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Texas Basketball: Latest USA Today Sports’ Bracketology

In the aftermath of the Longhorns’ last-second victory over Oklahoma, Texas has jumped into the NCAA tournament conversation.

In the aftermath of the Longhorns’ last-second win over the Sooners, Texas has suddenly found themselves in the conversation of the NCAA Tournament. Following the game ESPN’s Joe Lunardi proclaimed that Texas was in among the final four in.

USA Today Sports’ has now released their latest bracketology. The Texas Longhorns come in as the number 11 seed in the West Region in the latest report from Shelby Mast and Scott Gleeson. Texas gives the Big 12 six teams that would be going dancing. Despite the fact that Texas is ahead of West Virginia and Oklahoma in the standings, the Longhorns have the lowest seed of any of the Big 12 teams.

Of course Selection Sunday is all that matters in terms of who will officially be invited to the dance, the Longhorns have one game remaining against Oklahoma State prior to the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City, MO.

Right now Texas is the third seed along with Texas Tech, who will host Kansas on Saturday. Should Texas and Kansas win their games, the Longhorns would be in sole possession of the third seed and would play Oklahoma in the quarterfinals as everything stands at this point.

Texas Basketball Banks in Game Winning Three to Beat Oklahoma

Thanks to Matt Coleman’s heroic three-point shot, UT pulled out a 52-51 win against arch-rival Oklahoma. UT has now won five straight games.

Going into Tuesday night, Texas was riding a four-game winning streak and were just on the edge of being projected into the NCAA Tournament. Traveling to Norman to face arch-rival Oklahoma gave the Longhorns a chance to jump into the field with a win.

Thanks to Matt Coleman’s heroic three-point shot with 0.4 seconds left, Texas pulled out a 52-51 win, extending the winning streak to five games. Coleman was the only Longhorn in double figures, having 21 points on 9-15 shooting, including 3-5 from behind the line.

Outside of Coleman, the rest of the Texas team struggled offensively, with Andrew Jones being second in scoring. As a whole, the Longhorns shot 28.6% from behind the arc. Only six assists were recorded by Shaka Smart’s team, their lowest total since the Feb 3 matchup against Kansas.

Defensively, Texas was amazing, holding Oklahoma to its lowest total of the season. The Sooners really struggle from deep, going 2-20 from three-point land. Guards Austin Reaves and De’Vion Harmon were the only two Oklahoma players to see the ball go through the hoop from behind the arc.

As he has been all season, Kristian Doolittle was the one bright spot for the Sooners. The senior forward recorded his ninth double-double of the season, scoring 20 points while securing 10 rebounds.

Texas’ free throw numbers continued to struggle, as they only attempted two all night. Only because of an Austin Reaves flagrant one foul did the Longhorns get to the free-throw line, with both shots being hit by Andrew Jones.

Catching fire in the past five games, the Longhorns now have the opportunity to finish third in the Big 12, the highest under Shaka Smart. If Texas takes care of business at home against Oklahoma State and Texas Tech loses to Kansas in Lubbock, the Longhorns will go into the Big 12 tournament with the three seed.

Texas will face the Cowboys on Saturday at 3 p.m. CST on ESPN2.

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