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Brad Buckman and Kenton Paulino play their final home game at 3pm today on CBS.

When Brad Buckman plays well, Texas is going to be tough to beat.

The Longhorns fell to Texas A&M last night in Aggieland. It was an absolutely brutal basketball game to watch. Both teams played absolutely terrible and put on a clinic on how to play sloppy offense. Turnovers galore and Coach Billy Gillespie’s annoyingly effective defensive strategy turned this one into a snoozer. When you have lesser talent, it’s an incredibly smart strategy to play tough, physical defense to hold the score down and hope to be close enough to make a late run at the end of games.

The game came down to the final minutes and Texas made one more mistake than they could afford. After a timeout with 15 seconds to go in the game and 10 seconds left on the shot clock, Rick Barnes called an isolation play to give P.J. Tucker a chance to make a play and Tucker apparently lost track of time remaining. He dribbled out the shot clock and didn’t get off a shot. Then with less than 4 seconds to go, UT guard Daniel Gibson gave the Aggie’s Acie Law got off a clean 3 pointer that he drained for the win.

Definitely a disappointing performance coming off the big win over Kansas, but not the end of the world for the basketball team. They already probably weren’t getting a #1 seed for the NCAA Tournament and still should be at worst a #3 unless they lose to Oklahoma this weekend and lose early in the Big 12 Tourney. The team definitely has to play more consistently if they plan on making any kind of run in March.

Note to Aggie fans: You’re not supposed to rush the court when you a beat a team you claim is your rival. And with your non-conference schedule you’re probably still not making it into the NCAA Tournament.

As if deciding to attend Texas A&M wasn’t bad enough, Aggie forward Chris Walker and his friends decided to film themselves singing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in their dorm room.

If they weren’t shirtless, it would only be really ghey but three shirtless dudes and puka shell necklaces put it over the top. Nice work guys but you have a long way to go to match these guys.

Update: And don’t worry, apparently Aggies can also rap. Hilarious.

Update 2: Holy crap, I should have clicked “More from this user” before. There’s a total of six videos from Chris and his friends including “Till I Collapse” and “Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong.” Their version of “What a Wonderful World” looks like it took way too much prep time but does prove they own shirts. I really think this all would’ve been okay if they had just worn shirts.

(Hat tip to Bradthehorn on Orangebloods)

They’ve got LaMarcus Aldridge going in the top 3 in pretty much every scenario.

Longhorn message board coaches show ignorance & proclaim the end.

Love and sports don’t mix. It takes a special woman to let their man attend a sporting event on Valentine’s Day and contrary to my fond memories of my college years I guess there aren’t too many special women in Austin these days.

Attendance at last night’s Texas versus Baylor basketball game was abysmal as the Erwin Center was about half full to watch the Bears get pasted. The Horns jumped out fast and dominated inside as LaMarcus Aldridge scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, P.J. Tucker added 21 and 6, and Brad Buckman had 12 points and 11 boards. Most of the Texas starters were able to spend most of the second half sitting next to Rick Barnes and Todd Wright.

I was actually contemplating watching the game, but was saved from that risky decision by the Horns 20 – 3 run to open the game. Horns got an easy win and my relationship survived another day, so everyone’s a winner.

Moving from A&M to Missouri isn’t job hopping, it’s called climbing the ladder.

Man, is there a huge gap between #2 and #3.

Close game at the half but fifteen point run midway through second half puts the game away.