Upstart Penn State has Texas' full attention before second-round matchup
The Texas-Texas A&M NCAA tournament matchup failed to materialize. Instead, the second-seeded Longhorns will have to battle 10th-seeded Penn State, one of the nation's most dangerous teams, on Saturday in Des Moines.DES MOINES, Iowa — The thought of a potential win-or-go-home battle with Texas A&M didn’t elicit many sparks inside Texas’ locker room late Thursday night at Wells Fargo Arena.
Well, Allen and the second-seeded Longhorns won’t have to worry about having any “rivalry renewed” storylines dolloped atop Saturday’s second-round matchup. They’ll just have to worry about stopping a Big Ten program that seems to be peaking at the perfect time. The Nittany Lions sure don’t look like a team that’ll be content with “just” winning their first NCAA tournament game since 2001. They’ve won nine of their last 11, one of the defeats a 67-65 loss to eventual East Region No. 1 seed Purdue in the Big Ten tournament title game.The crowd will almost certainly tilt heavily in favor of Penn State come Saturday.
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