Texas Basketball: 3 reasons the Longhorns will dominate Northern Colorado

An opportunity to bounce back from a convincing double-digit loss on the road at the hands of the No. 1 ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs and head coach Mark Few has arrived for Texas basketball head coach Chris Beard on the night of Nov. 17. No. 8 ranked Texas gets to face the Northern Colorado Bears at home at the Frank Erwin Center on Nov. 17 with a chance to rake in their second win of the regular season.

Beard and the Longhorns are coming off an 86-74 loss on the road in Spokane, WA, at the hands of the Zags on Nov. 13. That was a bad day for Longhorns fans in general between the basketball team losing to Gonzaga on the road and the football team experiencing a very embarrassing loss at home against the Kansas Jayhawks in overtime on the same night.

Texas basketball can dominate Northern Colorado on Nov. 17 to bounce back from the loss to Gonzaga

Yet, Texas does catch Northern Colorado at the right time. This Texas team did play a strong second half against the Zags, theoretically giving them some level of momentum to focus in this meeting with Northern Colorado on Nov. 17.

This meeting with Northern Colorado is the beginning of the Abe Lemons Classic at the Erwin Center. The Abe Lemons Classic is hosted at the Erwin Center, with four different teams involved.

Texas will get to face the San Jose State Spartans (Nov. 20), and Cal Baptist (Nov. 24) in this series after taking on Northern Colorado in the middle of this week.

Moreover, Texas enters this matchup as a sizable 21.5-point favorite. And the ESPN matchup predictor (based on the Basketball Power Index) gives Texas around a 96 percent chance to beat Northern Colorado.

Here’s a look into three reasons why the Longhorns will dominate Northern Colorado in a bounce-back opportunity on Nov. 17 at home.