Just to show how important jump shooting can be in any individual game, if you “normalized” (that is, take each team’s season average) both teams’ 3-point shooting in the prior matchup, which Texas won 84-59, you get just a 4 point win for the Longhorns.
There were more issues than that, of course. Kansas shot just 40 percent on twos while allowing Texas to shoot over 50 percent, and the Jayhawks rebounded fewer than 30 percent of their misses. Still, I don’t think the gap between the two teams, even then, was as wide as the score suggested.