Texas hosts Oklahoma on Senior Night with SEC Tournament seed on the line

With the Texas Longhorns as one of six SEC teams between 10-7 and 9-8 heading into the conference’s final gameday of the regular season, there are plenty of seeding scenarios that could play out depending on Saturday’s results, including the Horns hosting the Oklahoma Sooners in a Senior Night edition of the Red River Rivalry at the Moody Center.

Currently the No. 9 seed set for a first-round matchup against South Carolina in the SEC Tournament on Wednesday, the outcome tomorrow will determine whether head coach Sean Miller’s team secures a first-round bye, but Miller doesn’t necessarily believe that playing on the first or second day conveys an advantage in either direction.

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“Sometimes you get into that neutral-court setting and you play really well on Wednesday, and then it just leads into the next day, whereas that team, even though they had the bye, they haven’t played on the court yet. They haven’t made a shot and it takes them a while to get going,” Miller said on Friday.

Of course, having to play on Wednesday would have an impact if one of the eight lowest seeds advances to the semifinals on Saturday or the championship game on Sunday given the demands of playing that many games on consecutive days, but that’s less of a concern for the Longhorns than beating the Sooners on Saturday to avoid a blow to their postseason resume.

The odds of an upset by Oklahoma have increased over the five weeks since Texas rallied for a 79-69 win in Norman — Porter Moser’s team has bounced back from a 1-9 start in SEC play to win five of its last seven games, which won’t be enough to make the NCAA Tournament barring a shocking run through the conference tournament, and probably won’t be enough save Moser’s job assuming that the Sooners can afford his buyout.

But it does make OU a dangerous team because of an offense that ranks eighth nationally in adjusted efficiency over the last 10 games.

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