2025-2026 Season
Overall Record: 21-14
SEC Record: 9-9 (10th)
KenPom Ranking: 31
Previous 3 Games
3/21: W – 74 – 68 vs Gonzaga @ NCAA Round of 32
3/19: W – 79 – 71 vs BYU @ NCAA Round of 64
3/6: W – 68 – 66 vs NC State @ NCAA Play In Game
Record vs KenPom Top 50: 6-11
Best KenPom Win: 1/14 – 80-64 Vs #11 Vanderbilt
Worst KenPom Lost: 1/3/ – 101-98 vs #101 Mississippi
Texas Personnel
Starters
| Position | # | Player | Class | Height | Weight | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point Guard | 0 | Jordan Pope | Sr. | 6’1″ | 180 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 2 |
| Shooting Guard | 12 | Tramon Mark | Sr. | 6’5″ | 210 | 28 | 14 | 4 | 2 |
| Small Forward | 5 | Camden Heide | Jr. | 6’7″ | 215 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Power Forward | 3 | Dailyn Swain | Jr. | 6’8″ | 225 | 33 | 17 | 8 | 4 |
| Center | 8 | Matas Vokietaitis | So. | 7’0″ | 255 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 1 |
Bench
| Position | # | Player | Class | Height | Weight | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wing/Forward | 10 | Nic Codie | So. | 6’8″ | 220 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Guard | 2 | Chendall Weaver | Sr. | 6’3″ | 180 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| Point Guard | 7 | Simeon Wilcher | Jr. | 6’4″ | 200 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
Key Analytics
(Per KenPom.com – National Rank ())
KenPom Ranking – 31
Offense
Adjusted Efficiency: 124.4 (15)
Adjusted Tempo: 66.7 (222)
Average Possession Length: 18.2 (252)
Effective Field Goal%: 53.9 (71)
Offensive Rebound%: 35.4 (38)
Three Point%: 34.8 (129)
Two Point %: 54.8 (33)
Defense
Adjusted Efficiency: 104.2 (81)
Adjusted Tempo: 66.7 (222)
Average Possession Length: 17.1 (78)
Effective Field Goal%: 50.7 (142)
Offensive Rebound%: 26.6 (26)
Three Point%: 35.1 (253)
Two Point %: 49.8 (92)
Thoughts / Odds and Ends
- Texas has the positional size that occasionally bothers Purdue, and Braden Smith in particular
- The front-court battle should be must-see TV if the refs allow the big men to bang in the post.
- Vokietaitis could be a problem. He’s 3rd in the nation in fouls drawn per 40 (8.4). Benter and Jacobsen could play an important role in this game.
- Speaking of DJ, Vokietaitis is 13/28 (46%) from the free-throw line in the tournament, including an abysmal 3/11 performance against BUY that kept the Cougars in the game. DJ has 5 fouls and rarely uses them; hacking Vokietaitis when the Longhorns are in the 1-and-1 might not be a bad idea.
- The Longhorns struggle from behind the arc. They score 26.3% of their points from 3, that’s good for 257th in the nation. Their best shooter, Cam Heide at 46%, but that’s on low volume. He’s hit 2 more 3’s than Omer.
- Texas has 3 different KenPom MVPs in their 3 tournament games (Weaver, Vokietaitis, Swain).
- Neither BYU nor Gonzaga was a good 3-point shooting team, and neither hit 3’s against Texas. Purdue will be a totally different animal. Even if the Boilermakers shots aren’t falling, Texas has to respect Purdue’s shooters. That should keep Texas from packing the paint on defense like they did last season.
- Only one of these teams has a coach who was fired after an FBI investigation.
- Speaking of Sean Miller, he has a huge advantage over Matt Painter when it comes to Level I NCAA Violations.
- Despite Coach Miller’s questionable (read non-existent) ethics, Matt Painter has the lead in Final 4 appearances, and yet, you never hear “the best coach to never make the Final 4” designation that followed Paint around until 2024 hung around Sean Miller’s neck…despite the fact that he’s had exponentially better talent over the course of his career.
- Matthew McConaughey smells bad. I have no proof of this, but I feel like he smells like a heady combination of patchouli and week-old sweat socks.
- Only one of these teams has a mascot I’d enjoy eating.
- Austin went from being the home of Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Willie Nelson, Blaze Foley, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lucinda Williams, Daniel Johnston, and Townes Van Zandt to the home of tech bros and social media “influencers”.
- I’ve had more bad barbecue in Texas than good barbecue (sausage game is elite though).
In Summary
She gets it…
