Texas A&M leaning on transfers in strong start to SEC play
, 2023-01-17 17:12:44,
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M guard Dexter Dennis didn’t want to interrupt his own postgame press conference, but the man was thirsty. Scoring 15 points in the first half against a league rival while playing Dennis’ usual relentless defense will do that to a guy.
“Quick side note,” Dennis said while sitting next to transfer partner Julius Marble during the postgame powwow on January 7 following a lopsided win over LSU. “Is this water for us?”
Dennis politely wanted to make sure the bottle placed in front of him was for his mouth and not an advertisement for the cameras (in fact, it was meant to quench his thirst). LSU wished Dennis’s courtesy had carried over to the court, because he had just finished treating the Tigers rather roughly at the Aggies’ home.
“He’s been a player of the year on the defensive end in his previous league,” LSU coach Matt McMahon said of Dennis, a transfer from Wichita State of the American Athletic Conference. “But he really brought (the Aggies) to the offensive end in the first half. They were able to dominate.”
The Aggies’ 69-56 control win over LSU two games into the SEC was simply a harbinger of things to come for coach Buzz Williams’ fourth-team A&M team. The Aggies (12-5, 4-0 SEC), who host Florida (10-7, 3-2) on Wednesday at 6 p.m., have won their first four league games for the second straight season under Williams. .
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