For the Texas women’s basketball team, a busy week began with a win.
Kentucky
Texas vs. Kentucky basketball: Replay, highlights as Texas beats another ranked opponent
Justice Carlton scored 17 points to lead No. 4 Texas to a 64-53 win over No. 16 Kentucky at Moody Center. With the victory, Texas extended its home winning streak to 40 games.
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Texas (23-2, 8-2) has also beaten a ranked opponent in each of its last three games. The Longhorns are 9-2 against top-25 teams this season.
Carlton scored 12 of her points during Monday’s first quarter, and she later knocked down a big 3-pointer after Kentucky made things interesting in the final frame. Carlton has scored at least 16 points in two of her last three games, and she also had a 17-point game against Auburn last month.
In addition to Carlton’s contributions, Texas got 13 points from sophomore guard Jordan Lee. Texas junior Madison Booker was limited to a season-low eight points while shooting 1-for-6 from the field, but the All-American forward did tally five rebounds, four assists and two steals.
More: Longhorns believe freshman Aaliyah Crump has the ‘it’ factor
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Kentucky (18-7, 5-6) was led by Asia Boone’s 16 points while Clara Strack and Tonie Morgan respectively added 14 and 12 points. Kentucky trailed by as many as 14 points in Monday’s third quarter, but the Wildcats weren’t able to complete their rally after pulling within 49-48 with 6:23 left.
Up next for Texas is Thursday’s trip to see a fifth-ranked Vanderbilt team that has SEC Player of the Year candidate Mikayla Blakes and former UT guard Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda on its roster. The Longhorns will then play a road game at No. 22 Tennessee this upcoming Sunday.
Texas Longhorns guard Rori Harmon (3) and Kentucky Wildcats guard Asia Boone (8) dive for the ball as Texas takes on Kentucky at The Moody Center in Austin Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.
Texas vs. Kentucky: Live updates, highlights
4th (3:13): Texas 56, Kentucky 50
Texas sophomore forward Justice Carlton’s fifth 3-pointer of the season has extended the Texas lead back to six points. Carlton has scored 17 points tonight.
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4th (4:58): Texas 51, Kentucky 48
With two free throws, senior center Kyla Oldacre has given Texas a little bit of breathing room since its last timeout. Oldacre will also shoot two free throws after this media timeout.
Kentucky had a chance to tie the game, but Asia Boone’s 3-point attempt rimmed out with 5:13 left. Boone has made four of her six deep tries tonight.
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4th (6:14): Texas 49, Kentucky 48
A bad fourth-quarter stretch by reserve forward Ashton Judd has opened the door for a Kentucky rally. Judd made her first appearance of the night with 8:11 left in the game and subsequently missed two free throws, badly missed a 3-pointer and committed a turnover. With Judd and the rest of her Texas team struggling, Kentucky went on a 5-0 run and forced a UT timeout.
For those doing math at home, Kentucky trails by one points. The Wildcats are 8-for-15 from the free throw line.
End 3: Texas 48, Kentucky 41
Texas struggled offensively in the third quarter, but Kentucky wasn’t much better over the past 10 minutes. The Longhorns were held to 10 points in the third quarter while shooting 26.7% from the field and committing six turnovers. Meanwhile, Kentucky missed eight of its 12 shots in the third quarter and gave away the basketball on seven occasions.
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Justice Carlton leads Texas with her 14 points, but the sophomore forward has scored just once since the first quarter. Kentucky guard Asia Boone leads all scorers with her 16 points.
3rd (4:42): Texas 45, Kentucky 35
Despite having as many turnovers as made shots in the second half (three), Texas has maintained its 10-point lead over the visiting Wildcats. Texas has also forced four Kentucky turnovers in the second half, two of which were offensive fouls on UK guard Teonni Key that were drawn by UT counterparts Rori Harmon and Jordan Lee.
Halftime: Texas 38, Kentucky 28
Behind Justice Carlton’s 12 points and the 13 turnovers forced by its defense, Texas has built a 10-point lead at the halftime break. Texas scored the final 10 points of the first half.
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So far this season, Texas is 22-0 when it leads at halftime.
In addition to Carlton’s offensive efforts, Texas got eight points from Jordan Lee and six points from Madison Booker. Senior guard Rori Harmon ended the halftime with her first basket, which were scored on a highlight-reel play in which she broke down a UK defender and knocked down a jumper.
