After a pair of narrow defeats against two of the nation’s best squads, the Texas basketball team went on the road against longtime rival Oklahoma and held on for a 77-73 win Wednesday.

The win gave Texas (12-5, 1-3 SEC) its first SEC win over fellow conference newcomer Oklahoma (13-4, 0-4). Up next for Texas? A trip to No. 4 Florida Saturday.

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Texas secures its first SEC and first Quad 1 win (trust me, those are important come NCAA Tournament selection time) by fedning off a wild Sooner rally. Jordan Pope, who entered the game avering 20 points a contest over gis last six games, scores 27 points on 9-of-17 shooting to negate a career-high 29 points from OU’s Jalon Moore. Tre Johnson added 16 points, including two late buckets. .

The Sooners pulled to within three points, but back-to-back buckets from Tre Johnson (16 points) has given Texas some cushion.

Make it 27 for Texas guard Jordan Pope, who’s scored the last 14 for Texas. By the way, good news for UT to get Arthur Kaluma back on the court after he left the game with an injured shoulder, but he is trying to navigate this game with four fouls.

Where would Texas be without Jordan Pope? The Texas guard scored nine points in a row for Texas and has a team-high 21 points as the Longhorns are desperately trying to hold off the Sooners.

At one point, Texas held a 53-30 lead. The Longhorns have scored three points in the last eight minutes. Jalon Moore had led the Sooner rally with 17 points.

Texas has six baskets and six turnovers this half. Can the Longhorns settle down and get some quality shots?

Things are falling apart for Texas over the past few minutes. UT has made just one of its last seven shots, and OU is on a 12-1 run over the last 4 miniutes. Maybe even worse? Arthur Kaluma, the team’s leading rebounder and second-leading scorer, left the game after injuring his right shoulder on a hard screen.

The Sooners are on a 10-2 run, and their sudden physicality and some pressure is causing fits for the Longhorns. Texas will have to stay stay strong with the ball and make their free throws to keep this lead, it feels like. And who will step up for some needed buckets?

A couple of turnovers and a couple of defensive lapses, and OU is clawing its way back into the game. Rodney Terry takes a timeout to try and settle the Longhorns.

All five Texas starters already have at least eight points and Texas is starting to control the glass. If the Longhorns can take care of the ball, they should escape Norman with a much-needed Quad 1 win and their first SEC win. But tons of time on the clock; do the Soonbers have a run in them?

Jordan Pope didn’t cool off during the break. The Oregon State transfer is up to 12 points, and Tre Johnson just coaxes in a reverse layup that draws oohs from the Texas bench and groans from the Norman crowd. Do yourself a favor and watch that replay.

This small ball by both teams really suits Texas. The Longhorns, free from being bothered by the bruisers they’ve faced so far in the SEC, have shot 48.5% from the floor and 6-of-15 from long distance. Tramon Mark and Tre Johnson each have 10 points, and Jordan Pope and Arthur Kaluma have eight apiece. Worth noting: Oklahoma shoots almost 81% from the foul line but is just 4 of 8 from the stripe.

Tre Johnson (10 points), Jordan Pope (8) and Tramon Mark (8) have each made a pair of 3-pointers for Texas, which has six assists on 13 field goals. Great ball movement so far for UT. Of note: Devon Pryor, a 6-7 wing, makes a first-half appearance. With Chendall Weaver out, Texas coach Rodney Terry needs someone else to provide some good minutes off the bench.

There are a lot of good shooters on both teams in this game, and none is hotter than Jordan Pope. The Texas guard drains another 3 to boost his total to eight points. Now, who’s going to win the battle on the boards between two teams that struggle with rebounds? OU leads that battle 12-10.

Jordan Pope is heating up. The Texas guard hits a little runner in the lane and follows that with a 3-pointer. That quick five points forces an OU timeout.

Arthur Kaluma had four points on 1-of-5 shooting in Saturday’s loss to Tennesse, but he’s already up to four against the Sooners. Texas has already hoisted seven 3-pointers in a wide-open game. This matchup seems to favor Texas; is it a must-win in the rugged SEC?

After wrestling with physical teams in Auburn and Tennessee the past two games, the Longhorns must be loving a more free-flowing game againt OU. Tre Johnson is off to a quick seven points for Texas

Texas and Oklahoma will wait for Tennessee and Georgia to finish their game on the SEC Network before tipping off. Sixth-ranked Tennessee (15-1, 2-1 SEC) has a 19-point lead with less than 4 minutes to go over No. 23 Georgia (14-2, 2-1) in the conference matchup.

Guard Chendall Weaver, one of the energizers for the Texas basketball team, could miss a significant amount of time, head coach Rodney Terry said Monday. Terry didn’t give a time estimate on the absence of Weaver, who injured his right hip in an 87-82 loss to Auburn on Jan. 7. He did say that “it’s going to take a little time to get him back.”

