Vanderbilt (26-3, 12-3)<\/a> beats Tennessee (16-11, 8-7), the Longhorns will be the No. 3 seed.<\/p>\n\u2022\u00a0If Texas wins and Vanderbilt loses, the Longhorns will be No. 2. If Texas loses and LSU (25-4, 11-4) beats Mississippi State (18-11, 5-10), the Longhorns being the No. 3 or No. 4 seed would be dependent on some other results from Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Texas is also attempting to avoid a late-season letdown as it tries to earn a top seed in the NCAA Tournament. As of Saturday, ESPN, CBS Sports and NCAA.com each project Texas to be one of the four No. 1 seeds, but teams like Iowa, LSU, Michigan and Vanderbilt are lurking on the No. 2 line.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want to let anybody make a decision in the big tournament if we stub our toe,” Schaefer said. “I just don’t want to give anybody a reason to reconsider where we are, what we’ve done, our body of work in the big picture. So we’re going to keep doing what we’re doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Momentum is everything, right? You want to keep winning. You want to have momentum. We’re going to have a chance to win a championship next week, so you want to go into that opportunity playing well. And we’re going to have to play really well on Sunday, because coach (Kristy) Curry and her staff, they’re some of the best in the business. That team will be ready for us, so we’ve got to be ready for them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don’t expect things to be as lively this weekend. No. 4 Texas plays Sunday at No. 24 Alabama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[778,9764,48614,27,29,537,5276,28,5279,13548],"class_list":["post-185328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-sec","tag-sec-women-s-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-women-s-basketball","tag-texas-news","tag-vic-schaefer","tag-women-s-college-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185328","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=185328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}