No. 4 Texas beats N. Arizona 73-48 in Rio Grande Valley

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Marcus Carr scored 17 factors and fourth-ranked Texas beat Northern Arizona 73-48 on Monday evening within the first recreation the Longhorns have ever performed within the Rio Grande Valley in far South Texas.

“Possibly as necessary as the sport tonight was bringing Texas and our model and our program right down to the Valley, and I assumed that was superior,” Longhorns coach Chris Beard mentioned.

Carr had 10 of his factors when Texas (4-0) scored 17 in a row for a 41-11 lead late within the first half. Dylan Disu had an alley-oop dunk on a move from Tyrese Hunter to start out that five-minute stretch earlier than Carr had back-to-back 3-pointers.

Texas performed for the primary time since its 93-74 dismantling at house final Wednesday over then-No. 2 Gonzaga. The Longhorns moved up seven spots within the new AP High 25 earlier Monday, whereas the Bulldogs dropped 4 spots to sixth.

Arterio Morris added 11 factors for Texas, which shot 50% (28 of 56). Hunter and Disu every had 10 factors, whereas Timmy Allen had 10 rebounds.

Xavier Fuller had 15 factors for Northern Arizona (2-4), which completed with extra turnovers (21) than made discipline targets (17).

“I take a look at our gamers as a basketball household, and within the first half, I assumed we received punked. I used to be sincere, and we received after them at halftime,” Northern Arizona coach Shane Burcar mentioned. “The rating is irrelevant to us, however I feel they received the message. … We want a couple of extra gamers to step up and be a bit of bit extra edgy. All of them received the message.”

The Longhorns led 50-22 at halftime, then shot solely 29.2% (7 of 24) from the sphere whereas scoring solely 23 factors within the second half.

“We performed rather well within the first half, and within the second half, it was not our higher 20 minutes,” Beard mentioned. “I used to be actually impressed with Northern Arizona how they stored chipping away and mainly performed actual basketball within the final 20 minutes. So tons to study from for our guys and we’ll embrace that.”

The sport was performed within the house area of the NBA G League’s Rio Grande Valley Vipers, which is about 300 miles south of the Longhorns campus house in Austin, and never removed from the U.S.-Mexico border.

HONORING COACH

The sport was a part of the Leon Black Basic honoring the previous Longhorns participant and coach who handed away final yr at age 89.

“One of many all-time nice coaches, nice males, nice former gamers, nice assistant coaches and clearly nice head coaches that our program’s ever had,” Beard mentioned. “And a trailblazer in our sport, gave so many alternatives, first black gamers to play at Texas. It’s simply superior to honor coach and his household.”

BIG PICTURE

Northern Arizona: The Lumberjacks of the Huge Sky Convention led solely as soon as, when Fuller made a floater on the sport’s first shot. That lead lasted 18 seconds earlier than Texas scored eight factors in a row.

Texas: Carr had 14 of his factors by halftime, when Texas had extra factors off turnovers (24) than the Lumberjacks scored. The Longhorns made 14 of their first 18 pictures, and had been taking pictures 65.6% on the break (21 of 32), together with 6 of 12 on 3-pointers.

UP NEXT

Northern Arizona performs in Edinburg once more Tuesday, in opposition to hometown workforce UT Rio Grande Valley, which beat Western Illinois 78-77 on Ahren Freeman’s buzzer-beating layup within the first recreation of the doubleheader Monday.

Texas hosts UT Rio Grande Valley on Saturday on the Austin campus, however that recreation received’t be performed on the new Moody Heart. It will likely be at Gregory Gymnasium, the place the Longhorns performed house video games till 1977, and their house when Black was head coach from 1967-76.

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