AUSTIN, Texas — Rodney Purvis scored 18 points and led a second half rally as Connecticut beat Texas 71-66 Tuesday night, snapping the Longhorns’ six-game winning streak.
Shonn Miller and Daniel Hamilton added 13 points apiece for UConn (9-3), which has won four straight.
Freshman Tevin Mack led Texas (8-4) with a season-best 20 points, and Isaiah Taylor scored 19.
Texas led 53-52 after Mack made his fifth 3-pointer of the game with 8:18 remaining. Then Purvis asserted himself with two driving shots, an assist on a basket by Jalen Adams, and a 3-pointer that gave UConn a 61-55 lead with 4:27 left.
After Taylor missed the front end of a one-and-one free-throw opportunity with 3:49 remaining, Purvis made another basket.
Six straight points by Taylor pulled Texas within two, 65-63, with 33 seconds left, but UConn made six throws in the final 27 seconds, four by former Longhorn Sterling Gibbs.
