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Longhorns Storm Back, Beat Texas Tech in Austin

The Texas Longhorns had another comeback win on Saturday night. This time against the rival Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Matt Galatzan

AUSTIN - Coming off of an epic comeback win over the TCU Horned Frogs on Wednesday night, the Texas Longhorns have done it again. 

Trailing by as many as 12 points in the first half vs. the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Saturday, Texas stormed back in half No. 2, taking down Mark Adams' team 72-70 at the Moody Center. 

That comeback was led by guards Marcus Carr and Sir' Jabari Rice, who finished the game as the Longhorns' two leading scorers with 20 and 18 points, respectively.

Timmy Allen also was heavily involved on the scoring end, especially down the stretch, adding 17 points of his own.

Texas ended the game shooting 43.4 percent from the floor overall, and 28.6 percent from three. 

On the other end, the Longhorns were fantastic defensively holding the Red Raiders to 40 percent shooting from the floor. They also forced Texas Tech into 15 turnovers. 

Following their win over the Red Raiders, the Longhorns (15-2) will now have another extremely tough test in front of them, when they travel to Ames to take on the No. 14-ranked Iowa State Cyclones on Tuesday night. 

After that, it is another road test for Texas, when they head to Morgantown to take on the West Virginia Mountaineers on January 21.

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Matt Galatzan
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.

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