Texas hosts Georgia as it slides off the bubble

With five losses in the last six games, the Texas Longhorns are slumping and sliding off the bubble in crunch time of the regular season, but play their first home game at the Moody Center in two weeks on Saturday against the Georgia Bulldogs.

Now the last team in the NCAA Tournament field, according to ESPN’s Bracketology, only included in 26 of the 95 brackets tracked by BracketMatrix.com, and with tournament odds that dropped roughly in half to 43 percent thanks to losses in the last two games against South Carolina and Arkansas, Texas is trending in the wrong direction entering the final three regular-season games.

“It’s kind of a sense of desperation. But when we know what we’re able to…