COLLEGE STATION — Thirteen Texas A&M players cracked the scoring column MOnday night as the Aggies easily disposed of ULM 108-67.

“I didn’t think our effort was as good as it was last game. I practiced them last night and ran some guys for not blocking out, so we’ve got to get our legs together. But we’re trending in the right direction,” Coach Bucky McMillan said.

The Aggies (3-0), who have yet to trail this season, jumped out quickly to a 16-3 lead. During that opening outburst, the Aggies showed their scoring versatility. Forwards Jalen Shelley (5 points, 9 rebounds), Mackenzie Mgbako (5 points), and Zach Clemence (10 points) and guards Jordan Pope (19 points), PJ Haggerty (22 points), Rylan Griffen (7 points, 6 rebounds) and Neiko Mundey (8 points) all contributed points, with Griffen hitting a 3-pointer and Mundey adding three with a basket and a free throw.

Much of the first half was a scoring competition between Pope and Haggerty, who scored 15 and 13 points, respectively in the first 20 minutes. Eight of Pope’s total came in a personal 8-0 run in one minute, 39 seconds to push A&M’s lead from 30-15 to 38:15 with 5:03 left. A couple of seconds later, a dunk from Cade Phillips (4 points, 5 rebounds) put the Aggies up 25.

The game was, for all intents and purposes, over at halftime with the Aggies up 54-27 and Pope and Haggerty having combined for more points than the entire Warhawks roster. But the points kept coming for A&M.

The Aggies were up 25 with 13:30 remaining before a 12-4 run that included six points from Clemence in 28 seconds — three free throws and a 3-pointer. After Mundey and Tyshawn Archie (12 points) hit 3’s on back-to-back possessions, the Aggies were up 33 at 81-48 with more than 11 minutes remaining in the contest.

The highlight of the night came a few minutes later, when Archie came down on the right wing, sprinted to the basket and threw down a huge dunk over a pair of ULM defenders.

“I’ve seen him have some surprising dunks in practice. I told him if he tried to do that on me, that would be suicide for him,” McMillan quipped.

The Aggies led by 42 multiple times, the latest being after a 3-pointer by Mbako with 3:15 remaining in the game. In all, 16 different players got on the court Monday night.

“It’s good to play a lot of guys in the game. We wanted to space out the minutes. We want to build the depth of our team, you go through the season with injuries and sicknesses so you want to build the depth,” McMillan said. “It was good to see (forward) Josh Irving (8 points) and Neiko Mundey get double-digit minutes and make the most of it.”

The only major concern after the game was the status of Phillips, who left the game in the second half with an apparent right knee injury and did not return to the game, though he did return to the bench.

““We’ll see here. He’ll be questionable for Thursday going forward. He’s a key glue guy for us, plays defense hard, and rebounds at a high level, so we have to get him right,” McMIllan said. “Right now the prognosis is nothing long term, but we’ll get an image on it tomorrow and see.”