# SEC Men's Basketball: Texas Longhorns Dominates Grambling Tigers 93-62 **Published:** 2026-11-10 — **By:** Stacy Stanfield **Category:** games — **Type:** game-recap **Source:** https://secscouts.com/news/sec-men-s-basketball-texas-longhorns-dominates-grambling-tigers-93-62 **Teams:** [Texas](https://secscouts.com/texas/) **Players:** [Elyjah Freeman](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5311502/elyjah-freeman), [Marcus Spears Jr.](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5210957/marcus-spears-jr), [Joe Sterling](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5210817/joe-sterling), [Matas Vokietaitis](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5239838/matas-vokietaitis) --- **AUSTIN, Texas (11/08/2026) —** The Texas Longhorns opened their home stand at Moody Center with a 93-62 victory over the Grambling Tigers on Sunday, delivering a wire-to-wire performance that left no doubt from the opening tip. Texas led at every point of the contest — 0 lead changes, 0 ties — shooting 51% from the field and 38% from three-point range to pull away decisively in front of 10,872 fans. ## How It Happened Texas set the tone immediately. Matas Vokietaitis converted a pair of free throws on the game's opening possession, and Elyjah Freeman followed with a dunk — assisted by Austin Goosby — to push the early advantage to 3-0. Grambling responded. Mekhi Fitts drilled a 23-footer, assisted by Brandon Hardy, to bring the Tigers within 6-3 at the 17:15 mark. But what followed ended any realistic hope of a Grambling comeback. Texas reeled off a 16-0 run — extending a 7-3 lead all the way to 22-5 — with Joe Sterling delivering the decisive blows. The guard buried back-to-back three-pointers from 24 and 25 feet in a span of 32 seconds, both assisted by Isaiah Johnson, to push the lead to 19-3. David Punch punctuated the run with a dunk off a Sterling feed, and Vokietaitis added another dunk at the 10:37 mark to make it 26-5. Grambling showed flashes of fight in the first half. Brandon Hardy knocked down consecutive 23-foot three-pointers — the first assisted by Dwayne Pierce, the second by Chancellor Perkins — cutting the deficit temporarily. Antonio Shannon buried a 26-footer to trim it further. But Texas countered every Grambling run. Austin Goosby and Bo Ogden hit back-to-back threes in the final 90 seconds of the half, and Shannon's buzzer-beating three made it a 28-point game at the break: Texas 55, Grambling 27. The second half brought more of the same. Freeman's dunk at the 17:50 mark put Texas up 62-31, and Vokietaitis added a 2-foot dunk moments later to push it to 64-31. By the 12:59 mark, Marcus Spears Jr. had converted an alley-oop dunk off a Johnson feed to make it 75-39, and the outcome was no longer in question. The Longhorns pushed past 90 in the game's final minutes, with John Clark's free throw sealing the final margin at 93-62. ## Turning Point The 16-0 Texas run, spanning the game's first nine minutes, made the decisive difference. When Sterling hit back-to-back triples between the 13:42 and 13:11 marks — turning a 6-point lead into 16 — Grambling faced a deficit it could not close against a Texas squad with length and shooting at every position. The Longhorns' rebounding advantage (45 to 34) and turnover margin (8 Texas turnovers to 13 for Grambling) only widened the gap across the remaining 36 minutes. ## Star of the Game Matas Vokietaitis put together the standout performance of the night, finishing with 26 points and 9 rebounds. The big man was a consistent force in the paint, recording dunks at the 19:39, 10:37, and 5:02 marks of the first half before carrying that dominance into the second half, where his 2-foot dunk at the 17:17 mark extended the Texas advantage to 64-31. His 26 points provided the offensive foundation for the Longhorns' comfortable final margin. Joe Sterling supplied 13 points and three assists, repeatedly finding open teammates while also knocking down three first-half threes. Marcus Spears Jr. contributed 12 points and four rebounds, while Freeman finished with 11 points and six boards. For Grambling, Fitts led with 13 points and six rebounds, and Shannon added 12 points and seven rebounds in a losing effort. ## What It Means For Texas, the win represents a strong early-season performance on their home floor. The Longhorns' ability to shoot efficiently from the perimeter — 12 made threes at 38% — while protecting the ball and dominating the boards signals a team with real depth and balance heading into conference play. The Moody Center crowd saw multiple contributors step up behind Vokietaitis, with four players finishing in double figures. For Grambling, the defeat reflects the gap in personnel between programs. The Tigers showed competitive moments — Hardy's pair of first-half threes, Shannon's consistent scoring — but the 23% three-point shooting and 13 turnovers created too steep a climb against a Texas squad that never relented. --- *Original article: [SEC Men's Basketball: Texas Longhorns Dominates Grambling Tigers 93-62](https://secscouts.com/news/sec-men-s-basketball-texas-longhorns-dominates-grambling-tigers-93-62) — SEC Scouts*