{"id":158063,"date":"2026-02-10T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158063\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:31:13","slug":"justice-carlton-leads-texas-to-victory-over-kentucky-with-17-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158063\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Carlton leads Texas to victory over Kentucky with 17 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Justice Carlton scored 17 points and No. 4 Texas overcame poor second-half offense to defeat No. 18 Kentucky 64-53 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns (23-2, 8-2 SEC) improved to 9-2 against AP Top 25 teams while winning their 40th straight home game, the longest streak in the nation. But this one was in doubt until the final few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky (18-7, 5-6) trailed by 14 before the midway point in the third quarter, but found itself down by just one point after a basket by Clara Strack with 6:23 remaining in the game. Texas responded with four free throws by Kyla Oldacre and a 3-pointer by Carlton with 3:54 left for a 56-50 lead after Madison Booker grabbed the rebound of a missed 3 by Jordan Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Texas made six straight free throws in the final 1:25 to secure the win. Lee scored 13, the only Longhorns player other than Carlton in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Asia Boone led Kentucky with 16 points and Strack added 14. The Wildcats shot just 39% from the field and committed a season-high 23 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>NO. 5 VANDERBILT 102, NO. 10 OKLAHOMA 86<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Mikayla Blakes scored 34 points as Vanderbilt beat Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>After getting outscored in the first half of their last four games, the Commodores (23-2, 9-2 Southeastern) scored 59 points on their way to a 19-point halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma (17-6, 5-5) took its only lead when Payton Verhulst hit a 3-pointer just eight seconds into the game. Justine Pissott answered with a 3 that sparked a 12-2 run and Vanderbilt never again trailed. The Commodore took their biggest lead at 51-25 when Blakes converted a three-point play with 6:17 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Aubrey Galvan had a career high 30 points, 17 in the first half. Her previous high was 20 in Vanderbilt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vanderbilt-michigan-score-b57c4dd56f56c140e8bfaec2c26ba9f1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:72-69;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">72-69<\/a> win over No. 7 Michigan on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Pissott had 16 points and Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda had 13 points and nine rebounds for Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Justice Carlton scored 17 points and No. 4 Texas overcame poor second-half offense to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,61352,64953,34577,2917,46987,65056,27,29,28,15828],"class_list":["post-158063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-carlton","tag-clara-strack","tag-justice-carlton","tag-kentucky","tag-kyla-oldacre","tag-points","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158063","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=158063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}