Texas Longhorns Basketball: No. 11 Baylor vs. No. 10 Texas Preview

The No. 10 ranked Texas Longhorns are looking to rebound in short oder tonight playing host to a red hot Baylor Bears team.

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The Longhorns (17-4, 6-2) are coming off a 82-71 loss in Knoxville Saturday to Tennessee. The No. 11 ranked Bears (16-5, 5-3) have won six games in a row, including beating Arkansas 67-64 Saturday in Waco.

The Longhorns are 10-3 under interim head coach Rodney Terry.

How to watch the game

Baylor and Texas tipoff at 8 p.m. central on ESPN with Jon Sciambi (play by play), Fran Fraschilla (analyst) and Kris Budden (reporter) calling the action.

The game will be played at the Moody Center (10,673) – Austin, Texas

The Longhorns lead the series 163-96. Baylor won the last meeting 68-61 February 28, 2022 in Austin.

Big 12 conference race

No. 13 Iowa State Cyclones (15-5, 6-2)
Cyclones games this week: at Texas Tech, Kansas

No. 7 Kansas State Wildcats (18-3, 6-2)
Wildcats games this week: at Kansas, Texas

No. 10 Texas Longhorns (17-4, 6-2)
Longhorns games this week: Baylor, at Kansas State

No. 15 TCU Horned Frogs (16-5, 5-3)
Horned Frogs games this week: West Virginia, at Oklahoma State

No. 11 Baylor Bears (16-5, 5-3)
Bears games this week: at Texas, Texas Tech

No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks (17-4, 5-3)
Jayhawks games this week: Kansas State, at Iowa State

Oklahoma State Cowboys (12-9, 3-5)
Cowboys games this week: at Oklahoma, TCU

Oklahoma Sooners (12-9, 2-6)
Sooners games this week: Oklahoma State, at West Virginia

West Virginia Mountaineers (13-8, 2-6)
Mountaineers games this week: at TCU, Oklahoma

Texas Tech Red Raiders (11-10, 0-8)
Red Raiders games this week: Iowa State, at Baylor

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The Rodney Terry File

Rodney Terry enters Tuesday with a career record of 173-159. He has been a head coach at the Division I level for ten year prior to joining Chris Beard’s staff in Austin.

Terry built the Fresno State program up in his time in California. The Bulldogs won 20 or more games in four of Terry’s last five seasons. That included three times in post season play. Terry has a 0-1 record in the NCAA Tournament.

The Scott Drew File

Scott Drew is in his 20th season as head coach of Baylor. He has a 413-227 record in Knoxville, including 171-158 in Big 12 play. Drew coached one season at Valpariso prior to be hired by the Bears. He posted a 20-11 record that season.

Drew sports an NCAA Tournament record of 17-9 in 10 career appearances. Baylor won the National Championship in 2021, and have advanced to three Elite Eight’s and five Sweet 16’s.

Baylor Bears starters

G Adam Flagler, 6-3, senior (15.5 points, 2.5 rebounds, 4.9 assists)

G L.J. Cryer, 6-1, junior (14.5 points, 2.1 rebounds, 2.0 assists)

G Keyonte George, 6-4, freshman (17.2 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.2 assists)

F Jalen Bridges, 6-7, junior (9.6 points, 5.7 rebounds)

PF Flo Thamba, 6-10, senior (5.2 points, 5.1 rebounds)

Key reserves

Key reserves for the Bears are 6-2 senior Dale Bonner (4.3 points, 3.1 assists), Langston Love (6.5 points, 2.1 rebounds), 6-8 junior Caleb Lohner (4.0 points, 4.4 rebounds), and 6-10 freshman Josh Ojianwuna (5.3 points, 4.2 rebounds).

Texas starters

PG Tyrese Hunter, 6-1, sophomore (10.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists)

CG Marcus Carr, 6-2, super senior (17.3 points, 3.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists, 1.8 steals)

F Timmy Allen, 6-6, super senior (10.5 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.3 assists)

F Dillon Mitchell, 6-8, freshman (6.2 points, 4.7 rebounds, 0.8 steals)

PF Dylan Disu, 6-9, senior (7.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.6 blocks)

The reserves 

SG Sir’Jabari Rice, 6-4, super senior (10.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.2 assists)

PF Christian Bishop, 6-7, super senior (6.9 points, 3.6 rebounds, 0.9 steals)

CG Arterio Morris, 6-3, freshman (5.6 points, 1.9 rebounds, 0.8 assists)

F Brock Cunningham, 6-6, senior (5.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, 0.9 steals) 

PF Alex Anamekwe, 6-5.5, freshman (2.0 points, 0.8 rebounds)

SG Gavin Perryman, 6-1, redshirt freshman (Logged 36 minutes through 21 games)