Texas vs Vanderbilt game score: Live updates, highlights

The Texas women’s basketball program entered this week looking for a big road win. It did not find one in Nashville.

Ranked fourth in the Associated Press poll, Texas had no answer for Vanderbilt guard Mikayla Blakes and it couldn’t find any solutions for Aubrey Galvan either in an 86-70 loss to the the fifth-ranked Commodoes at Memorial Gymnasium. Blakes scored 34 points and Galvan added 18 points to lead the way for Vanderbilt, which also beat a top-five opponent in then-No. 5 LSU last month.

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Texas Longhorns guard Rori Harmon (3) debates a call with the referee in the first half as the Texas Longhorns take on the Vanderbilt Commodores at the Moody Center, Feb. 6, 2025.

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Texas vs. Vanderbilt: Live updates, highlights

4th (3:32): Vanderbilt 77, Texas 66

Behind Mikayla Blakes’ 25 points and 18 points from Aubrey Galvan, Vanderbilt is closing in on another significant win at home. Back on Jan. 4 at Memorial Gymnasium, Vanderbilt recorded a 65-61 win over a LSU team that was ranked fifth at the time.

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4th (7:42): Vanderbilt 70, Texas 58

With backup point guard Bryanna Preston contributing two points and two assists within the first two minutes of the fourth quarter, Texas opened the final frame on a 6-0 run and has cut the Vanderbilt lead down to 12 points. Texas starting point guard Rori Hamon has not played since the 5:04 mark of the third quarter.

End 3: Vanderbilt 70, Texas 52

With five fouls, Texas center Breya Cunningham’s night ended with 7.1 seconds left in the third quarter. And after Vanderbilt expended its lead to as many as 26 points in the third quarter by shooting 42.9% on its field-goal attempts and committing just three turnovers, the Longhorns might be ready to call it a night as well.

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While allowing 54.8 points per game, Texas entered today as the No. 7 scoring defense in the country. The Longhorns had also not let a single player scored more than the 24 points that Penn’s Mataya Gayle tallied on Nov. 30, but Vanderbilt star guard Mikayla Blakes already has 26 points.

3rd (5:04): Vanderbilt 61, Texas 35

Vanderbilt quickly opened the second half with a 3-pointer from Mikayla Blakes and a Aubrey Galvan basket, and the Commodoes are pulling further ahead of Texas. Vanderbilt has stretched its lead to as many as 26 points in this quarter.

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While attempting to rally, Texas is shooting just 22.2% from the field in the third quarter.

Before this media timeout, Blakes knocked down her second 3-pointer of the game. She has scored 21 points so far tonight on 8-of-16 shooting.

Halftime: Vanderbilt 47, Texas 30

Texas was dominated by the home team during the first half and now faces its largest deficit of the season. Vanderbilt committed 10 turnovers over the first two quarters but shot 62.1% from the field and knocked down five 3-pointers. Meanwhile, Texas missed 27 shots during a first half in which it led by no more than three points.

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Texas had earned a halftime lead in 23 of its previous 25 games, and it was also locked in a 32-32 tie at the midway point of a game last month at South Carolina. Before tonight, Texas trailed by five points during the only time it was losing at halftime.

Three days after they combined for 64 points against No. 10 Oklahoma, Vanderbilt guards Mikayla Blakes and Aubrey Galvan have scored 28 points so far tonight. Jordan Lee (11 points) and Madison Booker (nine points) are the only Longhorns who have scored more than four points so far.

2nd (5:07): Vanderbilt 34, Texas 21

Texas pulled within seven points, but a 7-0 run by Vanderbilt has pushed the Longhorns into the danger zone. Vanderbilt freshman Aubrey Galvan has scored a game-high 11 points and grabbed four rebounds.

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2nd (8:04): Vanderbilt 27, Texas 19

Texas has chipped a little into the Vanderbilt lead in the second quarter. One problem for the Commodores in this session has been turnovers. Over the first 116 seconds of the second quarter, Vanderbilt has committed four turnovers and managed just one shot.

End 1: Vanderbilt 27, Texas 15

Vanderbilt ended the first quarter with its fourth 3-pointer of the game, and that deep shot was knocked down by Texas transfer Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda. Mwenentanda spent the first three years of her college career at Texas, and she was 1-for-18 on the 3-pointers she attempted last season. Against her old team so far, Mwenentanda has scored six points and grabbed three rebounds.

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Texas shot just 6-for-19 from the floor in the first quarter while Vanderbilt boasted a 75.0 shooting percentage. Jordan Lee had six first-quarter points to lead the UT offense.

1st (3:21): Vanderbilt 18, Texas 7

Two 3-pointers from Vanderbilt guard Justine Pissott and a deep shot by freshman Aubrey Galvan has staked the Commodores to an early lead. Vanderbilt has made three of the four 3-pointers that it has attempted so far while UT has made just three total field goals.

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Much has been made about UT’s last of 3-point shooting this season, and the Longhorns have knocked down just one shot from behind the arch so far. But the Longhorns’ lack of 3-point shooting – Texas ranks 338th among 359 Division I offenses with its average of 4.0 3-pointers per game – has been mitigated by the fact that it is allowing just 4.4 3-pointers per game.

Texas Longhorns starting lineup

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Vanderbilt Commodores starting lineup

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Texas basketball vs Vanderbilt time, TV info

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Where: Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tenn.

TV/radio: SEC Network+, 1300 AM

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Texas Longhorns center Kyla Oldacre (00) gestures to the referee as Texas takes on Kentucky at The Moody Center in Austin Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.