For the first time since the 2020 Maui Invitational in North Carolina, an objectively absurd combination of words, the Texas Longhorns won an early-season multi-team event by securing the Legends Classic with a 67-58 win over the Saint Joseph’s Hawks at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday.
Texas needed a 13-2 run in the second half to pull away from a competitive Saint Joseph’s team that used effective defensive strategies to force the Horns into a poor start to the second half — head coach Rodney Terry’s team went 2-of-11 shooting with five turnovers out of halftime in a defensive slugfest that saw the Hawks employ some traps on star Texas freshman guard Tre Johnson and a three-quarter court pressure into a 1-3-1 zone that slowed the Horns in getting into their halfcourt sets.