{"id":209549,"date":"2026-03-18T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/209549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:10:13","slug":"texas-beats-nc-state-in-first-four-draws-byu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/209549\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Beats NC State in First Four, Draws BYU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Longhorns nearly blew it, but Texas beat NC State 68-66 Tuesday night in the First Four and will play BYU Thursday. Texas led 62-53 with under two minutes left, but NC State tied the game with under 20 seconds to go before Texas made the game-winning shot with 1.1 seconds remaining to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This was supposed to be a high-scoring affair between two teams who are potent on offense and struggle on defense, but neither offense could get going. Both teams shot under 40%, but Texas\u2019 15-7 advantage on the offensive glass was a difference. Texas shot 5-17 from three, and were able to draw fouls and finished 21-29 from the foul line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas leading scorer Dailyn Swain struggled with 2-9 shooting and 5 turnovers, but was 8-9 from the foul line and finished with 13 points. 7-foot starting Center Matas Vokeietaitis scored 15 points and grabbed 8 rebounds, including 4 offensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">BYU-Texas will play Thursday at 4:25 PT on TBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longhorns nearly blew it, but Texas beat NC State 68-66 Tuesday night in the First Four and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8671,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-209549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-byu-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209549","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=209549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}