Wade Taylor IV reflects on Texas A&M's regular season

Texas A&M closed out its regular season with a 67-61 win over Alabama that sent a definite message: This season wasn’t a fluke.

Instead of folding after the team lost last week to Mississippi State, making it a long shot for the Aggies to have a chance at the regular-season SEC title, Texas A&M fought back. And now the Aggies will head into the postseason riding a wave of confidence.

But it hasn’t always come easy.

“It is tough. We had a bunch of up and downs,” guard Wade Taylor IV said. “I mean you could think about it, Dec. 20 we were 6-5 and nobody thought we’d be in this position we’re in today. This team is very resilient. We stayed together throughout this whole process.”

Texas A&M beat Alabama despite attempting 12 fewer shots in the game and being outrebounded 43-34.

The Aggies simply made the winning plays when they needed to, with a good number of them coming at the end of a foul. Texas A&M went 27-of-28 from three free-throw line in the win over Alabama.

The victory meant more than just any other game to the Aggies, too.

“Just to finish out the conference with the most wins in conference history is the ending chapter of that book we just wrote,” Taylor said. “So now it’s time to start Volume 2.”

The win over Alabama means Texas A&M finishes just one game behind the Crimson Tide in the final league standings.

Thanks to its strong regular season, Texas A&M has earned the No. 2 seed in the SEC Basketball Tournament and will play its opening game on Friday as the first game in the evening session. The game will tip off at 7 p.m. ET on the SEC Network.

This year’s SEC Tournament is being played at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.