A junior from Mansfield, the 6-foot-3 Weaver averages 6.7 points and 5.1 rebounds in 21.1 minutes per contest.

Texas vs Oklahoma time

Day: Wednesday

Start time: 9 p.m.

Location: Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma

How to watch Texas vs Oklahoma

TV channel: SEC Network

Livestream: Fubo, ESPN+, SEC+

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A real estate developer whose relationship with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was at the center of the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of lying to a financial institution.

The plea by Nate Paul, whose company is based in Texas, was entered before a U.S. magistrate judge and still must be reviewed by a district judge, court documents show. Records did not indicate when Paul might be sentenced.

Paul claimed that federal investigators acted improperly when they raided his Austin home in 2019. He later sought help from Paxton, and the relationship and dealings between the two men played a prominent role in lawmakers impeaching Paxton, who was later acquitted in the Senate.

Paxton has long denied wrongdoing and was not mentioned in federal indictments against Paul, which accused the developer of making false statements to banks in order to obtain more than $170 million in loans.

The Associated Press emailed a request for comment to federal prosecutors on Wednesday. Staff for Paul’s attorney, Gerry Morris, said he would have no comment.

Paul would figure heavily in 20 articles of impeachment filed against Paxton, who was accused of abusing his power and bribery in order to help the developer, who gave the Republican a $25,000 campaign donation in 2018.

The impeachment came about after eight of the attorney general’s top deputies reported him to the FBI in 2020. All were subsequently fired or quit and half the group later sued under the state’s whistleblower law.

Paul initially faced a dozen charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, but online documents noted only the plea to the single charge of lying to a financial lender.

After three years with the Texas football team, quarterback Quinn Ewers is moving on.

On Wednesday, Ewers announced that he is declaring for the 2025 NFL draft. The decision became public in a video posted to his Instagram and X accounts.

Pro Football Focus currently rates Ewers as the No. 7 quarterback in the 2025 draft class.

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The decision by Ewers to leave Texas for the NFL is hardly a surprise. Ewers considered entering the NFL draft after the 2023 season but opted to return to school for another year. Despite a report that he had been offered $6 million to enter the transfer portal and exhaust his eligibility elsewhere, Ewers also recently told ESPN that the did not expect to play college football during the 2025 season.

So all Wednesday’s news did was officially close a chapter for both Ewers and Texas. After skipping his senior year of high school and spending a semester at Ohio State, Ewers announced on Dec. 12, 2021 that he would transfer to Texas. He won the starting job ahead of the 2022 season and remained the Longhorns’ starter through last week’s 28-14 loss to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 10.

Over 36 starts, Ewers completed just under 65% of his passes while throwing for 9,128 yards and 68 touchdowns. He led Texas to a 27-9 record, the 2023 Big 12 championship and two appearances in the College Football Playoff semifinals.

Among his memorable performances were a four-touchdown outburst against Oklahoma in 2022, a 349-yard, three-touchdown game at Alabama in 2023, a 452-yard, four-touchdown performance in the 2023 Big 12 championship game and a three-touchdown effort at Michigan this past September. Against Arizona State in the quarterfinal round of the 2024 College Football Playoff, Ewers threw for 322 yards and completed a 4th-and-13 pass that kept UT’s season alive.

Ewers, however, never fully lived up to the hype associated with being rated as a perfect prospect in a 2021 recruiting class that also included future first-round picks Caleb Williams, J.J. McCarthy and Drake Maye. Injuries cost Ewers multiple games in each of his seasons at Texas, and fans and media members alike spent much of the past two seasons speculating over what the UT offense would look like with his backup, Arch Manning, under center. Texas is also still searching for its first national championship since 2005.

Still, Ewers leaves Texas with the third-most touchdown passes and third-most passing yards in school history. Colt McCoy, Vince Young and Bobby Layne, who all have had their numbers retired by Texas, are the only quarterbacks who won more games with the Longhorns.

“I’m super proud of Quinn. He’s taught me a lot, probably unknowingly to him, because what he went through every year dealing with injury, what he goes through where I don’t know if he’d ever live up to the standards of what everybody thinks he’s supposed to be,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said after the Cotton Bowl. “But at the end of the day, all he did was show up every day and work and be a great leader and be a great teammate. And that’s a real credit to him because human nature, in this day and age, is to look at Twitter, to look at Instagram, to look at social media and articles written and fan boards and whatever else. And you can ride that emotional roller coaster of whatever you think public opinion could be, and that could be the opinion of one or a hundred or whatever.

“But this guy never did that. All he did was come to work every day. All he did was be a great teammate. All he did was work on his craft, get himself as healthy as he could when he was injured, and then show up when it was time to show up.”