But for Rodney Terry’s Longhorns on Thursday at the SEC basketball tournament in Nashville against No. 16 Texas A&M, a great opportunity was offered.

Less than 24 hours after the excitement of Vanderbilt, the 13-set Longhorns fully took advantage of their chances on Thursday by scoring a 94-89 victory against the aggies in double overtime against the mind seeds, although they had lost several key players on the track due to any difficulties.

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Texas entered the day as a top team in the “First Four Out” category by ESPN by Joe Lunardis NCAA tournament projection. With his victory and a defeat of Xavier against Marquette in the Big East tournament, the Longhorns switched to the “Last Four” category by Lunardis Brackology.

The victory was Texas’ seventh quad 1 win of the season, a very valuable statistics of the NCAA selection committee. Texas will have the opportunity to win his eighth Quad 1 victory on Friday when it hit Tennessee in the quarter -finals.

Rodney Terry discusses the NCAA tournament in Texas Basketball

Here is what Terry had to say after the game, how he believes that the victory on Thursday against Texas A&M should influence the case of the Longhorns to make the big dance:

Texas coach Rodney Terry discusses his team’s NCAA tournament

After Texas A&M was beaten to Texas A&M in the second round of the SEC tournament, the trainer of Texas, Rodney Terry, discusses his team’s résumé for the NCAA tournament.

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