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It will be a classic confrontation between No. 23 Texas youthful balance and Northwesterns experience when the two teams square off Monday in the semifinals of the 10th annual Legends Classic at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.The contest follows the first semifinal game between Notre Dame and Colorado. The losers of Mondays games square off at 2:30 p.m. CST Tuesday while the winners meet at 5 p.m.The Longhorns are off to a 3-0 start, most recently defeating Eastern Washington 89-52 on Thursday. Sophomore swingman Tevin Mack paced five Texas players in double figures with 19 points off the bench.No Texas player saw more than 28 minutes of action during the contest (28 by freshman center Jarrett Allen and senior guard Kendal Yancy). Eight UT players saw at least 19 minutes of action.At this point last season we had played better competition than weve played this year so everythings relative, Texas coach Shaka Smart said after Thursdays win. Now the question is: Can we go on the road? The competition level will go up in New York. We will see better athletes. We will see more size. We will see better teams. How do we respond to that?In his two games, Mack paces Texas with an average of 16.5 points per contest. He leads six different Texas players who are averaging double figures in scoring through their first three games. Five Longhorns are averaging at least 5.0 rebounds per game.Texas has excellent on the defensive end as well, especially at running shooters off the 3-point line. Opponents are shooting just 33.5 percent from the field against the Longhorns. Texas has limited its first three opponents to 21.8 percent (17-of- 78) shooting from 3-point range and held Eastern Washington to 14.3 percent (3-21) from beyond the arc in Thursdays victory.Through the Longhorns first three contests, Yancy ranks second on the squad in scoring (13.7 ppg), leads the team in steals (5) and is tied for the team lead in minutes (29.3 mpg). He has converted 54.2 percent (13-24) from the floor and 84.6 percent (11-13) free throws this season.Were pretty confident right now and we are in a good place, Yancy said. We just have to keep improving. We have a lot of young guys who are willing to give it their all, willing to improve and grow every day. Just the energy they bring is good for the team in general.Northwestern (2-1) heads to the Big Apple off a buzzer-beating 70-68 loss at Butler on Wednesday.We went into that game expecting to win, so it hurt, Northwestern coach Chris Collins said. In the past, maybe it was okay to go to Butler and play them to the last shot of the game. To us, thats not what we were looking for. I sensed an anger in the team last night, which I liked. They know it was a game we very well could have got. We just didnt close the deal.Sophomore forward Vic Law led four Wildcats in double figures with 17 points, including hitting 5 of 6 3-point attempts. The contest featured 17 ties and 16 lead changes.Im confident in how our teams going to be, Law said. But Im angry that we let it slip away. We have to win games like (the loss to Butler). Its as simple as that.Law has enjoyed a solid return to the Northwestern attack after missing all of the 2015-16 campaign due to shoulder injury. Hes the teams leading scorer at 20.3 points per game, has paced the Wildcats in scoring in all three games and tallied at least 17 points in each contest, including a career-high 26 vs. Eastern Washington on Nov. 14. Through three games he is shooting 64.5 percent from the field (20-of-31).Northwestern returns 61.4 percent of its scoring and 71.4 percent of its rebounding from a year ago. The Wildcats welcome back three starters and 10 letter winners overall from a team that won 20 regular-season games for the first time in school history.Its been 42 years since Texas and Northwestern have played on the basketball court, and the teams have split two previous meetings. The Wildcats won 73-71 on Dec. 21, 1965 in Memphis, Tenn., while the Longhorns won 63-59 on Dec. 23, 1974 in Austin.The Wildcats and Longhorns already have one common opponent this season: Eastern Washington. Northwestern beat the Eagles 86-72 on Nov. 14 in Evanston while Texas rumbled past EWU 85-52 three nights later in Austin.Air Max Plus Store . -- Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Farmar will be out for roughly four weeks after tearing his left hamstring. Air Max Plus Clearance . 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It had been quite a while for his New Mexico Lobos, too.Davie earned his first career bowl victory when the Lobos, boosted by a pair of short touchdown runs from Richard McQuarley, beat Texas-San Antonio 23-20 Saturday in the New Mexico Bowl.Davie had been 0-4 in bowls -- three when he coached at Notre Dame, then last year with the Lobos in this event.The Lobos (9-4) posted just their second bowl victory in a half-century.There wasnt a whole of jumping up and down and whole lot of screaming and a whole lot of carrying on afterward in the locker room, Davie said.But after the season that we had, its more feeling. You dont experience this a whole lot of times, he said.The Lobos previous postseason win came in the 2007 New Mexico Bowl over Nevada. Before that, it was a victory in the 1961 Aviation Bowl.In his fifth season at New Mexico, Davie completed the turnaround of a program that won three total games in the three seasons before his arrival.The Lobos lost last years New Mexico Bowl to Arizona.These players, Ive talked to them in depth about enjoying the moment and definitely this afternoon was a great moment that doesnt come along very often, Davie said.Its another building block, he said. Thats what a college program is. You keep taking steps and you keep building and building and building. ... So there is no question that winning the last game is big.Jarveon Williams ran for 125 yards for the Roadrunners (6-7), who lost in their first bowl appearance in the programs six-year history.Despite the hype around New Mexicos triple-option threat and the Lobos leading the nation in rushing, the Roadrunners ran for more yards than the Lobos.We didnt make ennough plays today, Williams said after his eighth game of running for at least 100 yards.dddddddddddd.New Mexico quarterback Lamar Jordan rushed for 81 yards and threw a 34-yard pass to Dameon Gamblin that set up McQuarleys 1-yard burst for a 23-13 lead with 2:22 left.Dalton Sturm threw two TD passes for Texas-San Antonio, including a 4-yard toss to JaBryce Taylor with 25 seconds remaining. The Roadrunners failed to recover an onside kick.Six Lobos combined for 219 yards rushing. New Mexico was able to keep UTSAs big-play receivers mostly in check amid windy conditions.Although the wind may have played a factor in some passes, Roadrunners coach Frank Wilson said there were other passes receivers dropped that they normally catch.We finished second. Period, Wilson said. The weather didnt determine the outcome of the game.THE TURNING POINTThe Lobos fourth-quarter drive to a touchdown took more than seven minutes off the clock in a game that saw few passes.We didnt have a lot of offense, Davie said. But when we needed it there in the fourth quarter after UTSA scored to make it a 3-point game, we had enough offense.UP NEXTNew Mexico: The Lobos will try to capture their first Mountain West championship next year. Davie said a bowl win was key for Lobos recruiting to the next level. The Lobos open next season against Abilene Christian.UTSA: Athletic officials from UTSA say they came to win the New Mexico Bowl but felt the bowl appearance would help get on potential recruits radars, especially in Texas where some powerhouses are currently struggling. The Roadrunners will open next season against Houston. ' ' '