Texas men’s basketball: Top 5 regular season matchups for 2024-2025
The men’s basketball season is long but there a lot of important games throughout the season. Here are the top five most important games this season.
Texas basketball has won seven consecutive games but faces its toughest test of the season against two-time defending champion Connecticut Sunday, 4 p.m., at home.
Can the Longhorns (7-1) make a national statement in Moody Center, which hasn’t hosted a nonconference matchup of this magnitude since its opening in 2022? In its last game, Texas beat North Carolina State on Wednesday 63-59 behind 18 points from Tre Johnson and 13 points from Jordan Pope. Connecticut (6-3) followed up a rare three-game losing streak with two consecutive wins, most recently beating Baylor by four Wednesday.
Junior forward Alex Karaban leads the Huskies at 15.9 points per game. He’s shooting 46.8% from the deep. Freshman phenom Tre Johnson leads Texas at 20.8 points per game while shooting 44.6% from 3-point range.
Up next for Texas after Sunday’s game is a home game against New Mexico State. UConn will play a highly anticipated game against Gonzaga next.
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Texas vs UConn score updates
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This section will be updated when the game begins.
Texas forward Jayson Kent will miss his fifth straight game with a wrist injury. The 6-foot-8 forward, who transferred into the Longhorns’ program from Indiana State this past offseason, is averaging 6.5 point and 2.8 rebounds in 17.8 minutes off the bench.
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