Go...Longhorns?

Hopefully everyone has sobered up from depression drinking that was likely rampant following the team’s loss to t.u. Wednesday night.

Everyone here? Good, because it’s time to cheer on the Longhorns in the hope that we can get a piece of the Big XII championship pie, and that Texas scores itself a good seed in the NCAA tournament.

Wednesday’s game was a bigger win for Texas than it was a loss for A&M. They’re playing for a favorable seeding. We’re pretty much locked into a two seed if we just make a decent showing in the Big XII tournament.

A&M would be well served by Kansas entering in the NCAA tournament as a two seed and Texas entering in as three seed. I don’t know about you guys, but I’d rather not face Kansas in the big dance. I don’t care if they have more early exits than the Braves; they will be hungry this time around, and Self is having his team peak at just the right time. Their momentum will likely carry into the tournament, and we don’t want any of that.

Texas, on the other hand, is a team that the Aggies would like to face in the tournament. Durant has shown that he tends to disappear when the game is getting rough, and their defense (or lack thereof) will be a major problem come game time. Gillispie is the superior coach, and Barnes’s tendency to make questionable substitutions when the game is on the line will combine with their porous D to punch an elite eight ticket for your Aggies. This would make the tournament one to remember.