{"id":505,"date":"2005-01-12T22:27:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T04:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=505"},"modified":"2005-01-12T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T04:28:09","slug":"a-big-aggie-whoooop-for-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"A Big Aggie Whoooop For Hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winless in the Big 12 last season.  18 straight conference losses.  Tenth-ranked Longhorns in town, riding a 10-game winning streak as visitors against the Aggies.<\/p>\n<p>What does all that add up to?  A good old fashioned spanking, of course.  The surprise is that it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs.sportsline.com\/collegebasketball\/gamecenter\/recap\/NCAAB_20050112_TX@TXAM\">Aggies spanking the Horns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before a school-record crowd of 12,811, Law helped A&#038;M end the Longhorns&#8217; 10-game winning streak in College Station and improve its record at Reed Arena to 12-0 this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies also knocked off their first Top 10 foe, and fourth overall, since beating Texas in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite getting off to such an impressive start, A&#038;M had generated little attention mostly because of a nonconference schedule that included games against Prairie View A&#038;M, Texas-Permian Basin and Trinity, a Division III school.<\/p>\n<p>Let there be no more doubt &#8211; A&#038;M is for real.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a tough 65-60 loss at No. 2 Kansas last week, A&#038;M surprisingly seized control of this game early and never let the Longhorns back into it.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies&#8217; lead reached 21 points early in the second half, but Texas (12-3, 1-1) fought back behind a full court press and scoring spurts by Tucker and Aldridge.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rank us, dammit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winless in the Big 12 last season. 18 straight conference losses. Tenth-ranked Longhorns in town, riding a 10-game winning streak as visitors against the Aggies. What does all that add up to? A good old fashioned spanking, of course. The surprise is that it was the Aggies spanking the Horns. Before a school-record crowd of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}