# SEC Men's Basketball: Texas A&M Aggies Dominates Oklahoma State Cowboys 88-69 **Published:** 2026-11-12 — **By:** Stacy Stanfield **Category:** games — **Type:** game-recap **Source:** https://secscouts.com/news/sec-men-s-basketball-texas-am-aggies-dominates-oklahoma-state-cowboys-88-69 **Teams:** [Texas A&M](https://secscouts.com/texas-am/) **Players:** [Zach Clemence](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4683146/zach-clemence), [PJ Haggerty](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5106275/pj-haggerty), [Josh Irving](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5308457/josh-irving), [Jordan Pope](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5105624/jordan-pope) --- COLLEGE STATION, Texas (11/11/2026) — PJ Haggerty scored 22 points and Texas A&M shot 51 percent from the floor as the Aggies pulled away from the Oklahoma State Cowboys 88-69 Wednesday night at Reed Arena, putting on a sharpshooting display in front of 8,606 fans to open their 2026 season. ## How It Happened The game began as a genuine battle, with both teams trading three-pointers in the opening minutes. Jordan Pope opened the scoring with a 25-footer before Oklahoma State's Jordan Burks answered with a triple of his own to level it at 3-3. Jalen Shelley and Zach Clemence each connected from deep to push Texas A&M ahead, but the Cowboys refused to go quietly — Kanye Clary drilled a 23-foot three at the 13:13 mark to give Oklahoma State a brief 15-14 edge, the only lead change of the contest. That advantage was short-lived. Texas A&M responded with an 8-0 run — from a 15-15 tie out to a 22-16 margin — and never looked back. Josh Irving ignited the decisive stretch, first throwing down an alley-oop dunk off a Jalen Reece feed, then knocking down a 27-footer from Pope to push the lead to 30-24 by the 7:17 mark of the first half. A Rylan Griffen three-pointer and a Haggerty bomb before halftime sent Texas A&M into the locker room ahead 50-37. The second half was all Aggies. Zach Clemence opened the period with back-to-back three-pointers — a 27-footer at 19:33, then a 26-footer at 18:45 — that ballooned the Texas A&M lead to 56-39 before the Cowboys could blink. Oklahoma State made a brief push through Clary, who hit back-to-back threes at 10:15 and 9:58 to trim the deficit to eight, but Texas A&M's halfcourt offense continued to generate clean looks. Pope's 31-foot bomb at 11:10 had already extended the cushion to 68-52, and a Griffen three at 5:57 followed by back-to-back Pope buckets pushed the final margin to 88-69. ## Turning Point The sequence that ended any Oklahoma State hope came late in the first half. After the Cowboys briefly led at 15-14, Texas A&M's offense found another gear. Griffen's 29-foot triple at the 5:16 mark stretched the Aggie lead to 36-29, and Haggerty's 26-foot three with 43 seconds left made it a 12-point halftime advantage. Oklahoma State shot just 30 percent from the floor and 20 percent from three for the game — a pace that made a comeback mathematically possible but practically unreachable against a Texas A&M offense that converted nearly half of its three-point attempts. ## Star of the Game PJ Haggerty led all scorers with 22 points and was at his best when Texas A&M needed momentum swings. He finished 2-for-2 from three and repeatedly attacked off the dribble to generate high-percentage looks for himself and his teammates. Jordan Pope was equally impactful in a quieter way, finishing with 14 points and six assists — including the feed that sent Josh Irving streaking to the basket for his alley-oop dunk at 15:23. Irving himself had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, adding two more first-half three-pointers that set the tone. Clemence chipped in 14 points, including those back-to-back bombs to open the second half. For Oklahoma State, Anthony Felesi led the Cowboys with 14 points, eight rebounds, and three assists, and Kanye Clary also scored 14 — four of them in rapid succession in the second half that briefly threatened to bring the Cowboys back into contention. ## What It Means Texas A&M's offensive efficiency — 51 percent from the floor, 48 percent from three, and 17 assists — signals that the Aggies have the firepower to compete at an elite level in Big 12 and non-conference play this season. Reed Arena provided a charged atmosphere and the Aggies rewarded their home crowd with a dominant performance. For Oklahoma State, the 19 turnovers from Texas A&M were a potential soft spot that the Cowboys couldn't exploit, largely because their own shooting struggles — particularly from deep at 20 percent — prevented them from sustaining any pressure. The Cowboys will need sharper perimeter shooting and cleaner offensive execution going forward. --- *Original article: [SEC Men's Basketball: Texas A&M Aggies Dominates Oklahoma State Cowboys 88-69](https://secscouts.com/news/sec-men-s-basketball-texas-am-aggies-dominates-oklahoma-state-cowboys-88-69) — SEC Scouts*