Aggies suffer blowout loss to Alabama to open conference play, 79-57

Alabama made short work of short-handed Texas A&M and routed the Aggies, 79-57, in their Southeastern Conference basketball opener on Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

The fifth-ranked Aggies (11-2, 0-1) were without starting guards D.J. Hogg and Admon Gilder — two of their top three scorers — and their replacements could not compensate. Hogg was sitting out of the second game of a three-game suspension. Gilder is injured.