AggieHuddle.com’s look at the 2026-27 Texas A&M basketball team continues with the guards. You can read the preview on the forwards and centers here.

Returning players (* indicates currently ineligible)

Rylan Griffen* (6-5, 181; 11.2 points, 2.7 rebounds per game in 2025-26)

Jeremiah Green (6-3, 189; .9 PPG, .1 RPG)

Neiko Mundey (6-1, 190; did not play in 2025-26)

New Arrivals

PJ Haggerty (6-4, 195; 23.4 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 3.8 assists per game at Kansas State)

Jordan Pope (6-1, 180; 13.1 PPG, 2.1 RPG, 1.8 APG at Texas)

Tyshawn Archie (6-1, 175; 14.3 PPG, 1.9 RPG, 2.9 APG at McNeese)

Jalen Reece (6, 185; 5.8 PPG, 3.8 APG at LSU)

Lukas Walls (6-5, 208; 7.9 PPG, 2.5 RPG at Radford)

Strengths

• Strong 3-point shooting. Five of the six guards who shot more than five 3’s last season had percentages over 35% — Haggerty (35.1%), Archie (36.9%), Pope (39.9%), Griffen (40.4%) and Walls (45.5%).
• More versatility than last year. There was only one real slasher on last year’s team, guard Marcus Hill — and he’s gone. The Aggies needed to be less stationary and have more attacking the basket, and they got one of the best attackers in the nation in Haggerty. Pope and Archie are also good at getting to the basket and drawing fouls. While Coach Bucky McMillan is still going to want his guys shooting a lot of 3’s, they won’t have to be married to it. And, if they do want to shoot a 3, guys like Walls have proven they can sit outside the arc and shoot the lights out on kickouts or offensive rebounds.

Weaknesses

• A lack of distributors. Reece is the only true point guard on the team, and he only started 10 games last year for LSU (though he played in all 32 of them). McMillan’s offense is predicated on a lot of passing, and they don’t really have a true trigger for the offense beyond Reece. Mundey and Archie could play some point, but it was forward Jalen Shelley who served as the point against SMU. They’ve got to find someone beyond Reece and hope they can handle it consistently.