The Texas A&M Aggies are coming off of a much-needed bye week, following their embarrassing blowout loss to the South Carolina Gamecocks. Fortunately, it appears that Texas A&M will have more than one week to get things fixed before returning to SEC play.

No. 13 Texas A&M men’s basketball bounced back from a season-opening loss to dominate East Texas A&M, newly-renamed Texas A&M-Commerce, on both ends of the floor in an 87-55 win on Friday night. In his first game as an Aggie, senior SMU transfer guard Zhuric Phelps led the team with 18 points in its home opener at Reed Arena.

On Saturday, it was the football team; Monday night, the Aggies men's basketball team watched jubilant Central Florida supporters storm the court after a 64-61 upset. No. 16 Texas A&M held a lead as large as 11 in its season opener but couldn't sustain the advantage. UCF's largest lead was just three points.

The No. 13 Texas A&M Aggies bounced back from their season-opening loss to the UCF Knights on Friday in an 87-55 win over newly-named East Texas A&M, previously Texas A&M-Commerce. Aggies transfer guard Zhuric Phelps came off the bench and scored a game-high 18 points on 8 of 13 shooting in just 18 minutes of play.

Texas A&M (1-1) finally looked like the No. 13-ranked basketball team in the country after blowing out newly named East Texas A&M 87-55 on Friday night, just four days after falling to UCF on the road to open the year.

Texas A&M basketball opened up its home slate with a big win over East Texas A&M to capture its first win of the season.