This game was over with 13:50 left in the second half, because Texas challenged the basketball gods in the most heinous possible way.
You can’t have the entire team slap the floor on defense and expect to win a game, this is science and it’s Shaka Smart’s basketball heresy that brings this unstoppable force to bear. He’s the one who keeps slapping the floor and encouraging the players to follow suit; one doesn’t mock Basketball Jesus - who has a birthday coming up soon, I’m told - and expect a win. The triple floor slap - the slapurkey - is enough of an affront to our roundball lord and savior on its own, to follow it with the entire team slapping the floor is basically basketball Sodom and Gomorrah.