Kansas State University Athletics
Kansas State University
13-8, 3-7
Texas
16-7, 5-5
Wildcats edged by No. 23 Texas in overtime, 75-72
Feb 12, 2005 | Men's Basketball
AUSTIN, Texas Fred Peete scored a career-high 28 points and Jeremiah Massey added 14, including two free throws with six seconds to play to force overtime, but No. 23 Texas had too much left in the tank during the extra session as the Longhorns held off Kansas State, 75-72, Saturday afternoon at the Frank Erwin Center.
Kansas State (13-4, 3-7) scored the final seven points in regulation, but went cold early in the overtime period in suffering its fourth straight loss and its second on the road this year in OT since the start of Big 12 play.
Daniel Gibson scored 23 points and Brad Buckman and Sydmill Harris each added 17 to lead Texas (16-7, 5-5), which led by as many as nine points with just under a minute to play in the extra session. Buckman also grabbed 10 rebounds as the Longhorns finished with a 38-27 edge on the glass to snap a three-game slide.
Lance Harris scored eight of his 13 points in the first half and was the only other Wildcat to score in double figures.
Kansas State trailed by as many as 14 points with less than three minutes to play in the first half before making a valiant run in the second. Peete, who netted a career-best seven trays on the afternoon, sparked an 18-9 Wildcat run that pulled K-State within a bucket of the Longhorns at 42-40 midway through the second half.
But the Wildcats just could not hit that key shot to take the lead and it looked like Texas was going to put the game on ice with time running down.
However, K-State refused to go away. Trailing 57-50 with 1:14 remaining in regulation, K-State use a jumper and a free throw by Peete to pull within four before Massey hit four free throws in the final 38 seconds to force overtime.
Texas led 33-22 after a first half that saw the Wildcats play toe-to-toe with the Longhorns for the first 15 minutes before struggling down the stretch.
Harris drilled his second trey of the period from the top of the key with just under seven minutes to go to pull K-State within 24-19, but the Cats suddenly went cold from the field, missing their next seven shots and going scoreless over the next six minutes of the game.
Texas used the K-State drought to fashion a 9-0 run and took its biggest lead of the half at 33-19 lead with 2:38 remaining in the opening period.
Martin hit a free throw to finally stop the bleeding for K-State with 38 seconds remaining and Peete hit a runner at the buzzer as the Wildcats tallied the final three points of the half to slice UT’s advantage to 11 at the break.
