COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Henry Coleman III's third-straight double-double powered the No. 13 Texas A&M men's basketball team to a 74-66 win over the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles in front of 10,689 fans on Friday at Reed Arena.
With the victory, the Aggies improved to 4-0 for the second time under fifth-year head coach Buzz Williams. An NCAA Tournament team a year ago, the Golden Eagles fell to 1-3 on the season.
Coleman, a senior from Richmond, Virginia, scored a team-high 19 points on 7-of-7 shooting and pulled down 10 rebounds to become the first Aggie with three-straight double-double efforts since Tyler Davis did it in 2018. It was Coleman's 13th career double-double. He also become the first Aggie with three-straight games with 10 or more rebounds since Davis and Robert Williams III did it in 2018, and he took over the SEC lead for total rebounds with 44 after four games.
Other Aggies with double-figure points were junior guard Wade Taylor IV with 16 and graduate guard Tyrece Radford with 11.
An NCAA Tournament team a year ago, the Golden Eagles proved to be up to the challenge of the ranked Aggies for much of the first half as they led by as many as five points and held an advantage with just over four minutes remaining. But the Aggies outscored ORU 12-3 over the final four minutes and took a 38-31 lead into halftime.
After halftime the Aggies took control of the game as they increased their lead to double digits by the 13-minute mark. Texas A&M's biggest lead of 13 points came at the 12:46 mark and the Golden Eagle never got closer than six points the rest of the contest despite connecting on six second-half 3-pointers.
A poor shooting night by Texas A&M led to a whopping 28 offensive rebounds, which was the most by the Aggies in a single game since at least 1996-97. It led to 22-to-4 and 42-to-14 advantages in second-chance points and points in the paint, respectively. The Maroon & White enjoyed an overall rebounding advantage of 53-to-29 and it marked the time that the Aggies have reached the 50-rebound plateau since 2018.