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No. 4 Women’s Basketball preview: Mississippi State
02.20.2026 | Women's Basketball
Game 29
No. 4 Texas (25-3, 10-3) vs Mississippi State (18-9, 5-8)
Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026 – 1:00 p.m. Central
Moody Center | Austin, Texas
GameDay Quick Facts
TELEVISION: The game will be nationally televised on SEC Network with Brenda VanLengen (pxp) and Andrea Lloyd (analyst) on the call.
RADIO: The game will be broadcast on AM 1300 The Zone and TexasSports.Com. Craig Way and Kathy Harston will have the call.
Notables
• SENIOR DAY: This will be the Longhorns senior day game and they will honor Rori Harmon, Sarah Graves, Kyla Oldacre, Ashton Judd and Teya Sidberry following the game.
• ALUMNI WEEKEND: The Longhorns will welcome back nearly 70 former players and their guests this weekend. The alums will be honored at halftime of the game with special recognition for the 1986 national championship team on their 40th anniversary.
• RANKED OPPONENTS: Texas is 10-3 on the season against ranked opponents with four wins against top-10 teams (No. 2 South Carolina, No. 3 UCLA, No. 5 LSU, No. 10 Oklahoma).
• HARMON BREAKS TEXAS STEALS RECORD: Texas point guard Rori Harmon broke the Longhorns all-time steals in the victory over LSU. Harmon tallied six steals in the game and now has 359 for her career. The previous record of 346 was established in 1980 by Linda Waggoner.
• HARMON BREAKS ASSIST RECORD: Rori Harmon tallied nine assists and the game-winning shot against South Carolina in Las Vegas. Harmon broke the 40-year record previously held by Kamie Ethridge with her 777th assist. Harmon now has 909 career assists. Harmon is now the first and only player in NCAA DI women's basketball history to reach 1,500+ points, 900+ assists, 350+ steals and 600+ rebounds.
• BOOKER IN SEC PLAY: All-American and national player of the year candidate Madison Booker is averaging 18.3 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.3 steals per game in conference play and is shooting 47.1 percent from the field.
• IN THE MOOD: Texas has won 40 straight home games at Moody Center and have a 65-5 all-time mark in their fourth season of their home arena.
• NUMBER ONE RECRUITING CLASS: The Longhorns have inked the No. 1 recruiting class for 2026. Texas is the only program to sign multiple top-10 kids. The Longhorns recruiting class of Brihanna Crittendon, Addison Bjorn, Lizzy Spaight and Amalia Holguin has been ranked No. 1 by CBS Sports and ESPN. Bjorn, Crittendon and Spaight were named McDonald's All-Americans.
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