Texas A&M coach Bucky McMillan opens up the postgame press conference complementing Texas for being a good team. He felt it was anybody's game, but he felt the Aggies simply made shots in the second half after a great first half defensively.

McMillan: "Jamie Vinson was awesome."

The former Longhorn had four points in six minutes today.

McMillon said the Aggies might not have the front-line talent of some of the other SEC teams, but he believes they're legitimately 10-12 guys deep.

McMillan described his offense as a flow offense that isn't scripted when asked how the Aggies were able to attack Texas with backdoor cuts on several second-half possessions. It wasn't anything opponent-specific, he said, adding that the Aggies ran their offense and didn't let poor shooting in the first half discourage them from doing what they do.

A&M ended the game shooting 50.9 percent from the field (27-for-53), including an 8-for-20 day from beyond the arc.

Granted, you have to account for the gap in the series, but the Aggies hadn't won in Austin since 2002 before today.

McMillan said they wanted to make everything hard on Matas today and be physical with him.

Matas finished with 14 points, but he had to go 8-for-12 at the foul line to score in double figures.

McMillian is done. Sean Miller and the Texas players are next.

Jordan Pope and Tramon Mark both said Texas came out sloppy to start the second half, for whatever reason, and the Longhorns never recovered.

The theme for Mark and Pope was how sloppy Texas was throughout the game, especially coming out of halftime.

Mark felt Texas got the shots it wanted.

"We can't ask for better looks than what we got," he said. "We've just got to make them."

Pope said the Longhorns need to attack the next few days the way they did after the Tennessee loss.

"As a point guard, I've got to do a better job of getting my guys ready," he said.

Mark said that because the next game is at Kentucky, Texas can't afford to waste days.

"We need to have a short memory," he said. 

Pope is confident that Texas can and will rebound from this loss.

Pope said defense was the issue in the second half.

"I know we'll fix it and we'll be ready to go against Kentucky," he said.

"You never want to be on the losing side of a rivalry," Pope said.

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Pope said defense was the issue in the second half.

"I know we'll fix it and we'll be ready to go against Kentucky," he said.

I thought they fixed that. 

Pope said A&M deserves credit for the win, but he felt the Longhorns' wounds were, for the most part, self-inflicted.

"We did it to ourselves," he said.

Sean Miller is next.

Miller said A&M "outclassed" Texas today and was "the better team in every way."

The lesson Miller wants the team to learn from this is that they didn't understand the stakes based on the lack of juice coming out of halftime.

Miller felt Texas lost the game in the first four minutes of the second half. 

"We didn't come out ready to attack after halftime," he said.

A&M dominated Texas in bench scoring, 20-6.

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A&M dominated Texas in bench scoring, 20-6.

A lack of bench production shouldn't prevent Texas from winning, Miller said. But he felt A&M's depth wore Texas down in the second half.

Miller liked how Texas handled A&M's press with only eight turnovers. But he felt the Longhorns wore down.