In an excruciating loss, the Longhorns looked for a while like they were on their way go the Final Four, then saw a 13-point second-half lead dwindle until the team that had scoffed at peril for three months finally couldn’t escape it.
Head coach Rodney Terry of the Texas Longhorns and Timmy Allen leave the court after being defeated by the Miami Hurricanes 88-81 in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at T-Mobile Center on March 26, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri.KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It was over, finally, and this time neither Marcus Carr nor Timmy Allen could talk themselves out of accepting that.
They didn’t give the game away, but they this time they didn’t seize it, either. The shots that had found the bottom of the net for most of the postseason started spinning off the rim, and a key whistle went against them, and the defense that held strong for so long gave way to a few cracks. Afterwards, when that was sinking in, Terry sobbed when talking about Allen, Carr and the rest of the unheralded members of the best UT team since 2008, and he explained that his tears flowed because he understood what they overcame.
Said Carr: “He was a calming, steady voice. He never wavered or seemed unprepared for the moment. He let us know our goals weren’t changing.”
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