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January 8, 2025 • 13 mins
Craig Way and Cameron Parker rehash the Texas Basketball team's failed comeback against No. 2 Auburn and hear from Rodney Terry during his postgame interview on the Longhorn Radio Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third and final hour of the program here on sports
Radio AM thirteen one hundred. Let me check this. Right now,
at exactly four o'clock, the temperature in the Greater Austin
area is a robust forty four degrees and that's the
high Right now, we've hit the high point. It's going
to fall off a little during the next hour, and

(00:22):
then tonight overnight it's going to get eh mid thirties.
It's still not going to be freezing, it'll be it'll
be in the mid thirties. So anyway, it's it's certainly
not nearly as but it could be raining tomorrow. The
fact there's a real good chance there will be some
rain tomorrow on the earth. It's just like cold drizzle

(00:46):
here in the Greater Austin, Central Texas area and the
Dallas Forward Metroplex where the Goodyear Cotton Bowl will be
contested on Friday night, things could get a whole lot
more inclement over the next twenty four to forty eight hours.
For example, in Fort Worth, right now, it's partly sunny,
they're forty one, but they could see a mix tomorrow

(01:08):
of snow, sleet and freezing rain, and then Friday it
looks like snow for sure, about an eighty percent chance
of snow, so that could all happen up in the
metroplex as well. Meanwhile, Long warn basketball team will get
ready for number one Tennessee coming in to Moody Center
on Saturday. I say number one. They will fall for
number one because they lost by thirty to Florida last night.

(01:30):
Stunning lost their first loss of the season. But it's
one of those nights and all teams have them where
you have nights where you just can't or don't shoot
the basketball very well. Rick Barnes, of course, four sixteen
years the coach of the Texas Long Orange, used to
say good shooting can make up for a multitude of sins,

(01:53):
and they had a multitude of sins last night, and
they didn't have the good shooting. And the Long Oarns
didn't have good shooting for a lot of the game.
They got better down the stretch when they made their
big push. Texas was down twenty one to second rank
to Auburn. Last night, they were down sixty one to
forty with twelve minutes plus remaining in the game and

(02:15):
went on a big run. I think outscored the thirty
eight twenty two and managed forty one to twenty two,
managed to pull them within three twice in the final minute,
couldn't finish it, however, despite a career high thirty four
points from Arthur Coloma and then also Jordan Pope was
seventeen second half points. Those were big moments there, and

(02:37):
they got some stops and played better and hit some shots,
but could not overcome Auburn's hugely and they wind up losing.
After the game, Eddie Orn and I visited about these
factors with long Worn's head coach Roddy Terry. I say
this up from because I know how you feel about this.
We live in the world of no moral victories. Having
said all of that, the fight, the resiliency, the toughness

(02:58):
your team showed from down twenty one to cut it
to three twice in the final minute of the ball game,
you had to be pleased with that.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
No, you don't, you know, echo your same thing you
just said. I said that to our team with Texas.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
We don't. We don't.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
We don't celebrate a more satisfied with more victories. We
expect to win every game that we we line up
and play, lace them up to play. That's a really
good team over there. You know, Bus has a really
good team. They're finding four caliber team. I thought that
guy showed a lot of fight. I thought they kept competing.
I think again, you know, early in our journey here
in Comforts Play, our guys are learning what it takes
to play for forty minutes and when it's gonna take

(03:31):
the win it in this.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Conference, what was the biggest thing you noticed in the
final twelve minutes that turned it to where your team
gave itself a chance by the fight they showed.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, we said we had to try to sit down
and get some stops, and if we were able to
put some stops together, we could come down and find
a way to score and get what we needed to
get done on the other end. You know, and it's
a long game and that's what our guys are finding
out again in the two games we played, you know,
both of the games have come down to possession games.
You know, they extended the game over him. We got
more points at toward the end, but really, you know,

