Texas basketball (15-10, 4-8 sec) abandoned a third consecutive dry match on Tuesday with A defeat of 103-80 against Alabama n ° 1 on his home at home. THE Longe chât Now participate in a critical competition on Saturday against Kentucky n ° 18 (17-7, 6-5) desperately needed a high-level victory to strengthen a case for the NCAA tournament which seems to be weakening in every match.
If Texas can Rebound on the ncaa bubble And in sowing projections, Texas coach Rodney Terry knows that his team must tighten his defense. Alabama, the country’s most striking team at 90 points per game, made 17 out of 29 3 points and drew 61.8% of the word during its victory on Tuesday.
The first year student Tre Johnson and the graduate Jayson Kent proved the two light points for A Texas team struck missed Devon Pryor and had forward Arthur Kaluma Leave the game early. Johnson, the first year shooting goalkeeper, projected a choice of lottery, scored a 24 -point summit while Kent had his most score match since his arrival in Texas in the state of Indiana during the off -season With 19 points.
Here’s what you need to know about the dry match against Kentucky.
Texas vs Kentucky Time
Day: SATURDAY
Start time: 7 p.m.
Location: Moody Center in Austin
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Arthur Kaluma, Devon Pryor: uncertain status
Kaluma and Pryor have both fought injuries in recent weeks, and both are questionable in the compulsory availability report on Friday evening. Kaluma tried to empty Tuesday’s defeat against Alabama With a painful knee but lasted less than 11 minutes. A first year transfer of the state of Kansas, the 6 -foot 7 -inch Kaluma started and appeared in 24 of the 25 games and on average of the longhorns and on average and a summit of 7.9 rebounds per game.
Pryor missed the match with a tense right calf. The second year 6-7 student on average 4.1 points and 2.1 rebounds in 11.8 minutes per game, but has saved more playing time in recent weeks. During his five previous games before missing the defeat against Alabama, Pryor collected on average six points and three rebounds in 16.8 minutes per game.
Kentucky Wildcats: Historical visit to Austin
What is Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith and John Calipari all have in common? They each trained the Kentucky at least one of its eight national championships, and none has ever trained the Wildcats in a match in Austin. In fact, Kentucky and its legion of fans dressed in blue have never visited Texas. The Wildcats won the two meetings of all time with Texas, including a 63-51 victory on December 5, 2014, during the last meeting between the Lexington teams, Kentucky.
The long-standing Norma Nomorns conference, Kentucky ranks second in the history of the NCAA in the national championships and directs all the NCAA programs in the Elite Eight (38) appearances, Sweet Sixteen Apparition (45), Total NCAA Tournament Apparition (60) and Tournament Games played (184). The program only follows the North Carolina with 131 victories of the NCAA tournament and won a record of 52 regular regular season titles.
Jaxson Robinson: Star Wildcat Guard could miss the game
Kentucky goalkeeper Jaxson Robinson, a transfer that followed the first-year coach Mark Pope of Byu, missed the 75-64 Tuesday victory over Tennessee with a right wrist injury, and Pope told journalists this week that “I’m not sure that we were going to bring him back anytime soon.” Robinson on average 13.3 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists while playing at a 28.7 -minute summit per game this season. Before the match against Tennessee, Robinson had started the 23 competitions this season. The Wildcats, who had lost four of their six previous games before the victory against the volunteers, compensated for the absence of Robinson by performing 12 out of 24 shots in the victory.
Texas vs Kentucky prediction
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With their collective back against the wall, the Longhorns make enough blows against an inconsistent team of Kentucky which could have a disappointment after an emotional victory on his rival Tennessee.
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