Despite missing senior forward Arthur Kaluma due to injury, a desperate Texas Longhorns team closed down the stretch to secure an 82-78 win over the No. 15 Kentucky Wildcats to push head coach Rodney Terry’s team onto a more favorable side of the NCAA Tournament bubble as freshman guard Tre Johnson scored a game-high 32 points and senior wing Tramon Mark added 26 points to account for more than 70 percent of the team’s points on Saturday at the Moody Center.
It wasn’t the most efficient performance by Johnson, who went 11-of-26 shooting, including a 1-of-8 effort from beyond the arc, but was aggressive creating contact to make nine free throws and hit the glass hard for nine rebounds, five of them offensively.