Anyone who expected Texas A&M basketball to make the tournament after losing three starters to professional basketball, another major role player to graduation, and another to injury was kidding themselves.
As much as we wanted to believe in a magical run with a new, imaginative offense with shades of Duke, Villanova and Michigan to feature guard play, the truth is the talent doesn’t match up to the rest of the SEC. That is what happens in a short-term business like college basketball. You need recruits that can contribute right away. The 120th-ranked 2018 recruiting class was never going to get it done.