J'Covan and the Horns handling OU

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

almost final

[bullets13]

they needed this one.  glad to see they bounced back.

[Coach Schrapps]

More appropriate title...James and the Horns...It's James team.

[shorttexas1]

They did not get into the offense until so late in the game!!!  No fluent offense until late in the second half.  They need to start that way!

[ForeverADog]

Play 40 minutes like they did the last 10 and they will be fine. Easier said than done though....

[CRUSHCOACH]

Its a much needed win. But geeze they still look bad. What happened to the team that was ranked #2 and #1 at the first of the year ? ??? They're lucky they were playing Oklahoma last night and not Kansas or any other top 10 team. They would have been so far behind by the end of the first half they could have never caught up.

  Gotta pull it together NOW.

[PNGFan]

Looks like J'Covan is back to his normal ways.

Baylor leaves orange burning
Anger boils over in Texas’ latest loss
By MIKE FINGER Austin Bureau
March 12, 2010, 12:47AM



KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For two months it built inside of them, even while they consistently denied it. As each loss piled on the next and a No. 1 national ranking gave way to a staggering collapse, the Texas Longhorns insisted they were fine, refusing to allow anything to spill over into an outward show of frustration.

But Thursday in the Big 12 tournament, against an opponent they used to dominate but suddenly can’t beat, it finally came pouring out. With quick-tempered words here, an angry spike of the ball there, and pained faces all over the court, the Longhorns could no longer hide their dejection as they suffered an 86-67 loss to Baylor at Sprint Center.

The third-seeded Bears outperformed and outclassed the sixth-seeded Longhorns in almost every way. Ekpe Udoh scored 25 points, Tweety Carter had 20, and LaceDarius Dunn had 19 to lead Baylor to its first four-game winning streak over UT in 27 years, with three of the wins coming this season and two in the last six days.

“We wanted to come and show we belong,” Carter said. “Our season is bigger than beating Texas.”

Baylor (25-6), having received a first-round bye for the first time in the 14-year history of the tournament, advanced to tonight’s semifinal game against second-seeded Kansas State.  

The Longhorns (24-9), who won their first 24 games against the Bears under coach Rick Barnes, continued to experience not only their Baylor-related problems but also the bigger ones that have led to a two-month implosion. After starting the season 17-0, UT heads to the NCAA Tournament having lost nine of 16 games and looking poised to receive a seed in the Nos. 6-9 range.

“It really sums up our season the last couple of months,” Barnes said of Thursday’s loss. “We went through a 4-to-5-minute stretch where we unraveled.”

Signs of UT’s desperation were evident all night. Freshman guard [b]J’Covan Brown, benched for the second consecutive game, earned a technical foul without even taking off his warmups. Early in the first half, after Carter bumped James, Dunn stepped in to separate them heading into a timeout. Brown came onto the floor and started jawing at Dunn, with both players receiving technicals[/b].

Later, as the teams headed into the locker rooms at halftime, James and Dunn exchanged more heated words. James — who led UT with 18 points and 12 rebounds — received a technical of his own when he spiked the ball hard after UT gave up a basket in the second half.

Baylor, meanwhile, had to weather one brief UT run in the second half — the Longhorns cut it to five with 8:13 left — but otherwise cruised.

“We were having fun out there,” Udoh said. “You could see it on our faces.”

And this time, the Longhorns’ faces were just as revealing.

[badndn]

Was he benched because of his attitude or play?

[CRUSHCOACH]

Bottom line Texas has too many [b]INDIVIDUALS[/b] playing for themselves ! And the [b]TEAM[/b] is paying the price for it. Never have seen a team with so much talent play so CRAPPY ! It's really embarrassing. They also don't have a TRUE Point Guard that can shoot and pass, without turning the ball over.