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AUSTIN, Texas<\/a> (AP) Josh Hubbard scored 10 of his career-high-tying 38 points in overtime and Mississippi State<\/a> beat Texas 101-98 on Saturday night in a Southeastern Conference opener.<\/p>\n Hubbard had the first basket in overtime and his three-point play with 2:05 remaining gave Mississippi State (9-5) a 96-90 lead. Tramon Mark stole the ball and scored after hitting a 3-pointer in a 6-0 run that followed, and Texas (9-5) tied it with 51 seconds left.<\/p>\n Hubbard buried a go-ahead 3-pointer 12 seconds later following a Bulldogs\u2019 timeout, and then made two free throws with six seconds remaining. Simeon Wilcher missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer for Texas.<\/p>\n Hubbard, who had 20 points by halftime to help Mississippi State take a 48-43 lead into intermission, made 10 of 31 shots with six 3-pointers and hit 12 of 15 at the free-throw line. Jayden Epps totaled 27 points on 9-for-21 shooting and added five assists. Achor Achor finished with 10 points and 13 rebounds off the bench in the Bulldogs’ fifth straight victory.<\/p>\n Dailyn Swain led Texas with career highs of 34 points and 14 rebounds before fouling out. Mark had 20 points and Matas Vokietaitis scored 19.<\/p>\n Texas took its first lead since midway through the first half when Chendall Weaver buried a 3-pointer to put the Longhorns ahead 66-65 with nine minutes left.<\/p>\n Epps hit a 3-pointer two minutes later to pull Mississippi State even at 73-all. Jordan Pope answered with a layup and the Longhorns upped their advantage to 86-79 with 2:17 remaining.<\/p>\n Hubbard hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to two and Brandon Walker tipped in a Hubbard miss with 17 seconds left to tie it at 86. Pope missed a 3 with two seconds to go to force OT.<\/p>\n Texas: At No. 19 Tennessee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Mississippi State: Hosts Oklahoma on Wednesday.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Josh Hubbard scored 10 of his career-high-tying 38 points in overtime and Mississippi State beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,1151,231,772,1544,2398],"class_list":{"0":"post-515168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-texas-longhorns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115834458220463647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}