GTFO Countdown, T-17 Days: The Rise Texas A&M Mens' Basketball and its Uncertain Future

During the month of June, BON authors will memorialize the final days of the UT-A&M rivalry through a series of perspectives, as seen through The Eyes of Texas, to include essays, personal reflections and commemorations of significant note.

The Texas A&M mens' basketball program has been in existence for 100 years. For most of that time, they were an afterthought -- an unimportant appendage of an athletic program driven by football. But in recent years this has changed. The rise of Aggie basketball happened quickly.

We have reached a curious point in the history of Aggie hoops. Much has been written