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Luke Winn on Texas Basketball

Bumped. Apologies for the lack of posting today... Working on the SBN Power 16 piece which will run tomorrow morning at SBNation.com. In the meantime, Luke Winn's thoughts on the Longhorns in his own power rankings for the week. --PB

Weekly CNNSI Basketball Power Rankings....and yes, I agree with Luke on this.

#10 Texas Longhorns (19-3)

Just when I was starting to feel really bad about the Longhorns -- bad enough that I worried they wouldn't be able to give Kansas much of a game on Feb. 8 -- they pulled out a solid road win at Oklahoma State that featured a (much-needed) 27-point breakout performance from freshman Jordan Hamilton. So there's some hope that the KU-Texas game, which about a month ago was being viewed as college hoops' regular-season Super Bowl, can still live up to the hype. Unfortunately, good-luck charm Kevin Durant, who sat behind the bench in Stillwater, is unlikely to make it. He and the Oklahoma City Thunder are on a West Coast swing, and it seems he'll be watching the game from a Portland hotel. John Calipari has been milking his LeBron connection for all it's worth at Kentucky, but is there any better recruiting chip than having Durant show up to Texas games during each of his three years in the NBA, and be willing to do interviews in which he talks about the 'Horns and how he does offseason workouts in Austin? Having the NBA's biggest rising star as an enthusiastic TV pitchman for your program, even though he was one-and-done, is worth more than thousands of recruiting letters.


See the rest of the Power Rankings here.

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