Silas Demary Jr. scored a career-high 26 points leading Georgia to a wire-to-wire 83-67 win over the Texas Longhorns Saturday night at Moody Center. The loss is a new low for a Longhorns team trying to get into the NCAA Tournament. Most bracket forecasts have Texas firmly on the tourney bubble.
Texas will now likely need to play perfect the rest of the season in order to get into the March Madness field after a rough February that saw UT fall to Arkansas twice, Vanderbilt and South Carolina. The Gamecocks were winless in SEC play before beating Texas.
“We didn’t get the kind of start we wanted to get off to, especially from an offensive standpoint,” Texas Longhorns coach Rodney Terry said after the game. “I feel like we let that dictate a little bit of our defensive effort to start the ball game.”
Texas trailed by 20 or more points for the majority of the second half, never getting within 10 points of Georgia. Texas finishes the regular season with must-win games at No. 24 Mississippi State Tuesday and at home at Moody against Oklahoma next Saturday.
“When you get to March, man, for the college basketball players, it doesn’t get any better than this time of year,” a hopefully Terry said. “It’s almost like Christmas. … March is the most wonderful time of the year.”
If the Longhorns don’t win the rest of the way, Christmas might get cancelled this year.
This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: Another bad loss by Texas basketball puts NCAA Tournament in jeopardy
