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NCAA Division I Basketball Mens, round 64

AwayTexas79
Final
HomeBYU71
Thursday, March 19, 2026All Olympia sports
FinalFinalTBSPlay by play
12T
TEX463379
BYU373471
Final

Texas beats BYU 79-71

#11 Texas Longhorns beat #6 BYU Cougars 79-71 on Thursday at Moda Center.

The first half made the difference: Texas outscored BYU 46-37.

Texas shot 47% to 43% and won the boards 40-31.

For Texas, Matas Vokietaitis (C): 23. For BYU, AJ Dybantsa (F): 35.

Texas improves to 20-14. BYU falls to 23-12.

Attendance: 14,070.

Full recap at ESPN: Vokietaitis has 23 as No. 11 seed Texas gets past Dybantsa and No. 6 BYU 79-71 in March Madness

Written automatically from the box score. Every number comes straight from the game feed.

Top performers

#8
TEX · PointsMatas Vokietaitis C23
#3
TEX · AssistsDailyn Swain G6
#8
TEX · ReboundsMatas Vokietaitis C16
#3
BYU · PointsAJ Dybantsa F35
#1
BYU · AssistsRobert Wright III G3
#3
BYU · ReboundsAJ Dybantsa F10
StatsMINPTSFG3PTFTREBASTTOSTLBLKOREBDREBPF
C. Heide F2052-41-20-020120112
M. Vokietaitis C332310-170-03-11161101972
J. Pope G32114-113-90-022200023
D. Swain G37146-121-31-156110233
T. Mark G35196-133-64-442124132
N. Codie F1300-20-00-021000023
C. Weaver G2052-40-11-232100122
S. Wilcher G1021-30-10-020110022
Team7931-668-229-184014965162419

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