No. 8 Texas in tourney mode, meets No. 23 Iowa State

No. 8 Texas will look to carry onto its spot atop the Massive 12 Convention standings when it performs host to No. 23 Iowa State on Tuesday in Austin, Texas.

The Longhorns (21-6, 10-4 Massive 12) are tied for first within the Massive 12 with No. 3 Kansas and head into their rematch with Iowa State after an 85-83 additional time house win over Oklahoma on Saturday. Sir’Jabari Rice tied a season excessive with 24 factors for Texas, whereas Marcus Carr added 17 and Timmy Allen had 15.

Texas hit its first 5 photographs in additional time to take cost however needed to survive a possible game-tying layup on the buzzer by the Sooners. The Longhorns’ Tyrese Hunter made considered one of two free throws with 6.8 seconds left to offer the ultimate factors of the sport.

The Longhorns needed to overcome a seven-point deficit with 8:21 remaining simply to power additional time. Texas allowed Oklahoma to make only one shot from the ground within the closing 8:49 of the sport.

“These guys have performed plenty of video games and we’re taking part in deep into February proper now and we’ll be in video games like this the remainder of the yr,” Texas coach Rodney Terry stated. “That is this time of yr’s kind of video games. These guys have been nice by way of understanding what they’re taking part in for proper now. Each recreation is (like) an NCAA Match recreation.”

The Cyclones (17-9, 8-6) head to Austin on the heels of a 61-55 loss at Kansas State on Saturday. Aljaz Kunc led Iowa State with 15 factors whereas Gabe Kalscheur added 11 because the Cyclones performed with out outdoors menace Caleb Grill, who missed the sport with a lingering again harm.

Grill’s absence prompted the Cyclones to push the ball inside, they usually scored 24 factors within the paint.

Iowa State led by 10 factors late within the first half and by 31-23 at halftime however allowed Kansas State to swoop to the entrance with a 14-3 run early within the second half. Neither workforce led by greater than 5 factors the remainder of the way in which till the ultimate two minutes.

“Within the second half we allowed (Kansas State) to get confidence and get again within the recreation,” Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger stated. “Our protection within the first half was the explanation we scored, and I felt like our protection within the second half was the explanation we did not rating.

“We’re the kind of workforce that once we get stops, our guys often have extra confidence. That will get us higher appears and to the paint, and we weren’t as intentional defensively.”

Iowa State has dropped three of its previous 4 video games and fell to 2-7 on the highway. The Cyclones defeated Texas 78-67 in Ames, Iowa, on Jan. 17 however Texas has been powerful to beat at house, going 15-1.

–Area Stage Media