrow margin of victory.

Missouri's team is led by Nick Honor (9.7 PPG), Tre Gomillion (5.5 Ppg), D’Moi Hodge (15.9 POG), Ronnie DeGray III (2.4 PUG), Kobe Brown (SR; 15. 5 PAG), DeAndre Gholston (10.8 P PG), Noah Carter ( 10. 7 PGA), Sean East II (8.3 PSG).

Wade Taylor IV, Tyrece Radford, Dexter Dennis, Henry Coleman III, Julius Marble, Andre Gordon and Andersson Garcia are the key players for Texas A&M. Manny Obaseki is out for 4-6 weeks with a fractured pinkie.

Mizzou basketball team travels to take on Texas A&M.

Texas A&M is a Top-50 offense and a top-100 defense. They are also a good free-throw shooting team. Their top two scorers are Wade Taylor IV and Tyrece Radford. Henry Coleman III and Julius Marble are their main post players. Dexter Dennis is their defensive player. They play at Missouri on Saturday. The game is at 7 pm. It is the first meeting between the two teams. Texas A & M play each other in the SEC. Mizzou won the previous meeting. This is also the only meeting of the teams in which Texas A and M have won.

Mizzou averages 9.7 three-pointers per game. Texas A&M cannot defend the three point line. Murray State, Colorado and Boise State followed a similar game plan in their victories over Texas a&m. The Tigers need to expose the Aggies' three points defense.

Mizzou averages 18.3 fouls per game. The Tigers will need to avoid foul trouble to prevent another SEC loss. Texas A&M's senior forward, Brown, has been limited in back-to-back games due to early foul problems.

Coleman and Taylor are the main threats for Texas A&M. If Mizzou can take them out for stretches of the game, the path to victory becomes easier. Solomon Washington could spark the offense with three-point attempts. Honor, Gholston, Hodge, DeGray/Brown, Radford and Marble will have to prevent an unlikely hero from altering the course of a game.

Mizzou basketball team travels to take on Texas A&M. Hodge is nine points shy of the 1,000-point club. Texas a&m is a quality opponent with momentum. The game will come down to two things within the first 10 minutes: Mizzouri's fouls and their three-pointer makes.