Stanford upsets No. 9 Texas 74-71 in OT at Austin

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AUSTIN, Texas — More times than he could count Tuesday night, Texas head coach Rick Barnes said, he turned away from the court at the Erwin Center, looked back at the bench and asked, “What are we doing?”

And more times than he could count, the answer was, “Not enough.” Not enough to keep Stanford off the offensive glass. Not enough to stop two hot-shooting Cardinal perimeter players from swishing jumper after jumper. And in the final seconds of overtime, not enough to get a quality shot or avoid a 74-71 loss.

The most uncharacteristic part of the night for Texas (10-2) was the way it allowed Stanford (7-3) to get just about any shot it wanted. Before Tuesday, the Longhorns hadn’t allowed any opponent this season to shoot better than 38.7 percent from the field.

The Cardinal, led by 25 points from Anthony Brown and 22 from Chasson Randle, shot 43.3 percent in the game, including 44.4-percent from three-point range.

Stanford’s biggest shot came on its final possession of overtime, while clinging to a one-point lead. Randle dribbled to the right wing and put a tremendous step-back move on Demarcus Holland, Texas’ best perimeter defender. With Holland on his heels, Randle hit a high-arcing jumper to put the Cardinal ahead by three.

“I wanted to create some space,” Randle said. “I knew once I got that, I could hit it.”

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When both Javan Felix and Holland clanged three-point attempts on Texas’ final possession, the No. 9 Longhorns endured their first home loss to an unranked nonconference opponent since 2007..

“They played the way Stanford plays,” Barnes said. “I don’t think we played the way Texas is supposed to play.”

The Cardinal found their two hot hands every time they needed them, and carved up a UT defense that had been one of the best in the country.

“They were able to get the ball where they wanted it,” Barnes said. “We didn’t do that.”

Mike Finger is a staff writer for the San Antonio Express-News.