(04:02):
seven minutes to go, it's anybody's game, you know, just
learning to work the game. You know, we have four
new starters, both of those teams have older players that
know how to close out game and win games. That's
that's the growth curve for our team. But I love
that effort. I loved are still want to and trying
to get it done and we're gonna find a way.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, and two of those guys that have had that
that want to. Jordan gives you seventeen and the second
half an heart what a ball game, a career game
for him with the thirty four.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, we did a much better job of taking care
of the basketball in the second half. We had nine
turnovers and a half. That was one thing that was
really hurting us. And you know, the points in the
paint early, they made some threes early. They're a really
good shooting team, probably the best shooting team we played
all year. And again that's a team that could go
to the Final four. And I think we have a
really good team. I think we're just going through a
little growth curve in terms of understanding what it takes

(04:51):
to win this league.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
For forty minutes, Ronny, A lot of positive takeout of
this game, but you got tough on them coming in here, Saraday,
not a lot of time to get ready. But another
team coming here. But I think it's you know, these
guys will build off of this one.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Again, the number one team in the country coming in
Coach Barnes. You know, his team's always physical. You know
they play with the tough defensive mindset.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
But we'll regroup, we'll be ready to play and ready
to compete at high level.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, I think I have two mad basketball teams in
here on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right, Yeah, I mean, I mean it's not easy to
win in this league. Then this league's hard.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Now, there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
We got the best league in the country. And you know,
again every night, you got to come play at at
a high level. You don't have to play perfect, but
you've got to play at a high level, and you've
got to play with a lot of urgency and you've
got to be extremely tough and competitive to get it done.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, you think about that in this league on a
regular basis. Not only did Tennessee lose to Florida at
Florida and lost by thirty, Kentucky, which had beaten Florida
of the weekend in Lexington, went down to Georgia and
lost by thirteen to Georgia. Now, maybe, well, I started

(06:02):
saying maybe the most impressive win. Listen, if you beat
the number one team in the country about thirty points,
it's probably the most impressive win of the night. And incidentally,
that was the third largest blowout loss for a number
one ranked team ever. There was one Saint John's lost

(06:26):
to Kentucky, I believe in nineteen fifty three, I think
it was or fifty two, lost by like forty one points.
And in nineteen sixty eight, the Houston Cougars were number
one in the country and lost the number two UCLA
by thirty two points. They lost one hundred and one
to sixty nine. The circumstances around that that was the

(06:49):
year they had the Game of the Century game between
what was then number one UCLA and number two Houston.
They played it in the Astrodome, and that was the
man who became known as Kareem Abdul to barter people.
Leu al Cinder back then was the center for UCLA
and Elvin Hayes was the center for Houston and they

(07:12):
matched up in the Astrodome and it was on national TV,
and it was a big moment for college basketball. And
if you've ever seen pictures of this, this was in
the days when they didn't know how to properly configure
domed stadiums for basketball. For example, you know it'll be

(07:35):
in the Alamo Dome this year, and of course they
do it different the way they raised the level of states,
but they bring in the temporary stands on the sides
to make it much more like a basketball arena. Not
in nineteen sixty eight in the Astrodome, they just laid
a basketball floor out right in the middle of the
dome and there was a press row, I think, on
either side, and that was it. Anybody that had a

(07:58):
seat to that game sat in the rear like football
or baseball seats. So it's like this just laid out
in the middle of the floor and everybody was way
back from the floor and no big jumbo trot either. Yeah,
to see it. And Houston won that game by two
of her UCLA seventy one sixty nine. And also, to
be fair and accurate, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, back then known

(08:19):
as leu Au Center, had had a scratch cornea and
still wasn't quite one hundred percent. But Houston won that game.
But they met up again in the final four in
the semifinals and UCLA destroyed him in the rematch, beat
them one hundred and one and sixty nine, and then
the UCLA beat North Carolina to win the national championship
that year. They beat them by twenty three in the final.

