NCAA Basketball: 10 takeaways from Week 3

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Texas A&M are National Championship contenders

Alright, so this is probably the closest thing to a hot take on this list of takeaways from last week.

However, a road win against USC by 16 points should be enough to let people know how phenomenal this Aggies’ team really is.

After a dominating performance over No. 11 West Virginia to open the season while missing two key players, Texas A&M have never looked like losing.

Where the Aggies are going to suffer this season is that there is an innate college basketball bias against the SEC. No matter how many top opponents are in the conference, teams not-named-Kentucky always seem to be under-seeded and under-ranked.

This will bother fans far more than it will the players, but it will really come into play in March when a four or five loss Texas A&M team gets a four or five seed instead of their deserved three seed and dominates their way to the Final Four.

This team is better from top to bottom than the South Carolina team that made the Final Four last season, and their bigs are next to impossible to contain. Remember this when people are saying “wow, what an upset! I can’t believe the Aggies beat (insert elite college basketball program)” in March.

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