Postgame Notebook: #3 Texas completes comeback vs #5 LSU

LSU star projections and things have changed in Austin, Texas.

Editor’s Note: In light of a busy day in women’s college basketball, our postgame notebook from Texas vs. LSU leads us off before Five Out drops, which should be around the lunchtime hours.

Hello! Stop number two of my top-ranked roadtrip took me to Austin, Texas! Los Angeles treated me to some real hoops and Austin did much of the same. What did I see that the broadcast might have missed? Let’s dive in!

Texas is ready to level up

I have now been to several games at Texas’ Moody Center, which is my favorite arena I have ever covered a game at. Every big game I have gone to the scenes have leveled up.

I was at the UConn game last season in Texas and the energy was legit. A big game feel for sure. But this game against LSU was a different level, and while I wasn’t there everything I heard made it safe to assume the game against South Carolina was in a similar vein.

The lines outside the building were there early, the students were incredible, and the crowd was SO engaged. Even during timeouts it felt like such a limited amount of fans were getting up to go to the concourse.

Now you add in the young talent already on the roster and the recruits coming in (get ready for Aaliyah Crump!) to that atmosphere and investment. You have genuinely a chance to reach a tier that Texas hasn’t been in for a minute. When it comes to a talent and resource perspective, I don’t see much of anything stopping Texas from having the ability of joining the South Carolina and UConn type programs of the world…well besides the South Carolina and UConn type programs of the world.