Texas A&M
(#24) Texas
#24 Texas 81, Texas A&M 61
Jan 30, 2001 | Men's Basketball
January 30, 2001
Darren Kelly scored 19 points and Texas turned in its best shooting performance of the season Tuesday to defeat Texas A&M 81-61.
Texas (16-5, 5-2 Big 12) hit 56 percent from the floor and made a season-high 11 3-pointers as the Longhorns broke a two-game losing streak against A&M (6-14, 0-8). Maurice Evans made all four of his 3-pointers and Brandon Mouton made all three of his.
Texas held Texas A&M to 35 percent field goal shooting and now has won 30 consecutive games when holding opponents under 40 percent.
The victory gave the Longhorns their 25th straight home court win, the fifth longest streak in the country.
Chris Owens had 15 points for Texas while Evans had 14 and James Thomas had 11.
Bernard King had 21 points for Texas A&M and Jesse King added 10.
The Longhorns went on an 11-0 run in the first half, led by two 3-pointers by Evans, to take a 27-18 lead. Texas led 38-29 at the half and scored the first 10 points of the second half to extend its lead to 48-29.
Both teams wore black armbands with the Big 12 logo in orange in honor of Oklahoma State, which lost two of its reserve players and six others associated with the basketball program in an airplane crash Saturday night in Colorado. Two pilots also died.
