Texas A & M Hiring Bucky McMillan: Samford Coach replaces Buzz Williams, tempo offense in Aggies

Texas A&M hired Bucky McMillan from Samford as the next basketball coach, the school announced on Saturday. McMillan is expected to sign a five -year contract with the school and succeed the former Buzz Williams coach, who took the vacant post in Maryland earlier this week.

“We are incredibly enthusiastic about the fact that Bucky came to Agrieland to lead our male basketball program,” said Texas A&M sports director, Trev Alberts, in a school statement. “He is an innovator as a coach, and he has an intelligent approach and focused on the game analysis. Bucky brings a unique combination of quality to our program and we are delighted to start the next chapter in our history of basketball under his direction.”

McMillan, 41, has been in Samford since 2020 and went 99-52 during his mandate at school. Samford reached the NCAA tournament last season before losing against Kansas in the first round. The Bulldogs went 22-11 this season and lost during the first round of the nit.

“I could not be more excited to wake up with the reality of being a basketball coach in Texas A & M,” ​​said McMillan in a press release. “As a guy who grew up around the dry, I am motivated by the vision of leadership of Texas A&M to contribute to the highest level of university basketball. As I have made my whole career, I will not rest as long as we have not obtained the Aggles to play at a level of championship for the year and the year.

McMillan will bring one of the most creative offensive systems to Texas A&M. McMillan’s relentless and relentless offense style was invented “Buckyball”. Samford has finished this season classified 15th in medium -sized possession length, by Kenpom.com.

McMillan will take over a program that has won at least 21 games in the last four seasons. The 2024-25 Texas A&M season ended with a defeat against Michigan No. 5 in the second round of the NCAA tournament last month.

Samford finished season 7-23 2019-20 and ranked n ° 325 in the net before McMillan arrives from Mountain Brook High School to Mountain Brook, in Alabama. McMillian resulted in high school basketball From 2006 to 2010 before taking its job as first division L with Samford.

The news of the rental reported by McMillan intervenes after the coach of Ole Miss Chris Beard chose to stay with school after receiving an increase and a zero budget considered to be the top five within the dry to stay with the rebels. Beard was one of the logical candidates to replace Williams in Texas A&M.

Texas A & M examined many candidates before deciding by McMillan, reported Norlander.

McMillan is only the last domino of the coach carousel to fall. When Villanova dismissed former coach Kyle Neptune last month, the program focused on Kevin Willard from Maryland as a successor. Shortly after Willard left Maryland, the terraaps poache Williams far from College Station.