Basketball Practice Starts Tonight!!!

Howdy Guys - Just wanted to drop everyone a quick line to let you know that basketball practice gets underway tonight. I know it seems WAY too early, but hey, maybe it will provide a nice break from FranGate.

The Aggies were picked to finish 3rd in the league behind Kansas and Texas, according to the coaches pre-season poll.

MEN'S BIG 12 PRESEASON POLL
Rank, school Points
1 Kansas (10) 120
2 Texas 105
3 Texas A&M (2) 101
4 Kansas State 91
5 Missouri 66
5 Oklahoma 66
7 Oklahoma State 61
8 Texas Tech 60
9 Baylor 55
10 Nebraska 29
11 Iowa State 22
12 Colorado 16
First-place votes in parentheses

In addition, Joseph Jones was selected to the first team All-Big 12 squad by the coaches and Josh Carter and DeAndre Jordan were selected as honorable mention candidates.

ALL-BIG 12 1st TEAM
Curtis Jerrells - Baylor
Darrell Arthur - Kansas
Joseph Jones - Texas A&M
Brandon Rush - Kansas
Aleks Maric - Nebraska

Player of the Year
D.J. Augustin - Texas

Other honorable mention picks were Baylor's Aaron Bruce, Colorado's Richard Roby, Kansas' Mario Chalmers and Sherron Collins, Kansas State's Beasley and Bill Walker, Oklahoma State's Marcus Dove and Texas Tech's Martin Zeno.

- - Here are a few quick articles you may want to take a look at if you have a few minutes:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA101207.BKC.Big12.
Practices.en.3974807.html

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/texasam
/stories/101207dnspobig12basketball.15da97fa2.html

http://si.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=SI.com+-+Writers+-+Preseason+primer+%28cont.%29+-+Thursday+October+11%2C+2007+11%3A12AM&expire=-1&urlID=24369100&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsportsillustrated.cnn.com%2F2007%2Fwriters%2Fseth_davis%2F10%2F


The Aggies play their first exhibition game of the season on Thursday, November 1st at 7:00.

Their full schedule can be found here:
http://www.aggieathletics.com/schedule.php?SID=MBB&YOS=2008

We will have much more for you guys as we continue to work our way through October.

I hope everyone had a great summer.

Carry on.
-sb