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Xavier's Jordan Crawford can't believe his team lost to No. 21 Butler in a game that had a controversial ending because of a clock malfunction.

Texas hadn't been tested as it cruised to nine straight wins to open the season, but it looked every bit like a Final Four contender in knocking off the defending national champions the last time out.

WHAT HAPPENED: After watching Texas handle North Carolina on Saturday, the outlook for MSU's game Tuesday didn't look promising.

MIKE JONES AUSTIN - Stop me if you've heard this before, but you're going to hear it again.

Avery Bradley was one of four Texas players to score 20-plus points against North Carolina.

North Carolina's Will Graves glanced past the open floor in front of him and his eyes focused only on the unguarded rim.

So we won the first big test on our schedule against a very talented bunch. Hell, Carolina is a team loaded with NBA talent.

The number one rule when playing Roy Williams' Tarheels is DO NOT try and run with them.

They have breezed through a month of basketball, dismissing with relative ease everybody on a schedule filled with mid-major level opponents and name-brand schools that are engaged in reconstruction.

MIKE JONES Quite frankly, the immediate impact of Texas' three touted freshmen, perhaps expected by some, hasn't happened.Point guard J'Covan Brown, guard Avery Bradley and small forward Jordan Hamilton haven't received the national buzz of, say, Kentucky's John Wall or Kansas' Xavier Henry.But then, for a second-ranked team, neither have the ...

By MIKE JONES ARLINGTON - Because of final exams, North Carolina did not practice Friday on the court at Cowboys Stadium before today's game with second-ranked Texas.But the Longhorns did and had a good look at the setup for the first basketball game to be played at the stadium.'Man, it's big,' Longhorns senior forward Damion James said.

I have seen the enemy and the enemy isa UT Pan American? No, not really, especially when viewed in the context of a 104 to 42 drubbing versus the juggernaut from The Valley.

Avery Bradley scored a season-high 18 points and had five assists to lead No. 2 Texas to an overpowering 104-42 victory over Texas-Pan American on Tuesday night.

The latest subject of our hoops Q&A series is Texas center Dexter Pittman , who's off to an impressive start in his senior season, averaging 13.6 points and 6.1 rebounds in just 19.8 minutes per game.

The second-ranked Texas Longhorns host the Texas-Pan American Broncs tonight in what figures to be a one-sided affair at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.

Last year, Texas State hung with Texas for the better part of 30 minutes. When the two teams met Saturday afternoon at the Erwin Center, the Bobcats never had a chance against the deeper and stronger Longhorns.

Avery Bradley's coach never brings it up, and says he doesn't even think about it.

The evolution of the 2009-2010 basketball team started in earnest last night with an explosive offensive win against a decent Long Beach State club.

Tag and bag another victim of the Longhorn brand of Chinese water torture basketball.A Death from a thousand paper cuts or a thousand missed free throws, ita s all the same.