Vic Schaefer’s team is ahead of schedule.
In his first year with the Texas Longhorns, the former Mississippi State Bulldogs head coach and his gritty team pulled off a remarkable run to the Elite Eight as a sixth seed that ended on Tuesday in a 62-34 loss to the No. 1 seed South Carolina Gamecocks in San Antonio.
Playing with a limited rotation of six players following a physical game against Maryland on Sunday, Texas appeared to run out of gas — in barely more than two minutes to open the game, South Carolina jumped out to a 10-2 lead and never looked back, stretching the margin to 18-7 after the first quarter.