I can rank every team in the last 20 years...
#1 2006-07 - The only truly elite season in my lifetime and the culmination of the Billy Gillispie era at A&M. The only nitpick would be a relatively weak or uninteresting schedule. Nonetheless, there were several strong wins and great performances, including over elite programs like Kansas and Louisville. We were ranked wire to wire, most of the time in the top 10, and we performed like a top 10 team as well according to the efficiency rankings.
#2 2015-16 - Strong roster overhaul being built by the Kennedy/Stansbury/Keller coaching staff combination pays big dividends. Only minor blemishes and several big wins, including Kentucky as well as nonconference supremacy over rivals Texas and Baylor. Season capped with a rare regular season conference championship. Memorable comeback in NCAA Tournament salvaged what would have been a disappointing postseason.
#3 2009-10 - Mark Turgeon's third season was his best at A&M. Strong and talented roster, marred a bit by the loss of Roland early in the season after a very strong non-conference performance. A&M kept the performance up and turned in a very good season with good victories, including wins over Texas and Baylor at Reed. Played to seed in the NCAA Tournament with overtime loss to Top-10 Purdue, but many felt we should have beat Purdue regardless because of injury to Robbie Hummel.
#4 2007-08 - Solid season for first year coach Mark Turgeon. Strong opening in the beginning of season fizzled out a bit toward the end of the Big 12 slate. Several memorable wins and performances including beating LSU and Texas at Reed, as well as winning at Baylor. Also, a memorable 40+ point beatdown of Tech in Reed and 5OT thriller loss to Baylor at Reed. Unlucky seed and arguably highway robbery by the referees led to 2nd round NCAA loss to UCLA.
#5 2005-06 - Good team put together and forged by Billy Gillispie finishes strong. A weak non-conference slate, combined with a big of a slow start in Big 12 play eventually gave way to the emergence of a bit of basketball power at the end of Big 12 play. Win over Texas at Reed is arguably the biggest and most satisfying win in my lifetime, and another memorable win vs a major program in Syracuse in the NCAA Tournament on top of that.
#6 2017-18 - Strong roster led to a good but ultimately disappointing and frustrating season. Discipline problems and frustrating losses led this team to underperform its potential. Nevertheless there were some good win in there, and none bigger or more memorable than the NCAA Tournament beatdown of North Carolina.
#7 2022-23 - Team puts everything together in a big way under 4th year coach Buzz Williams. Pushed hard for, but ultimately failed to obtain second regular season SEC Championship. Team scuffled again in nonconference play, but by the end of the year had won many big games. Disappointing seed and loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament took away much of the shine that could have been on this season.
#8 2023-24 - Solid season with insane Jeckyl and Hyde performances. Another Buzz Williams year with a solid handful of big victories, this time including a good performance in the NCAA Tournament. Losses to bad teams in SEC play did threaten to derail everything, and made it all more stressful than it needed to be.
#9 2008-09 - Turgeon's second season was a bit of a step back from his first, but still a solid season. Wins over Texas and Baylor at Reed as well as beating LSU in Houston. Season ended in a blowout loss in the NCAA Tournament to UConn where we looked completely outclassed in every way.
#10 2021-22 - A really good season in Buzz Williams third year which was marred by a poor schedule, a slow start to SEC play, and a failure to convince the NCAA Tournament Committee. This is probably a better team than some of the other just above it on this list. Won several big, convincing SEC games, and followed it up with a decent games in the NIT against some other power conference opponents.
#11 2010-11 - Mark Turgeon's last team was good, for A&M, but ultimately for a lot of fans failed to live up to the previous 6 years of incredible program building by he and his predecessor. Not a lot of big wins on the schedule. 5 combined losses to Baylor and Texas. Wins over Kansas State and Temple arguably being the jewel wins. A solid record, but really not a great performing team and all capped up with a disappointing loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. This is a team where the real promise was in bigger things to come with returning veterans, a superstar player, and another huge scorer redshirting waiting in the wings, but unfortunately, the promise would go unfulfilled.
#12 2004-05 - The rebirth of Texas A&M basketball. This season punches a bit harder than its weight due to the complete resurrection of the program achieved by first year coach Billy Gillispie. However, an extremely poor schedule, an extremely slow paced defensive team, and only an NIT appearance drag this one down from how it felt at the time.
#13 2014-15 - A fourth season into what became a complete rebuild under Billy Kennedy. This year produced, finally, a good team with a reshuffling of the coaching staff and an infusion of talent. A mediocre year with no real memorable wins, just good enough to make the NIT, and hope that eventually the talent being accumulated would show in the results, and it would the next season.
#14 2016-17 - A scuffling season with not a lot of memorable moments. The team lost a huge amount of talent and this was by and large a rebuilding season with a highly regarded sophomore class given the keys. We weren't good, but we weren't like godawful or anything either.
#15 2018-19 - Bad year. The death knell for Billy Kennedy's head coaching career. This felt like a return to the bad old days of 2011-14 at the beginning of Kennedy's tenure, and he was justifiably let go at the end of this one, which included a loss to Texas Southern at Reed.
#16 2012-13 - The only good thing I can say about this season is that at least the weak schedule allowed us to have a winning record, and also changing to the SEC meant that we didn't have to see the team get pasted by all of our rivals.
#17 2013-14 - Eric Hymen started the year talking tough to 3rd year coach Billy Kennedy, stating that a postseason appearance was expected. Ultimately, Kennedy managed to finish one game over .500, allowing the Athletic Department to buy a spot in the CBI, proving that Texas A&M basketball was back. Probably the biggest joke of a season in program history. Virtually no big wins, out of conference losses to SMU and North Texas. In hindsight, due to coaching staff changes, good days were around the corner, but at the time it certainly didnt feel like it.
#18 2019-20 - A bad start to Buzz Williams era. Almost nothing went right in terms of jump starting the program. Unfortunately a spell of late season better performances and a big win against Auburn only led to the chaos of the 2020 pandemic.
#19 2011-12 - What could have been the culmination of the Turgeon era at A&M with a team led by a pair of stars in Khris Middleton and Elston Turner along with veteran role players and high regarded freshman, fizzled before it began when Turgeon left for Maryland after Gary Williams' late retirement. The subsequent hire of Billy Kennedy, and the ultimately the shakeup did not mesh well at all with the roster, leading to not only a bad year. But arguably the most disappointing season in A&M basketball history.
#20 2020-21 - Just, absolutely the worst.*
*worst since 2003-04