Sources – Texas A & M to hire Bucky McMillan of Samford as coach

San Antonio – Texas A&M is expected to hire Samford coach Bucky McMillan, as a school’s male basketball coach, sources said on Friday. The parties finalize a five -year agreement, according to sources.

McMillan is Samford’s head coach, whom he led to a pair of championships from the South Conference and an NCAA tournament in five seasons there. His global record was 99-52, and he led Samford to four seasons of 20 consecutive victories.

His teams play in a hyper tempo in a style known as “Bucky Ball”, which immediately resulted in a success in Samford. Three times, he was appointed coach of the year of the southern conference in a place that has struggled to gain during a generation.

McMillan succeeds Buzz Williams, who left for Maryland following three consecutive NCAA tournaments for AGGIES. Texas A&M obtained a seeded seed 4 in the NCAA tournament this year.

McMillan has a history of results consistent at all levels. The offer of the NCAA tournament in Samford in 2024 was the first of the school since 2000. Samford took Kansas n ° 4 to the BRINK in the 2024 tournament, reducing a deficit of 22 points to a point with less than a minute to play. He lost 93-89 after a controversial fault in the last minute.

McMillan, 41, presents himself as one of the most intriguing and promising young coaches in the country. He won five state high school titles at the Mountain Brook High School in Alabama and, in rare moving, took the college post in Samford directly from the school. In 12 years in Mountain Brook, he won 333 games, has an average of 28 victories per season and transformed the local program into a familiar name nationwide.

He defined a style that includes a strong accent placed on pressing and disturbances. It is one who not only played in attack quickly, but he tries to accelerate the opposition. During each of the last two seasons, Samford’s opponents have made the ball at a rate that has placed the team in the country’s top 20 for the percentage of the opponent’s turnover.

Energy and style should help start an A&M fans base which is not organically a basketball group. A&M should have nearly $ 7 million available in Nile and income this season, a competitive number for the SEC which should give Texas A&M a chance to be competitive in the conference.