Cincinnati Bearcats 65, Texas Longhorns 59: Post-Mortem

A frustrating season comes to a fitting end for the Texas Longhorns.

The Longhorns, through a stupefying combination of incompetence and bad luck, scored 2 points in the first 12 1/2 minutes. They went into halftime down 31-17. They let the Bearcats extend the lead to 19. And they stormed back to tie the game at 52 with 3 minutes left to go before letting yet another close game slip through their fingers.

Stop me if you've heard this before.

Ultimately, the slow start created too high a mountain to scale all the way up. The Cincinnati