FROM THE REAL ART SPORTS DESK
Texas gets the best of LSU

From the Houston Chronicle:

The game was a rematch of last year's NCAA regional final, won by LSU 70-60 in overtime. The teams feature different lineups, with a combined seven starters gone, including the Longhorns' starting lineup that has been replaced by four freshmen and a sophomore.

Abrams, a sophomore guard, hit his two 3-pointers during a wild 42-second spurt. His last — which came from beyond the NBA 3-point arc — gave the Longhorns (6-2) a 76-75 lead with 1:04 remaining.

After Damion James missed two free throws with 17 seconds left, the Tigers had one final chance to win. Following a timeout, Garrett Temple missed a wide-open 3-point attempt from the top of the key, and James grabbed the loose ball as time expired to send Texas to its third straight win over a top-10 foe.

"Tonight we took a big step," Barnes said.

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Okay, I normally don't deal with basketball here at Real Art. Actually, I normally don't deal with basketball at all. To this day, I can still hear from back in seventh grade Brad Smith's voice yucking it up on our church's court at my expense: "Yuk, yuk! Reeder can't make a layup! Yuk, yuk!" Whatever. Brad's downhome adolescent humor ultimately did a disservice to what appears to be an exciting sport; it made me shun basketball to this day. But I digress. I break my basketball silence for the occasion of my undergraduate school, to which I have the most loyalty, upsetting my gradute school, to which I am loyal, but not when those loyalties are directly at odds with one another. That is, and this is for my fellow Longhorn Matt over at Caffeinated, I've got burnt orange blood, not purple.

So, I just have to say, for the record, "Hooray! We beat LSU!"

Hook 'em 'Horns!

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