We’re looking to build on our recent wins over the then No. 2 gonzaga bulldogsNo.2 texas longhorns While aiming for the top ranking, we are aiming for the top of the country. ken pom dot com It was the first of two games against the top 25 opponents on Thursday night against the No. 7 Clayton Blue Jays at the Moody Center.
Texas has not recorded a home win in a top 10 matchup since beating No. 9 Michigan State in 2009.
Clayton was then No. 14 Arizona, 90-87, then No. 16 in the championship game of the Maui Invitational. texas tech And – no. 9 Arkansas. 7’1, 260-pound center Ryan Kalkbrenner is a player who can stretch the court, with the Blue Jays posting his 16.1 points per game and guard Ryan Nemhard serving as a playmaker. He averages 5.7 assists per game and boasts 40 assists. His 9x mark from assists to turnovers in a season. As a team, Clayton’s 3-point shooting percentage is his 38.2%, and four of his five starters have a range shooting percentage of 42.3% or higher.
Texas starter
- Forward Timmy Allen
- Forward Dylan Dis
- Guard Tyrese Hunter
- Guard Marcus Carr
- Forward Dillon Mitchell
first half
After Kalkbrenner opened the scoring in the post-basket against Mitchell, Kerr found Cutthis along the baseline for a reverse dunk in the second chance bucket. Dis forced a turnover along the baseline as Carr missed his first three shots before Carr hit the first basket with a flex cut to the free-throw line and Mitchell scored on Lane’s short shot. Added second second chance score. Allen dribbled the first basket to the free-throw line and Dis hit a driving slam with a pump fake, but Creighton kept the pace and scored three straight field goals, including three from forward Arthur Karma. As play continued past the 16-minute mark, Mitchell stepped into a jumper to regain the lead before Kalkbrenner scored with a lob dunk. Play was eventually stopped when Allen fouled guard Baylor Shireman on a three-point attempt, with Texas leading 14–13 and Clayton opening the game with a 6/9 shooting from the field. At the 13:38 mark, it was the first foul called in the game.
After Shireman hit two free throws, Allen scored with a banked shot from the left, giving the media a 16-15 score behind a nice screen block from former Creighton forward Christian Bishop. A timeout has occurred.
Play resumed with another foul on the jump shot. This time, the shot clock had his 1 guard Sarja Bari Rice arcing. Clayton capitalized by hitting both. Bishop drove Kalkbrenner, spinning with a pivot foot to hit a shot in the lane and picking up an offensive foul with a sharp defensive rotation. As the Longhorns defense calmed down and tightened, the Blue Jays struggled off the field, missing six straight shots and going nearly six minutes without a field goal.
Texas initially failed to produce much of a separation, but Hunter followed up with a pull-up jumper with a steal in a finish at the rim of transition to take a 22-17 lead, allowing Clayton head coach Greg Forced timeout by McDermott.
The shooting struggle continued after the timeout as the Blue Jays missed three more shots, but the Longhorns also kept cool with three back-to-back missed shots and Kalkbrenner finally ended the drought. . 22-19.
Kerr ended Texas’ short scoreless stretch with a second shot, hitting a banked runner in the lane, and Clayton reacted when Karma hit a similar shot, but far off balance. . Lim forced a timeout by Longhorns head coach Chris Beard as the Blue Jays went on a 6–0 run and Texas fell into a 7–7 shooting slump. The Longhorns also missed his five shots in the first from his range for a three-pointer, starting the game, but the Blue Jays are so much better with his one shot in his ninth over the arc. did not.
Both teams were sloppy from timeouts, including an airball 3 from Texas guard Arterio Morris and a high-low turnover by Kalkbrenner trying to find the post for Karma. Finally, a curl cut from Hunter sent him downhill and allowed him to finish with a left-handed layup to stop a scoreless streak in 4:21 and regain the lead.Clayton guard Ryan Nemhad’s late-night Airball 3 briefly energized the Moody Center crowd, but Hunter blocked a driving shot attempt. The crowd rose again as Kerr completed his three-point play as he took two of his Coast rebounds and scored a tough finish by contact. Nemhardt hit a lame layup in response before Hunter eventually hit the Longhorns’ first three of the game and Texas entered halftime with a 32–27 lead.
half time
Clayton finished half of the shots from 3 to 12 (8.3%). The biggest surprise was his 0-for-6 start by Sheerman, the Blue Jays sniper who entered the game with a 41.7% mark in his career. But I often missed the first 20 minutes terribly. Kalkbrenner helped keep the visitors in range by making all five field goal attempts in the first half, and a 4-for-6 shooting performance from Karma helped the two combine to make the first 27. I recorded 19 of the times. -Half point by the Blue Jays, Creighton’s lowest of the season.
Texas helped itself by committing just one turnover, but only attempted one free throw and received a 3-of-11 shooting performance from Kerr. The bench didn’t contribute much either, with Bishop producing the only basket to shoot 7-1.
