That is all.

On the coaching search?

There's 4 games left on the season and 3 against tournament teams. But it's pretty likely we'll stick with Taylor and run out her contract despite these losing seasons.

If you're speaking in terms of next year we'll see how many girls leave her again. Replacing Pryor will be extremely difficult. You'll have to replace Ware, Hylton, and Webster as well. We're gonna need to go after a ball handler, a couple bigs, lots of shooters. This team without Pryor won't equate to any better than this 3/4 win conference season we're having with her. But I suppose some are content with a below .500 record and not sniffing the tournament.

We only signed two recruits, but they are solid. The point guard DeSouze stands at 5'6 but may be smaller . She's scrappy and going to be a really good defender, but she's not as quick as Pryor. We'll need to bring in a transfer point guard to show her the ropes. The post we bring in Jayda Porter is 6'3 and has a good offensive skill set, but isn't the quickest or best defender. She's better scoring wise than Ware, but won't be the anchor in the paint Ware was for a few years.

We're going to have to find another one year rental point guard like we did with Pryor and get a 6'4+ to help us as well. We were suppose to have brought in shooters, but statistically we are dead last in many shooting categories. If we're serious we'll let some girls go and try to replace them with better athletes. Not sure many on our roster could land a home at a power 4 school. So we either reload with better players or stick with most of the same roster, all that will be dependent on how many leave. There's maybe 3 or 4 girls that we need to stay, the rest have to be replaced.

I came here KNOWING this post would exist.

Never change, TexAgs.

D- troll

We're actively turning the corner.

I want to see her succeed and turn this program around. If that happens and we can see evidence of growth and potential success, then so be it. We cannot continue to finish 10th, 11th, 12th and beyond. Results. That's all we all want! Let's keep going.

Agreed---she has yet to show she can recruit and retain at an SEC-level.

Still turning!!! It's a very big turn! Almost there.

Bobinator has recently been posting about WAB (wins above the bubble) on the men's board.
https://texags.com/forums/7/topics/3596919

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So talked about this on a few threads, but it probably deserves it's own. As everyone knows, the NCAA ditched the RPI for the NET a few years ago. It has its own flaws, but this was a major step forward.

Last year the NCAA added a new metric, the NET WAB. (good article from CBS on it) The WAB (wins above bubble) isn't new, it's been used by analytics guys previously, but the NCAA didn't officially have it on the team sheets. Now not only is it on the team sheets, but the NCAA has it's own WAB metric.

And, somehow, against all odds. I think this thing is great. I'm not completely convinced they shouldn't just use it to seed the tournament. The first I glanced at it last year I thought "holy ****, did they just finally nail it?"

How does WAB work?

The WAB is a formula to determine how many wins an average bubble team would have against your schedule.
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So what does it actually matter?

Last year no metric more closely resembled the final seed list than the NET WAB.
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A&M's men's team is doing pretty well, is slated to make the Dance, and has a WAB of 40.
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/wab-ranking

More surprising (although maybe it shouldn't be with the recent wins over Bama at home and UT on the road) is that the women slot in at No. 42 in WAB, a couple of spots ahead of a MSU team with the same conference record and predicted to make the Dance as a 11th seed and one of the last 4 byes.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-women/d1/wab-ranking

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/30423107/ncaa-women-bracketology-2026-women-college-basketball-projections

I mentioned this on the Arkansas game thread but I suspect A&M isn't getting any bubble love because of the 12-11 overall record as opposed to MSU at 18-10. 5 more wins over directional schools in non-conference at home and A&M is probably looking at being in with a couple of more wins from the last two or in the conference tourney. It's egregious that for example Bama will end up with 20 home games compared to 13 for A&M and it has hurt the team.

https://www.secsports.com/standings/basketball-w

Regardless tip of the hat to Joni and crew for the recent spate of play.

I would have preferred playing the additional games. However, the quality of the opponents we would likely have played would have harmed our NET ranking. And the other side of the argument is that we likely would have been complaining about those games now as a hindrance to our chances. More wins, but worse NET ranking. (sort of like Schloss cancelling already scheduled games late in the year to keep them from harming our RPI).

Aggies Fatmata Janneh and Ny'Ceara Pryor played each other at their previous schools.

Janneh's team won 56-53, but Pryor had a game-high 23 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists and made sure she remembered that 😂 pic.twitter.com/asURXGZQkS

— Tyler Shaw (@TylerShawSports) February 24, 2026

Love the back and forth between these two. Sure wish we had Ny for another year or two.

You're a breath of fresh air, OP.

Winning 6 of the last 7 (3 of them against ranked teams) is a pretty good feeling.

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If she wins out, I say we extend her.

You just can't fire a National Championship coach.

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Y'all better listen to me

They turned it!!

Buford T. Justice said:

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They turned it!!

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What are this week's lotto numbers please

Buford T. Justice said:

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They turned it!!

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Into a brick wall today. Good last 5 games but just not good enough this season.

Thank you seniors! Ny is special! Fats - prayers for a speedy recovery.

Here we go for year 5…….

I wish we could downvote threads

Even if Pryor willed this team to victory tonight, the season would still be over without Fats