North Carolina State 77, Texas 74

For the second consecutive game in East Rutherford, New Jersey as part of the TicketCity Legends Classic, the Texas Longhorns blew a 2nd half lead in heart-breaking fashion. This time the North Carolina State Wolfpack, down 18 with with 11:43 left to play, stormed back with a 19-1 run which tied the game at 66 with 6:10 remaining on the clock. Junior guard and team-leader J'Covan Brown spurred the Longhorns collapse by immaturely fouling out of the game at the 8:25 mark. Up to that point, Brown had performed brilliantly, scoring 17 points with 7 assists. But after being called for his 4th foul, Brown let out an expletive on his way to the bench and was promptly handed a technical foul, which sat him down for good. In full crisis mode without their leader, the Longhorns went on to allow the Wolfpack to run up a lead as high as 8 with 2:58 left in the game. With guard Julien Lewis misfiring on several jumpers down the stretch and point guard Myck Kabongo failing to help the cause at all, it was guard Sheldon McClellan who eventually took a stand and made a valiant attempt at stealing back the win from the Wolfpack. Closing the deficit to 3 with 58 seconds on the clock, Texas had two chances to send the game into overtime, but both McClellen and Lewis missed  on 3-point shot attempts. In his post-game interview, Longhorns coach Rick Barnes placed the blame firmly upon the shoulders of J'Covan Brown, who inexplicably continues to lose his head all too often within the heat of cempetition. As Barnes put it, "He has to grow up. He's been in the program for 3 years. He should know that he just can't do that. Sooner or later, he has to figure out that it's a team game and he has to realize that it's not about him. He has come a long way, but he should have had it all figured out by now."