Latter half
Mitchell’s steal on Clayton’s aggressive rebound led to a breakout with Hunter driving on the second Texas possession of the second half and finding the car for the open three. Kalkbrenner remained a threat on the block, but scored in the sixth near the basket and drew a foul on Diss. After Clayton’s center split the free throw, Bishop banked Kalkbrenner, but Karma responded with a dunk that found Kalkbrenner on the lob and gave Texas a lead of 3 with an under-16 timeout. and the Horns started the second half with a 2. -of-9 shooting from the floor.
Rice hit a 3 after two more mistakes from the break, and Kerr hit another mistake on the next possession to extend his lead to 7 points. Shearman continued to miss from far away and Bishop hit a tough shot in the lane to force a timeout for Clayton, with Texas leading 45–36, the biggest margin of the night. Notably, Kalkbrenner wasn’t on the court in his 8-0 game as the Longhorns went.
Kalkbrenner’s return didn’t stop the bleeding immediately, however, and Maurice’s stolen base led to a layup for Allen on Kerr’s assist in the transition. A stiff defense helped create a traveling violation from a Creighton player on the floor, but Kerr and Morris were unable to hit threes to take the lead to double digits. The under-12 timeout came after guard Brock Cunningham was called for a foul when he stole the ball from Kalkbrenner on a double team.
Creighton started shooting 3 of 12 in the second half, including 6 misses from three-point range, and turned the ball over three times in 8:03 of the first. Meanwhile, Texas hit his three threes and scored his points seven second chances.
Nemhardt came out of the media break with a driving layup to end the Longhorns’ run, but Mitchell scored on a spinning post move in the paint before the up-down sequence, ultimately resulting in a foul on Hunter. I was. Hunter was helped off the court with a left calf spasm. Kalkbrenner remained perfect off the floor by scoring with an offensive rebound, and Nemhardt hit a layup following a jumper by Kerr in the lane. Bishop’s series of crossovers allowed Nemhardt to enter the lane, complete a layup, and draw a blocking foul on Rice on an under-eight timeout.
Nemhad hit a free three to cut Texas’ lead to eight before Allen drew a foul and took the Longhorns’ second and third free throws of the night, splitting a trip to the line and an elbow jumper. to take an 11-point lead. Kalkbrenner scored on a lob dunk, but before Karma cut in on the dunk after the offensive rebound, Hunter entered the lane for a short jumper to keep the margin. The Clayton Center eventually missed a shot against the double team, but drew a shooting foul during the sequence, missing first and going second. Another layup from Nemhad narrowed the lead to his 6, but he couldn’t hit his 3 to cut the margin further, and Rice hit a one-legged fadeaway in the lane to earn the coveted 2-0 win. I won the basket that was on. However, Shireman responded by finally hitting the first three of ten attempts to send the team to under-four timeouts with Texas leading 62–57.
The Longhorns had multiple open looks from 3 after the break, but none could connect, and Shireman hit a fadeaway jumper to beat the shot clock and cut the lead to 3. Another jumper to beat the shot clock didn’t fall on Clayton after Rice missed his 3, but fell on Carr along the baseline. Bishop then took a break, found Hunter for a layup, and found a 7-point lead with less than a minute remaining, greatly reducing any hopes of a comeback by the Blue Jays.
After Allen missed a 1-1 front end with 21.2 seconds remaining, Shireman hit a desperate step-back 3 to cut Texas’ lead to 4 points and send the game into timeouts. Clayton fumbled an out-of-bounds play that led to Hunter’s breakout his dunk, but with 11.4 seconds remaining on him, Shireman hit another desperate three of his, cutting the lead to his three. did.
Allen narrowly avoided a 5-second violation in finally finding Carr fouled 10.2 seconds on the clock. Kerr hit the front end of a one-and-one and sank the second. Nemhardt responded with his layup driving and with four seconds left on him Cunningham fouled. Facing another 1-1, Cunningham hit a Keigh free throw followed by another, forcing Shireman to make a final desperate 3 at the buzzer as Texas won 72–67. rice field.
post game
Kerr was one of four players to score in double figures for the Longhorns, leading the team with 19 points on 7-of-20 shooting with 5 assists, while Hunter added 15 points and Allen added 11 points. Got points and Mitchell got 10 points. Texas turned the ball over only three times in the game, and Clayton pushed the Longhorns guard into midrange and tried to get a three-pointer out of his line, but Texas made these runs in his second level. and Clayton made a few mistakes. Go under the screen.
With the Blue Jays making 4-of-27 3-point attempts and often scoring quality looks, Clayton capitalized on those chances and had a rebounding battle after only turning the ball eight or more times. won 44-42. game.
“Defensively, they’re as good as I thought they were,” McDermott said. “The pace of their transition was a little faster than I thought it would be. We lost to a really good team and respect them.”
