Aggies Take On Baylor Tonight - 8:30 - ESPN2

OK - So, will tonight be the night the Aggies give us hope for 2009? I sure hope so.

Standing in the way? The MIGHTY Baylor Bears.

I am having a little bit of a hard time being entirely objective about the game tonight. I really want to say I think the Aggies are going to come out pretty amped up and ready to prove something, but I can not say that without letting the anticipation of the game cloud my judgement. I am a homer, what do you expect? Let's just hope they come out more focused than they did on Saturday night.

Here are a few notes from the media release for tonight's game:

PROJECTED TEXAS A&M STARTERS
No. Player P Ht. Wt. Cl-Ex PPG RPG APG
15 Donald Sloan G 6-3 205 Jr-2L 11.6 3.6 3.5
3 Derrick Roland G 6-4 185 Jr-2L 4.9 2.3 --
23 Josh Carter F 6-7 200 Sr-3L 13.1 4.1 --
0 Bryan Davis F 6-9 240 Jr-2L 10.3 6.4 --
41 Chinemelu Elonu C 6-10 235 Jr-2L 10.1 7.3 --

PROJECTED BAYLOR STARTERS
No. Player P Ht. Wt. Cl-Ex PPG RPG APG
0 Curtis Jerrells G 6-1 205 Sr-3L 16.5 4.5 5.9
45 Tweety Carter G 5-11 185 Jr-2L 11.2 3.0 2.9
5 Henry Dugat G 6-0 173 Sr-3L 13.5 3.5 3.12
3 Kevin Rogers F 6-9 250 Sr-3L 12.3 7.7 --
15 Mamadou Diene C 7-1 255 Sr-3L 2.0 1.6 --

- The Aggies have won 7 of the last 8 in the series. Each team won on the road last year
with Baylor winning 116-110 (5OT) in College Station and A&M put up a 71-57 win in Waco. With tonight's tip at 8:30, we better not see 5OT again tonight......

- Baylor won its Big 12 opener against Texas Tech (73-61) at home on Saturday. The Bears have won seven of their last eight games.

- Baylor is one of the Big 12's most experienced teams, with four senior starters who have played together for four years.

- The Bears' two losses this season were to No. 3 Wake Forest (87-74) at a neutral site and to South Carolina (85-84) at home. They beat No. 15 Arizona State (87-78) on a neutral court in late November.

- A&M's 77 home wins in the last four years are the second most in the nation in that period behind Memphis (82).

- Junior Chinemelu Elonu scored a career-high 20 points with 12 rebounds at Oklahoma State. He has had a team-high five double-doubles this season and in the last eight games has averaged 13.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 2.4 blocks. Elonu's season field goal percentage of .700 ranks third nationally (min. 90 FGA). A&M is 19-1 when Elonu scores at least 6 points and is 21-1 when he has at least 5 rebounds.

Aggie Hoops Report Score Prediction:
Baylor 71
Texas A&M 74

Special thanks to aggieathletics.com for the game notes.