A win isn’t necessarily always a win during the non-conference schedule and the Texas Longhorns delivered that type of unsatisfying result on Friday evening at the Erwin Center against the Prairie View A&M Panthers in a 70-56 victory.
Facing an opponents ranked in the 300s in KenPom.com’s adjusted efficiency metric with a 99-percent win probability, Texas was never exactly in danger of losing the game, but struggled to separate against Prairie View A&M.
The first half featured a paradigm that is becoming too familiar — attempts to play at pace with an inability to make good looks from deep and a reliance on taking those shots, especially early in the shot clock.