Asia Boone leads Kentucky with her 12 points. Boone has been responsible for four of Kentucky’s six 3-pointers.
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2nd (7:01): Kentucky 28, Texas 28
Kentucky guard Asia Boone has knocked down all three of the 3-pointers that she has attempted in the second quarter. Two of those 3-pointers were made in the past 30 seconds, and Texas coach Vic Schaefer was forced to take a timeout after the Liberty transfer knocked down an open try from behind the arch.
End 1: Texas 23, Kentucky 19
The first quarter belonged to the Longhorns’ sophomore class as Justice Carlton and Jordan Lee combined to score 17 points. The No. 9 and No. 12 prospects in the 2024 recruiting class, Lee and Carlton were respectively averaging 10.8 and 7.9 points per game in conference play. Lee opened Monday’s game with five quick points while Carlton scored 12.
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Carlton shot 6-for-7 from the field with her only miss being a 3-pointer, and the 6-foot-1 forward also recorded two steals and a block. Lee made two of her three attempts and a free throw.
Kentucky seized two short-lived leads in the first quarter. The Wildcats made three 3-pointers but also committed five turnovers.
1st (4:22): Texas 11, Kentucky 8
Justice Carlton scored eight of the Longhorns’ first 11 points, and Jordan Lee has also chipped in three early points. Madison Booker has been held without a shot so far, but UT’s leading scorer has assists on baskets scored by Carlton and Lee.
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Kentucky center Clara Strack is responsible for half of her team’s points.
Texas Longhorns starting lineup
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Kentucky Wildcats starting lineup
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Texas basketball vs Kentucky time, TV info
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Texas fans react to a play in the fourth quarter of the Longhorns’ game against the LSU Tigers at the Moody Center in Austin, Feb. 5, 2026. Texas won the game 77-64.
Texas hasn’t lost at Moody Center in a while
At stake for Texas on Monday night will be a 39-game home winning streak, which is tied with TCU for the longest active streak among Division I basketball teams. Texas last lost at home on Jan. 24, 2024 against rival Oklahoma. Since then, UT has pieced together a winning streak that includes 11 regular-season wins over ranked opponents and four victories in the NCAA tournament.
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Texas owns an overall record of 64-5 at Moody Center, which opened ahead of the 2022-23 season.
Before Moody Center opened, Texas called the Erwin Center its home for 45 seasons. The Longhorns’ longest winning streak in that venue was a 45-game run that spanned four seasons in the 1980s.
Texas Longhorns guard Rori Harmon (3) fakes out Louisiana State Tigers guard Milaysia Fulwiley (23) in the third quarter of the Longhorns’ game against the LSU Tigers at the Moody Center in Austin, Feb. 5, 2026.
Sara Diggins/Austin American-StatesmanTexas Longhorns basketball results
- Nov. 3: Texas 123, Incarnate Word 51
- Nov. 7: Texas 85, Richmond 56
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Nov. 10:
- Nov. 16: Texas 111, Texas Southern 45
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Nov. 19:
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Nov. 26:
- Nov. 27: Texas 66, South Carolina 64
- Nov. 30: Texas 81, Penn 63
- Dec. 4: Texas 79, North Carolina 64
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Dec. 7:
- Dec. 10: Texas 110, UTRGV 45
- Dec. 14: Texas 89, Baylor 54
- Dec. 17: Texas 96, Northwestern State 38
- Dec. 22: Texas 70, South Dakota State 51
- Dec. 28: Texas 120, Southeastern Louisiana 38
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Jan. 1:
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Jan. 8:
- Jan. 11: LSU 70, Texas 65
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Jan. 15:
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Jan. 18:
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Jan. 29:
- Feb. 1: Texas 78, Oklahoma 70
- Feb. 5: Texas 77, LSU 64
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Jim Obergefell talks LGBTQ+ rights 10 years after Supreme Court ruling
Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized gay marriage nationwide, looks back on its impact 10 years later.
Happy Pride Month!
About 9% of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual, and some places are safer for and more welcoming of those in the LGBTQ+ community.
Here’s how Kentucky ranks compared to other states.
How Kentucky ranks for being welcoming, safe for LGBTQ+ members
Kentucky ranks No. 35 out of 50 states for being welcoming of the LGBTQ+ community, according to Out Leadership’s State LGBTQ+ Business Climate Index. While the commonwealth has climbed eight spots since 2019, it earned about 41 out of 100 possible points, receiving a B- grade.
