AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 All good things must end and on Wednesday night at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, it was No. 10\/8 Vanderbilt\u2019s 16-game winning streak which came to an end in an 80-64 loss to Texas.<\/p>\n
Vanderbilt (16-1, 3-1 SEC) was led by Duke Miles with 21 points on the night. Tyler Tanner added 17 to give him 17-straight contests in double figures while Tyler Nickel scored 10. Devin McGlockton finished the night with nine points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n
Texas (11-6, 2-2 SEC) notched its second-straight top 15 win behind 22 points from Matas Vokietaitis and 21 points from Tramon Mark. Dailyn Swain added 14 and Jordan Pope 12 in the Longhorns\u2019 victory.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns built a 42-37 halftime lead behind a red-hot attack, shooting 55 percent in the opening 20 minutes. Vandy stayed in touch thanks to an 8-of-15 performance behind the three-point line. The Commodores fell cold in the second half shooting just 8-of-30 from the field en route to 27 points, their lowest in a half this season. Vandy also committed eight turnovers in the second half as Texas pulled away.<\/p>\n
Vanderbilt cut the deficit to four at 55-51 with 11:25 to play and trailed by just six with 9:21 to go, but the Dores connected on just three field goals the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Texas held a 30-14 advantage in the paint and outrebounded the Dores 42-24. Vanderbilt finished just 36.7 percent from the field, including a season-low 37 percent on two-point shots. The Commodores were just 5-of-14 on layups in the loss.<\/p>\n
Vanderbilt returns home for a Saturday afternoon showdown against Florida. Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. at Memorial Gymnasium on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 All good things must end and on Wednesday night at the Moody Center in Austin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1770,18918,18921,18920,18919,18922,54254,9764,27,29,28,15963,18927,796,18928,18929,18923,18915,18916,18931,18917,18926,18925,18924],"class_list":["post-125604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-basketball","tag-commodores","tag-commodores-baseball","tag-commodores-basketball","tag-commodores-football","tag-commodores-soccer","tag-dores","tag-sec","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-vanderbilt","tag-vanderbilt-athletics","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-baseball-roster","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-football-roster","tag-vanderbilt-stadium","tag-vanderbilt-university","tag-vanderbilt-university-athletics","tag-vandy","tag-vuc","tag-vuc-baseball","tag-vuc-basketball","tag-vuc-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125604","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=125604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}