In the lockerroom after the game, Texas Men’s Basketball head coach Rodney Terry said to the team, “A win is a win. This time of year in conference play you take them any way you can get it. You grind them out. We are talking about the attitude of the overcomer. No obstacles, nothing you can’t overcome.”
Both teams shot 36% from the field hitting just 21 shots by Texas and 20 by Kansas State. Both teams took 19 shots each from behind the three-point arc. Texas made three, Kansas State sank five othe them. Dylan Disu carried the team with 20 points,10 points from the field and 10 points from the free throw line.
Had just one team shot this low, it could have been said they had an off team. Both teams missed so many times you have to wonder if the basketball as either lopsided, or the basket off kilter.
Texas held the lead the entire game by single digits and briefly by double digits five times in the second half by 12 points once, late in the second half.
The highlight, besides the win, came in the second half with 7:21 when Max Abmas scored his seventh point of the game from the free throw line that gave him a career 3,000 points. Only 12 players in NCAA D1 Men’s Basketball history have reached this many points. Abmas now has 3,002 points.
Texas travels to Lawrence, Kansas to take on No. 9 Kansas on Feb 24 (Sat) with a 5 pm tipoff. The game will be televised on ESPN and broadcast on Sirius XM 375
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