The report comes as national scores continue to decline. The average state score has fallen for four consecutive years and now sits at 53.1, with 26 states scoring below 60, Out Leadership founder and CEO Todd Sears told USA TODAY.
The index suggests acceptance of LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. has declined in recent years, reversing progress that once improved the well-being and safety of LGBTQ+ communities, Sears said.
“When we started this index eight years ago, the goal was to show Americans the issues that were still live but invisible — HIV criminalization, conversion therapy, where state legislators actually stood — because once marriage equality passed, a lot of people assumed the work was done. It wasn’t,” Sears said. “What we’ve documented since is a genuine regression.”
This year, Out Leadership added 12 new indicators measuring the effects of policies affecting LGBTQ+ people, including restrictions on bathroom access, pronoun and name use and gender-affirming care for adults. Sears said the additions were made to better capture policies that have increasingly affected LGBTQ+ residents and their families.
“For the last several years, we simply weren’t capturing forces that were already hitting LGBTQ+ citizens and their families,” Sears said.
SafeHome.org also ranks Kentucky on the lower side for LGBTQ+ safety. The state ranks No. 27 out of 51 jurisdictions, including Washington, D.C., and received a score of 80.7 and a B- grade.
The rankings are based on a score that combines state laws affecting LGBTQ+ residents and hate crime data. Researchers evaluated laws across several policy areas using input from a survey of more than 1,000 LGBTQ+ people and paired the results with FBI hate crime statistics before calculating the final scores.
Contributing: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY Network. Reach Marina Johnson at Marina.Johnson@courier-journal.com.
Kentucky got consecutive home runs from Jayce Tharnish and Tyler Bell to take a 9-6 lead over West Virginia. Chase Alderman and Nile Adcock combined to record five consecutive scoreless innings. The Bat Cats were three outs away from reaching — and hosting — a super regional.
West Virginia had other plans.
Free passes, a balk, and a three-run home run from Paul Schoenfield plated five runs in the ninth. It was absolute chaos in Kendrick Family Ballpark. Kentucky snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
That sets up one final game between the Wildcats and the Mountaineers again, but this one could sting for some time. Jeff Drummond and myself are reacting to the crushing loss by taking a look at what went wrong, how it got off the rails so quickly. and what could be on the horizon for tomorrow.
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There is a ton of stress right now in Lexington as Mark Pope and the staff are trying to land Milan Momcilovic, but this recruitment is being stretched out, which isn’t good for Kentucky. It sounds like the Wildcats have the highest offer NIL money wise, but he still hasn’t committed which has Kentucky fans scratching their heads.
Since Momcilovic pulled his name out of the NBA Draft on Wednesday night, Kentucky fans have felt pretty good about him being a Wildcat, but with the Wildcats being the hot name in the recruitment, fans wanted this done sooner rather than later. The other schools that are involved in this recruitment are Louisville and Arizona.
Louisville has spent a ton of money this offseason, but it sounds like they still have more in the tank, knowing their offer isn’t far off from Kentucky’s, according to reports. Arizona hasn’t offered as much as these two schools, so if Momcilovic were in it for the money, one would imagine that he ends up at Louisville or Kentucky.
When it comes to his system fit at these two schools, he fits in well with what both Pope and Pat Kelsey want to do. These teams want to shoot the three-ball a ton, and Momcilovic is the best shooter in college basketball. Both Kentucky and Louisville are in need of some shooters, so he would be a massive addition to either of these rosters.
Knowing the Wildcats had a ton of early momentum in this recruitment, Big Blue Nation wanted this to be a done deal late last week or early this weekend. It is midday on Sunday, and there is no word on his recruitment. It is head-scratching for Kentucky fans knowing that the Wildcats have a massive offer on the table, but he still hasn’t picked Kentucky.
While I do believe he will end up in Lexington, it is definitely a little bit concerning that he hasn’t done it already, knowing the Wildcats have thrown a ton of money his way. Pope knows how important adding a player like Momcilovic is to the upside of this team, so if he isn’t able to land him, things could get ugly next season in Lexington.
There is a world where he could commit later this evening, but if this keeps drawing out over the next few days, it really seems like Momcilovic might not want to be a Wildcat unless he is looking for more NIL money.
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