Thanks to upset wins by the Kansas State Wildcats over the No. 6 Iowa State Cyclones and the UCF Knights over the TCU Horned Frogs, the Texas Longhorns earned the No. 7 seed in the Big 12 Tournament by beating the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday at the Moody Center.
Texas will face No. 10 seed Kansas State on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Central on ESPN+ with the winner moving on to the quarterfinals on Thursday to play No. 2 seed Iowa State.
Playing an unbalanced schedule because of the expansion to 14 teams this year, the Longhorns and Wildcats met only once — a 62-56 win by Texas in Austin last month, an ugly affair that saw senior forward Dylan Disu score 20 points on 10-of-11 shooting from the free-throw line to lead the home team, which shot 36.