Overview
- Texas and Kentucky meet in the Sweet 16 on Saturday at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, with TV on ABC and streaming on the ESPN app.
- The Longhorns reached the second weekend by beating Missouri State and then rolling past Oregon behind a 40-point game from Madison Booker.
- The Wildcats advanced by topping James Madison and then upsetting West Virginia to secure their first Sweet Sixteen in ten years.
- This is a rematch of Texas’s 64-53 win over Kentucky on Feb. 9 in Austin in the regular season.
- Odds and projections lean heavily to Texas, with ESPN’s model giving an 86% chance and FanDuel listing Texas by 14.5 points as of Saturday morning.