Aggies can eye Atlanta thanks to stifling defense

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The No. 8 Aggies do shoot the basketball about as well as any team in the country -- only four of 325 Division I teams had a better shooting percentage than Texas A&M going into its game Saturday night against No. 14 Oklahoma State. The Aggies also ranked in the top 20 in 3-point shooting and the top 25 in free throw shooting.

But shooting isn't why Texas A&M shellacked the Cowboys 67-49 in front of a crowd of 13,187, the largest to ever watch a game at Reed Arena. And it isn't why the Aggies are alone in first place in the Big 12 Conference standings and might be on the verge of completing their best season ever, possibly ending more than two months from now with a trip to the Final Four at Atlanta's Georgia Dome.

The Aggies are winning -- and winning big -- because of their defense.