Wade Taylor IV scored 17 points and became Texas A&M’s highest scorer leader of all time.
BATON ROUGE, LA. – Wade Taylor IV scored 17 points and became Texas A&M’s highest scorer leader of all time.
Aggies (22-9, 11-7 Southeastern) emerged from the upset of No. 1 Auburn on Tuesday.
Taylor surpassed Bernard King, who scored 1,990 between 1999 and 2003, earning 1,999 points in four seasons with the Aggies.
Texas A&M, one of the nation’s leading offensive rebounding teams, worked in the second half after converting to 10 points. The Aggies finished with 14 offensive rebounds and 17 second chance points.
The Jordan Sears led LSU (14-17, 3-15) with 21 points.
Texas A&M: Aggies senior guard Taylor missed three of his first four-second game after a knee injury, but is key to his team’s undippited postseason run. Taylor, who averaged 15.4 points in the LSU vs. 8 career game, recorded 11 of Saturday’s A&M’s first 15 points (including three of the three pointers) at opening 5:11.
LSU: The Tigers’ fifth year senior transfer guard Sears can blow very hot or very cold.
In a 15-3 A&M rally that beat a 34-34 tie and gave the Aggies a 49-37 lead at the first 10:30 of the second half, A&M grabbed seven offensive rebounds and scored 11 second chance points.
The Aggies overtook the Tigers 28-13 in the second half, finishing with a 42-27 advantage.
LSU is set as the 15th place seed in the Nashville SEC tournament. The Tigers will play in Wednesday’s first round vs. 10-seeded Mississippi State. Texas A&M is projected as the No. 5 seed and will open plays in either the second round vs. Vanderbilt, Texas or Oklahoma on Thursday. The Aggies are predicted to be the third seed in the NCAA tournament as they predicted that one of their 12-second teams would receive the invitation.
