Longhorns Christian Bishop OUT With Injury vs. Kansas State

The Longhorns will be without arguably their top big man for the rest of the game vs. Kansas State.

Matt Galatzan | Jan 3, 2023

AUSTIN - The Texas Longhorns were already in a bad position against the Kansas State Wildcats on Tuesday night, trailing 58-40 at the half.

But things may get worse in the second half for interim coach Rodney Terry, as he will be without one of his top frontcourt players in Christian Bishop.

Bishop was forced to leave the game at halftime due to a lower back contusion and has since been ruled out of action for the remainder of the contest.

At the time of the injury, Bishop had scored five points off of the bench and had grabbed one rebound.

As a team, the Longhorns were not performing poorly offensively, shooting 46.9 percent from the field and 33 percent from three.

However, the struggles have been on the defensive side of the ball, where they have allowed the Wildcats to hit a scorching hot 62 percent from the field, and just under 57 percent from three.

The Wildcats have also dominated in the pain thus far - a scoring differential that will likely only increase with Bishop unable to return.

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Published Jan 3, 2023

MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writer’s Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014 covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.