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Texas Basketball: 5 reasons Longhorns win Big 12 Tournament

By Andrew Miller

LUBBOCK, TX - MARCH 04: Jericho Sims #20 of the Texas Longhorns dunks the basketball during the second half of the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders on March 4, 2019 at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech defeated Texas 70-51. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TX - MARCH 04: Jericho Sims #20 of the Texas Longhorns dunks the basketball during the second half of the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders on March 4, 2019 at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech defeated Texas 70-51. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /
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AUSTIN, TEXAS – JANUARY 29: Ochai Agbaji #30 of the Kansas Jayhawks leaps to the basket against the Texas Longhorns at The Frank Erwin Center on January 29, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Chris Covatta/Getty Images)
AUSTIN, TEXAS – JANUARY 29: Ochai Agbaji #30 of the Kansas Jayhawks leaps to the basket against the Texas Longhorns at The Frank Erwin Center on January 29, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Chris Covatta/Getty Images) /

5. Already defeated Kansas

Back on Jan. 29, a then slipping Texas basketball squad pulled off the unthinkable at the Frank Erwin Events Center and upset Kansas. Playing on the Forty Acres gave the Horns some mixed results this season. Yet, Texas did manage to rake in a shocking double-digits win over Kansas to round out the January slate.

Sometimes when the Horns had their backs up against the wall, it brought the best out of this team. Yet, the trends of the up and down play from this squad were mostly hard to nearly impossible to predict. That made it difficult to give any sort of projection for the seeding for Texas in the Big 12 or NCAA Tournament.

Texas wound up with the No. 6 six in the Big 12 Tournament to tip things off against Kansas on March 14 in the second round of games. The Big 12 Tournament opens in general with the bottom four seeds squaring off in the first two matchups. That highlights the Oklahoma State Cowboys taking on the TCU Horned Frogs and the Oklahoma Sooners battling the West Virginia Mountaineers.

Potentially the most surprising upset in the first round of games would have to be the Horns getting the win over the Jayhawks. While Kansas didn’t come away with yet another Big 12 regular season title, that team has to be motivated to exact revenge on the rest of the teams in this conference in this tourney.

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