And then there three.<\/p>\n
No. 10 Vanderbilt left the ranks of the undefeateds on Wednesday with an 80-64 loss to unranked Texas. Their record is now 16-1 (3-1 in SEC play).<\/p>\n
That leaves three unbeaten teams left among 365 Divison I men’s college basketball: No. 1 Arizona, No. 8 Nebraska and unranked Miami (OH). There were six left at the start of the week, but then Michigan went down in a comeback loss to Wisconsin<\/a> and Iowa State got steamrolled by Kansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Where did Vanderbilt go wrong? The Commodores got blown off the glass, with Texas holding a 42-24 rebounding advantage getting second chances on 11 of its 25 misses. Combine that with a cold shooting night \u2014 22-of-60 (36.7%) from the field, 9-of-25 (36%) from 3-point range \u2014 and Vanderbilt just couldn’t keep up.<\/p>\n It was a close game early, but a quick 9-0 run at the end of the first half gave the Longhorns the advantage and then boat-raced the Commodores over the course of the second half.<\/p>\n Texas center Matas Vokietaitis led all scorers with 22 points on 7-of-9 shooting and Dailyn Swain had a good night with 14 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists.<\/p>\n It’s a second straight big win for Texas, which beat No. 18 Alabama on Saturday to recover from an 0-2 start in SEC play. It hasn’t been the smoothest year, with a season-opening loss to Duke and other non-conference losses to Arizona State, Virginia and UConn, but Wednesday was another big step forward for the team, especially with a rival matchup against Texas A&M on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And then there three. No. 10 Vanderbilt left the ranks of the undefeateds on Wednesday with an 80-64…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2895,8147,41452,21087,46467,9540,305,3116,1924,27,29,28,20452,3124,53661,15963,3142,3134],"class_list":["post-123863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-alabama","tag-arizona-state","tag-dailyn-swain","tag-getty-images","tag-icon-sportswire","tag-iowa-state","tag-kansas","tag-michigan","tag-nebraska","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-commodores","tag-uconn","tag-undefeated-season","tag-vanderbilt","tag-virginia","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}