Longhorns focus on the moment, controlling their fate as Texas outlasts Stanford

Rodney Terry spent his second recreation Sunday as the performing males’s basketball coach at Texas.

And motivational speaker.

And you’ll be able to add disaster administration guide to the rising record of titles.

Texas and Terry made it by means of the second recreation since the felony home violence arrest and subsequent suspension with out pay every week in the past of coach Chris Beard. No. 7 Texas outlasted Stanford 72-62 as a part of the US LBM Pac-12 Coast-to-Coast Challenge quadrupleheader at American Airlines Center.

In case anybody puzzled if issues is likely to be simpler now, Terry had a prepared response.

“I don’t know that it’s ever easy,” Terry stated.

Nor is it prone to get any simpler for the time being.

Texas hasn’t made any remark since the assertion suspending Beard. Athletic director Chris Del Conte, who was in Omaha watching Texas win the NCAA volleyball title, wasn’t current at the AAC. Texas gamers had been once more not made obtainable for the media.

That left Terry, a former head coach at Fresno State and UTEP, making an attempt to cope with questions greatest answered by others. So far, Texas hasn’t formally clarified Terry’s standing even for the remainder of the season or indicated a timetable for a choice on Beard.

“I don’t have any answers for you right now in terms of where we are other than what we’re doing today and what we have in the moment,” Terry stated. “Today I was the acting head coach and tried to help our team be successful today.”

Terry stated he relied from expertise gained from mentors in his life, like former Baylor coach Harry Miller and present Tennessee coach Rick Barnes. Terry was an assistant underneath Barnes for 9 seasons at Texas.

Part of Terry’s state of affairs is coping with a locker room the place Beard’s presence continues to be felt.

“We love coach Beard. We do,” Terry stated. “Every guy in that locker room over there, myself included, we’re all family. But you control what you can control. There’s putting these guys in the best position to be successful and keeping them having a great competitive experience and I thought our guys were prepared.”

Texas began sluggish however led 31-28 at halftime.

Then sixth-year senior guard Marcus Carr scored 15 of his 17 factors in the second half to assist Texas construct a 16-point lead.

The Longhorns (9-1) survived the form of funk that bedeviled final yr’s staff, going 1-for-14 from the discipline throughout one stretch of the second half.

Stanford closed to inside three, 59-56, on a 3-point play by Michael O’Connell with 6:27 left. Then Carr and Allen mixed for Texas’ remaining 13 factors to carry off the Cardinals.

“It was probably our best second half of the season,” Terry stated.

Texas shot 45.2% from the discipline and had 22 assists on 28 baskets. Allen added 15 factors and 5 assists and Sir’Jabari Rice added 15 factors off the bench.

Stanford dropped to 4-7.

Even with the cloud of uncertainty hanging over Texas, Stanford coach Jerod Hasse stated the Longhorns seemed very like the prime 10 staff he’s scouted on movie.

“Teams tend to be kind of ingrained in what they do and how they play,” Hasse stated. “I thought it was pretty seamless. I didn’t see a lot of change from film from what they did out there.”

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