The urgency of conference play is upon the Texas Longhorns, justifiably dropped not only from the AP Top 25 in which Rodney Terry’s team lingered inexplicably for too long, but also dropped from ESPN’s Bracketology altogether, not even among the first eight teams out following Saturday’s awful loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown.
“A big game is the next game because it’s the game right in front of us and that’s the mentality we’ve always had — it’s really centered around our culture and who we are,” said Terry on Tuesday.
The inability to take any game for granted heightens the stakes of Wednesday’s game against the UCF Golden Knights at the Moody Center, where the Longhorns lost their second game since it opened when Big 12 play started 11 days ago against the Red Raiders.