Texas Longhorns Hand No. 10 Vanderbilt Its First Loss In Upset Win

The Texas Longhorns men's hoops is uncovering its stride during nan commencement of SEC play, and building a NCAA Tournament resume successful nan process.

Matas Vokietaitis scored a game-high 22 points and Tramon Mark added 21 points of his ain arsenic Texas gave No. 10 Vanderbilt its first nonaccomplishment of nan play successful convincing fashion, beating nan Commodores 80-64 astatine nan Moody Center connected Wednesday night.

With nan victory, nan Longhorns unafraid back-to-back Top-15 wins successful SEC play.

Texas Longhorns Coming Alive

After an 0-2 commencement successful SEC play, nan Longhorns now person 2 of nan biggest wins successful nan full convention up to this constituent successful nan season.

Texas dominated nan glass, out-rebounding Vanderbilt 42-24. The Longhorns besides had a 30-14 separator connected points successful nan paint.

Dailyn Swain flirted pinch a triple-double for Texas, finishing pinch 14 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists. Jordan Pope added 12 points for nan Longhorns.

Both teams started retired basking connected offense, arsenic Pope and Mark some deed early triples for Texas while Nickel and Tanner countered pinch a brace of their ain to necktie nan crippled astatine 10-10.

Texas deed its first 4 shots of nan crippled but that hardly fazed nan No. 10 squad successful nan country.

Miles started to drawback fire, arsenic his 3rd triple of nan first half astatine nan seven-minute people gave Vandy a 28-27 lead earlier Vokietaitis gave it correct backmost to Texas connected a beautiful step-through successful nan paint.

The Longhorns past started to drawback momentum toward nan extremity of nan half acknowledgment to a 7-0 tally earlier nan under-4 timeout. Swain banked successful a reliable runner disconnected nan solid earlier finishing a contested layup successful transition.

He followed this up pinch a plaything walk to nan area to Camden Heide, who drilled nan triple to springiness Texas a 38-30 lead pinch 2:58 near successful nan first half.

After a fastbreak dunk from Vokietaitis gave Texas a 40-30 lead, nan Longhorns looked for illustration they would beryllium heading into halftime pinch a double-digit lead, but Vanderbilt utilized a speedy 5-0 tally highlighted by a area triple from Nickel.

The Longhorns led 42-37 astatine halftime, marking nan first clip each play that Vanderbilt trailed astatine nan break.

Texas came retired of halftime pinch a backdoor dunk from Swain and a area 3 from Mark to build a 48-42 lead.

Mark kept things rolling pinch 2 isolation triples from nan apical of nan cardinal astatine nan extremity of nan changeable timepiece to springiness nan Longhorns a

Vanderbilt trim nan lead down to arsenic fewer arsenic 4 successful nan 2nd half, but it wasn't enough. The Longhorns strung together aggregate cardinal stops and started to propulsion away.

Texas turned things into a dunk fest late, and rolled to a win.