WATCH: Wade Taylor Breaks Texas A&M All-Time Scoring Record vs. LSU

Wade Taylor IV is now Texas A&M's all-time leading scorer in basketball.
Texas A&M Aggies guard Wade Taylor IV
Texas A&M Aggies guard Wade Taylor IV | Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images

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Wade Taylor has already has his jersey retured at Reed Arena.

Now, the Texas A&M Aggies tar has set a new record as well.

With 14:48 to go in the first half of the Aggies Saturday afternoon matchup vs. the LSU Tigers, Taylor hit a three-pointer with a hand in his face to give Texas A&M a 15-7 lead, giving him nine points in the game, and making him the lone holder of the Texas A&M Aggies scoring record at 1,991 points.

Taylor passed Bernard King for the record, who set the mark at 1,990 points in the 2002-03 season.

"He will go down in history as one of the best players to ever play at A&M," Aggies coach Buzz Williams said in October. "He graduated in three years and will get his masters in four. Back-to-back first-team all-conference... He's like Michael Jackson, he just keeps getting better and better."

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Texas A&M Aggies forward Henry Coleman III (15) and guard Wade Taylor IV (4) embrace after the game against the Auburn Tigers at Reed Arena. | Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images

So far in the 2024-25 season, Taylor's numbers have been a bit down relative to previous seasons, with the senior averaging 15.2 points, 4.5 assists and 1.3 steals per game.

That said, part of the lower scoring numbers can also be attributed to a more balanced Aggie offense, that has resulted in Taylor averaging a career-best 4.6 assists per game.

For his career, Taylor is averaging 14.5 points, 3.5 assists and 2.7 rebounds per game.

Now, he will have a chance to shatter the record previously set by King, as the Aggies still have the SEC and NCAA Tournaments left ahead of them over the next few weeks.

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Matt Galatzan
MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writer’s Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014 covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.

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