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NEW YORK – No. 2 seed Texas finally got the best of No. 1 seed TCU Tuesday night, scoring a 58-44 win in the NIT semifinals at Madison Square Garden.
No. 5 seed Lipscomb defeated No. 6 seed Wichita State in the earlier semifinal game, setting up a championship clash between the Longhorns and Bison Thursday night.
“I told our guys before the game, we don’t want to stop playing,” Texas coach Shaka Smart said. “We want to play one more after tonight. TCU had really, really gotten the better of us the last two times we played. So our guys were really motivated to beat them and it started on the defensive end. That was huge.”
Some notes and takeaways from UT’s payback game against TCU:
Texas continued its run of stifling first-half defense.
TCU crawled out to an 8-5 lead, an opening punctuated by center Kevin Samuel’s vicious one-handed tomahawk slam over Texas forward Jericho Sims with 16:28 remaining in the first half.
The Horned Frogs managed only nine more points before the halftime buzzer delivered some mercy. The 17 first-half points were the fewest allowed by Texas this year, besting the 19 it held Colorado to in the previous game.
“We thought we did a heck of a job on Colorado holding them to 19,” senior forward Dylan Osetkowski said. “But holding TCU to 17, we continue to raise the bar for ourselves. Whether we hold the next team to 16 or under 20, that’s what we’re trying to do.”
Seniors step up under the spotlight.
Neither Dylan Osetkowski nor Kerwin Roach II had ever played in Madison Square Garden prior to Tuesday night.
The seniors’ introduction to the mecca went about as well as they could have hoped for.
Osetkowski scored 11 of his 13 points in the second half and added nine...
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No. 5 seed Lipscomb defeated No. 6 seed Wichita State in the earlier semifinal game, setting up a championship clash between the Longhorns and Bison Thursday night.
“I told our guys before the game, we don’t want to stop playing,” Texas coach Shaka Smart said. “We want to play one more after tonight. TCU had really, really gotten the better of us the last two times we played. So our guys were really motivated to beat them and it started on the defensive end. That was huge.”
Some notes and takeaways from UT’s payback game against TCU:
Texas continued its run of stifling first-half defense.
TCU crawled out to an 8-5 lead, an opening punctuated by center Kevin Samuel’s vicious one-handed tomahawk slam over Texas forward Jericho Sims with 16:28 remaining in the first half.
The Horned Frogs managed only nine more points before the halftime buzzer delivered some mercy. The 17 first-half points were the fewest allowed by Texas this year, besting the 19 it held Colorado to in the previous game.
“We thought we did a heck of a job on Colorado holding them to 19,” senior forward Dylan Osetkowski said. “But holding TCU to 17, we continue to raise the bar for ourselves. Whether we hold the next team to 16 or under 20, that’s what we’re trying to do.”
Seniors step up under the spotlight.
Neither Dylan Osetkowski nor Kerwin Roach II had ever played in Madison Square Garden prior to Tuesday night.
The seniors’ introduction to the mecca went about as well as they could have hoped for.
Osetkowski scored 11 of his 13 points in the second half and added nine...
View the full article
