AUSTIN, Texas — To hear Oklahoma Sooners head coach Porter Moser tell it, the basket looked like a pool to Texas Longhorns junior guard Tyrese Hunter in the second half of Saturday’s 94-80 win over the Sooners at the Moody Center — Hunter scored 22 of his career-high 30 points after halftime, shooting 6-of-8 from the field, making all three of his three-point attempts, and hitting all seven of his free-throw attempts.
Over the first 6:18 of the second half, Hunter scored 13 points as Texas faced away from Oklahoma, turning a five-point halftime lead into a margin that reached 21 points in a vision of why the Longhorns could be an exceptionally difficult for a higher seed to oust in the NCAA Tournament.