Cliffs Notes: Texas Tech took control of the game early in the second half and outplayed the Longhorns over the course of 40 minutes, beating Texas at the Moody Center 78-67 on Saturday night.
The Participants: No. 20/22 Texas (11-3, 0-1 Big 12) and Texas Tech (12-2, 1-0 Big 12)
Pre-Game Ken Pom Rankings: Texas (No. 31) and Texas Tech (No. 38)
Game MVP: The guards on both teams played well, but Tech sophomore Pop Isaacs followed a 23-point performance a year ago in the Moody Center with a game-high 21 points on 7 of 15 shooting tonight. Six of his 21 points came in the final 2:51.
Key Moment: Tyrese Hunter missed two free throws with the Longhorns down by 6 with 3:13 left in the game. Tech followed up those misses with a lay-up and a dunk to push the lead back to 10 points. The game was essentially over.
Cold Stretch No. 1: Following a Dylan Disu lay-up that cut Tech's lead to 52-51 with 12:06 left in the game, Tech went on a 9-1 run over a 3:33 stretch to make it 61-52 before a Max Abmas three-point shot ended the run with 8:31 left. The Longhorns were never able to cut the lead below five points the rest of the night.
Cold Stretch No. 2 The Longhorns went 4 minutes without scoring in the first half, which saw a Texas 17-10 lead turn into Tech taking a 20-17 lead during that stretch. Overall, the Longhorns hit only 12 of their first 29 shots of the game in the first 20 minutes.
History: With a made 3-point shot at the 17:26 mark in the second half, Max Abmas passed J.J. Redick on the NCAA's all-time 3-point shots made list and now sits in fourth place, trailing third place Travis Bader (Purdue 2010-14) by 44 made threes by the end of the night.
Mr. Double-Double: Sophomore Dillon Mitchell collected his 6th double-double of the season with a 16-point/11-rebound performance.
Thing You Need to Know: Thank goodness for Tyrese Hunter in the first half because without his 14 points on 6 of 10 shooting, this game might have gotten away from an otherwise cold-shooting Horns (6 of 19 from the floor without Hunter).
Half-time team triple splits: Texas (41.4/37.5/75.0), Tech (50.0/42.9/66.7)
"You've Got to Coordinate": Shout out to the all-time great John Witherspoon from the movie Boomerang on this one.
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Box Score: Not that it will make anyone feel any better.