That was just crazy. Texas kept turning the ball over each time down the court. Then, they kept stopping Abilene Christian on the other side of the court.

So, with about a minute left in the game, Andrew Jones from Texas drives to the basket and gets fouled. Jones hit both free throws to make it 51-49.

Abilene Christian tried draining the clock – which led to Reggie Miller having to drive to the basket to try to beat the shot clock – instead, he loses control of the ball out-of-bounds and it is Texas ball.

Texas comes down the field, Matt Coleman III drives towards the basket, and passes the ball out to Jones on the wing, who hits a big-time three-pointer to give the Longhorns the lead with just 16 seconds.

Abilene Christian has one more chance – where Damian Daniels drives down the lane but with 2 seconds his shot gets blocked from behind by Kai Jones. Unfortunately, for Texas, the ball gets blocked hard off the backboard and into the hands of Abilene Christian’s Joe Pleasant – who gets fouled as he tried to go back up for the basket.

The junior normally shoots 58.8% from the free throw line, but with the game on the line, Pleasant calmly hits both free throws, Texas’s desparation in-bounds pass gets stolen, and Abilene Christian allows the 14 seeds to have someone to crash the second round party.

It wasn’t pretty. The Wildcats only hit 29.9% of their shots from the field. They were 3-18 from three-point range. They only scored 53 points. But they also forced Texas into committing 23 turnovers. That defense has sent Abilene Christian to the second round, and has finally delivered the first loss to the Big 12.