(08:40):
That's often been called the greatest of all those. John
Wooden coached UCLA seven consecutive national championship teams. The best
of them all lou Eu Center's junior year nineteen sixty eight,
with what else they had their unbeaten and a national
champion in nineteen sixty eight. So any time a number

(09:01):
one team loses by a large margin, it's noteworthy, and
Tennessee's thirty point loss at Florida last night was noteworthy,
and that it was the third largest blowout loss by
a number one team in college basketball history since the
rankings system went into play. However, the Georgia win at

(09:24):
home over Kentucky was impressive and maybe just as impressive
certainly as the Georgia game, and maybe right up there,
not quite to the level of Florida's thirty point win
over Tennessee, but worthy of being mentioned is Mississippi State
winning on the road at Vanderbilt, which had gotten off
to a great start, but Mississippi State went in there

(09:45):
and got out to a huge lead and then eased
in for the win. So Chris Chian's team is I
think fourteen and one now, so they're either fourteen to
one or fifteen to one, so they're off to a
great start. Art Texas does play Mississippi State one time
is the next to last game fourteen and one, fourteen

(10:06):
and one. They played them next to last game of
the regular season in Starkville at the Hump Humphrey Coliseum,
so something to take note of.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
A quick note on the Auburn game last night, Craig
Texas actually moved up four spots in the kimpon rankings
after last night. Yeah, it reminded me a lot of
last year's lost to Houston at home at Moody Top ten,
top five. Houston team came in on Big Monday. Texas
played them really well. Now I think they actually led
in that game against Houston, whereas against Auburn mostly trailing

(10:38):
but ended up losing by you know, less than single digits.
So as artist said, and this team is learning what
it's going to take the you know, contend and sec play.
And for Texas fans who are just you know, reacting
off of these first two games in conference play. Hey,
the front of this schedule is insane. I mean, the
first five games Texas plays an SEC play against top
twenty five teams. Auburn, on the other hand, only plays

(11:00):
it only has to play one top twenty five team,
Misissippi State. So you know, wait until March before you
decide what to make of this text.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
It's certainly late.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
They're still they're still you know, they're still figuring out
their offense in the chemistry right and no Kenda Weaver
yesterday and the second half of the SEC schedule was
a little bit easier than the first half. So as
this team can you know, grow together and stick through
it against this tough opening slate, I think it's going
to help them the second half of conference play season,
you know, maybe make a run, get back off the bubble,

(11:31):
do some damage in the SEC tournament and who knows
what can happen.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
And as is the case with football, as was the
case with football, there will be some cannibalizing. Yes, that
happens in the SEC. Teams will be knocking one another
off left and right, So we'll see. And in this
unique round robin schedule, so to speak. It kind of
reminds me of the old Big twelve schedule that Texas

(11:54):
uses to play, but that was even more uniform, almost
called scheduling North and Scheduling, even though they were not
in separate divisions, but they would only play the teams
from the geographic scheduling North like one time one time
against Kansas, one time against k State, one time against Nebraska,
one time against Missouri, one time against Colorado. They would

(12:16):
they would play in one time against Iowa State when
those teams were all in the league.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
I mean Joel Nari's latest bracketology Oklahoma seven seed, Ole
miss An eight seed. Those are two teams that can
be Sweet sixteen bound, easily lead eight bound. It's just
you mentioned the cannibal the cannibalization of this conference. There's
going to be some messy seed teams that are going
to be a high low seed, but they're going to
I think they're going to be a popular pick to

(12:41):
go deep because they have that tough resume. They've played
the tougher teams.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
True, and even though the NCAA didn't announce they're not
using the Ken Pom rankings anymore. As an evaluative tool.
It's still a good measuring stick to do that, as
well as looking at the net rankings. All right, we
shift from men's basketball the women's basketball. The number five
team in the country, the Texas Longhorns, Tomorrow night host
number eighteen Alabama. The two teams are both fifteen and

(13:07):
one going into the game. Remember Texas beat Alabama in
the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year Moody Center.
Christy Curry brings another really talented group into Moody Center
tomorrow night. We'll hear more from Vic Schaffer coming up
here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
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