Tyrese Hunter scored 19 points, and Marcus Carr and Christian Bishop added 18 apiece, to move second-seeded Texas within a game of the Final Four for the first time in 15 years.
, hurt his foot in a second-round win over Penn State. He got treatment on it all week, and the Longhorns successfully kept it secret until tipoff, when the big man played just a couple of minutes and then limped off the floor and straight to the locker room.
"We knew before the game that we wouldn’t have Dylan for the whole game," Carr said. "We just wanted to really play for him. We knew how much this would mean to him. We got emotional in there knowing he wouldn’t be out there."Sir’Jabari Rice scored 16 points and Timmy Allen added 11 for the Longhorns .kept Souley Boum and Xavier’s perimeter threats in check while making life miserable for Jack Nunge down low.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - MARCH 24: Marcus Carr #5 of the Texas Longhorns talks with head coach Rodney Terry during the first half against the Xavier Musketeers in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at T-Mobile Center on March 2It was Texas that scored at will, though, and Carr that got them going. He spun through the lane like a Tilt-A-Whirl for tough buckets at the rim, and even knocked down a spinning, desperation 3 as the shot clock expired.
"Their pressure is something you can’t really simulate until you’re in the game against them. Their toughness, their experience," Miller said. "And then offensively they have great guard play, and you feel that as well."
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