OU Out-Hustles Texas

The University of Texas Longhorn women’s basketball team fell with a large thud to the University of Oklahoma Sooners, 91-to-87.  OU controlled most of the game with Texas threatening only in the final minutes of the contest. 

Texas head coach Vic Schaefer summed up this team’s performance:  “We didn’t play well.  We played terrible.  We played with on juice, no energy, and no fight.  We happened, with five minutes to go, to try to play a little bit better.  Well, that’s too late.  That’s just too late.  That doesn’t show me except that you just didn’t want to do it in the first 35.  That’s not acceptable.  I don’t care where I’m coaching, I don’t care if I’m at Tim Buck Two, you ain’t going to play for me like that.  That is not acceptable.  And it damn sure ain’t acceptable at Texas.” 

Yes, the game was that bad. 

The Sooner out-worked, out-hustled, and out-toughed Longhorn, winning most every 50/50 ball.  OU passes were not denied with Texas consistently turning their backs to the ball.  Ball pressure appeared to be absent.  Personnel were mis-guarded, and Texas help-off the wrong person from the wrong place. 

Texas led for six and one-half minutes, leading 23-to-17 at the end of the first quarter.  But OU wrenched control of the game in the second frame, taking a 45-to-39 lead into the locker room at the half. 

Texas can with one point on Madison Booker’s layup with 59 seconds remaining, but Lexy Keys’ three point created the margin OU needed to seal a victory. 

Offensively, Texas played well, shooting 47% from the field, 33% (3-for-9) from beyond the arc, and 79% from the charity stripe.  Madison Booker led all players with 29 points and Shay Holle followed with 22. 

Defensively, Texas fell apart, allowing OU 10 three-pointers (37%) and giving the Sooner a 16-to-6 advantage on turnover points.  Texas forced only nine turnovers in the game. 

Schaefer took complete accountability for the loss and promised: “We’ll get it addressed; I’ll promised you that.  Fixed, I don’t know.  But addressed, absolutely.”