After tonight, your Fightin' Texas Aggie hoops team is tied for first in the nation in the college basketball ranks with a 72-44 victory over Northwestern State. The bottom line is they played a team they should have manhandled and they manhandled them for most of the game tonight. You have to take everything with a grain of salt in these home openers against bad teams. With that said, I think Aggie fans saw at least a few glimpses of what we can expect heading into the 2016-2017 season.
1. Guard play is the ride or die
It's not fair to say that JJ Caldwell would have come in and been an instant contributor if he were eligible this season, although I think he would have been.