About 75 to 100 students gathered at Reed Arena to welcome home the Texas A&M team after the 83-71 victory at Kentucky Saturday, spokesman Adam Quisenberry said.
The victory at Kentucky came in A&M’s first road game as a member of the Southeastern Conference.
The victory improved A&M to 2-0 in the SEC. The Aggies began league play with a difficult three-game set: Home to Arkansas, at Kentucky and now back home to play Florida.
According to the Ratings Percentage Index compiled by Jerry Palm for CBSSports.com, A&M will face three of the league’s top eight RPI teams to begin the SEC race. Arkansas has the eighth-best RPI, UK the fourth best and Florida the best.
By contrast, Kentucky is opening with games against the 10th-best RPI team (Vanderbilt), fifth best (A&M) and ninth best (Tennessee).
Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
