Texas Basketball: 5 victory takeaways vs. Iowa State

When it was the most crucial time, the Texas basketball team notched its 16th victory of the season to keep firmly in the NCAA Tournament field.

At the time when it needed most to pull out a victory, Texas basketball came up big at home in the second leg of the season series against the Iowa State Cyclones. The Frank Erwin Events center was the sight of a pivotal showdown between Texas basketball and Iowa State to determine both NCAA Tournament and Big 12 Tournament seeding on March 2.

Left on the slate for the rest of the regular season for the Texas Longhorns basketball program is just the Texas Tech Red Raiders (March 4) and TCU Horned Frogs (March 9). You’d figure that this team needs to win at least two of its final three games to ensure good slotting in both pivotal upcoming tournaments to cap the 2018-19 campaign.

Texas basketball at least got off on the right foot on March 2 with a huge victory over Iowa State by the final score of 86-69. Considering Texas basketball was the underdog coming into this game, it is a massive win and the margin of victory will help them out too.

Iowa State is slipping of late, as were the Horns entering this weekend showdown. Texas holds an overall record of 16-13 (8-8 Big 12) after this win. Iowa State moves to 20-9 (9-7 Big 12) on the season after it just loss its third in the last four tries. The Clones have also lost four of the last six.

Here’s a look at the five definitive takeaways from the win for the Texas Longhorns basketball team over the Iowa State Cyclones on the Forty Acres to start the month of March.