Vic Schaefer

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Did you say the women are playing too? Texas women, Vic Schaefer? Yeah,

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And Mikayla Williams, why is she a scorer? a 6-foot guard averaging 4.2 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 3.6 assists.

Coming at number nine is the Texas Longhorns, and they're coached by Vic Schaefer, who overall season last year was 35-4, a conference record of 15-1.

And Horn was perfect, 17-0, and a way that was 10-2.

And they're led by a player that reminds me of Kevin Durant, Madison Booker, a forward.

This is the second game that she's looked really good, and it's also a way better opponent that she's doing it against.

And Vic Schaefer, like, I, I don't blame him.

I'm not, like, I'm not knocking him.

Like, he, he pointed out, and I largely agree, that with eight new players, losing Rory Harmon, who was obviously a phenomenal defender, as their point guard and on, best on ball defender, and then a lot of other important pieces.

The defense is not where Texas is usually, it, where they usually have it.

I mean, this has been a top three defense in the country in each of the last three seasons.

Since Vic Schaefer's second year at Texas on, I believe they've been at least top 10 nationally every single year.

I, I imagine by the time they open the regular season in two weeks, it's gonna be a much better defense.

Then she ends the third quarter with four.

So that was the thing that Vic Schaefer was concerned about with with her playing the minutes that she's going to play and playing aggressively.

But they struggled to generate offense, and they were outscored in the third quarter 19-8.

For me, as I said, this is the biggest takeaway.

Was it fatigue, UConn's defensive adjustments, foul trouble, or a combination of all three? I personally think it was all three, and I'll talk a little bit more about that in a second.

The third takeaway that I have from the game is that Texas has questions at point guard.

Vic Schaefer wasn't really pleased with the team's point guard play.

Now, I think Vic's going to be hard to please after having Rory Harmon for five seasons, four seasons, however many she played for him, because she's just hard to replace.

But Texas, I think in South Carolina, kind of in the upper echelon, especially with what Texas has done recently.

I think we see Vic Schaefer win.

Once they come to the well here in Greenville for the SEC tournament, he's going to be taking off his blazer first quarter because we know that's one of his trademarks when he gets heated to try to cool down.

But, yeah, I have no doubt that the Gamecocks will be competing for not only the conference but the national championship once again.

Game 3 will be tomorrow in Atlanta in a 1-1 tie.

Also for Vic Schaefer and the Texas women's basketball team, a little bit of an exhibition out there in Connecticut against UConn.

It was tied at the half, but Texas outscored 46-24 in the second half, UConn pulling away in that one.

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