ISO Spotlight: How The Longhorns Upset Tennessee

This has been a disappointing season for fans of the Texas Longhorns. After opening the season ranked in the AP's Top 25, Texas lost to South Florida, then got blown out by Arizona, then lost to North Carolina State. They followed that up by just barely beating North Texas and then losing to Hawaii, at which point the team sat at 4-4 on the season. I wrote a few weeks ago about what was going wrong for Texas, but the easy answer was "pretty much everything."

So, I'm sure most people weren't expecting much on Sunday when Texas faced a then No. 17 Tennessee team. The Lady Vols are one of the most historically successful teams in women's basketball, but they haven't been to the Final Four since 2008 and haven't advanced past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament since 2016. That said, 2019 is looking like the best Tennessee squad we've seen in awhile, and this game was in Knoxville, so...