Texas entered the day in a three-way tie for second, but the win and losses by Kansas State and Baylor left the Longhorns alone in the spot.
"We wanted confidence going into postseason," Rice said. "We had to get ourselves focused and re-centered ."
Texas swarmed Kansas with a defensive effort that frustrated Wilson and the Jayhawks from the opening tip. Kansas got within eight when Gradey Dick made consecutive 3-pointers, his first baskets of the game, before Texas answered with six consecutive points. Rice then ran off seven straight points, including a 3-pointer from the left corner, and Texas led 68-52 with 3:30 to play."Texas was turned up. Defensively they made us play outside our comfort zone," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "We weren’t any good. We got what we deserved today.
Texas: Interim coach Rodney Terry’s future with the program was probably always going to depend on the Longhorns’ postseason success. He might have eased that pressure had Texas won at least a share of the program’s first conference title in 15 years. But finishing second with an emphatic win over the league champ is better than many would have predicted when"My message is to continue to be a hungry team," Terry said. "I think we have a team as good as anybody.
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