Senior center Kyla Oldacre scored 22 points and All-American forward Madison Booker added 20 points as No. 2 Texas closed out nonconference play with a 120-38 beating of Southeastern Louisiana at Moody Center. The 120 points scored by Texas is tied for the fifth-most in the program’s storied history.
Texas (15-0) was on pace to break its 25-year-old record of 135 points, which was set in 2000 against Centenary, but the team took its foot off the gas pedal after the third quarter and scored just 15 points in Sunday’s final frame.
While facing the Southeastern Louisiana (2-8), Texas shot 60% from the floor and got double-digit scoring efforts from Oldacre, Booker, Jordan Lee (16 points), Breya Cunningham (12 points), Bryanna Preston (12 points), Justice Carlton (10 points) and Ashton Judd (10 points). Oldacre made nine of her 10 shots.
Defensively, Texas forced 30 turnovers. That led to 50 points. Southeastern Louisiana made just 15 of its 45 shots, and no Lady Lion scored more than Eryn McKinzie’s 13 points.
Back on Nov. 3, Texas opened its season with a 123-51 win over Incarnate Word. Nearly eight weeks later came that 82-point rout of Southeastern Louisiana. Those matchups against overmatched Southland Conference teams served as bookends for UT’s nonconference schedule, which did feature tougher tests for the Longhorns.
Additionally, Texas handily beat James Madison and South Dakota State teams that were picked to win their conference championships this season. Last weekend’s 70-51 win at South Dakota State was one of two road games in nonconference play for the Longhorns.
So did Texas get what it wanted out of its nonconference schedule? Ahead of the Southeastern Louisiana game, UT coach Vic Schaefer thought so.
“I think the nonconference schedule did what we wanted it to do,” Schaefer said. “It challenged us early. I think it got my team focused early and it was a very, very difficult nonconference schedule… Every year, you kind of evaluate what you’re doing. But the schedule this year, it certainly did what I thought it needed to do. Obviously navigating it and going undefeated is really good, but even if we’d have stubbed our toe somewhere, I think it serves a purpose.”
Texas is committed to returning to Las Vegas for the Players Era event during the 2026-27 season. Schaefer, however, recently wondered aloud if he will want to have five ranked teams on his nonconference schedule next year since he expects to have four freshmen in the rotation and guard Aaliyah Crump will just be a sophomore.