Texas Overpowers Grambling State 93-62 Behind Matas Vokietaitis's 26 Points at the Moody Center
The Lithuanian center scored 26 points with nine rebounds on Monday night as Texas ran its opening home stand to 3-0 — the last of the tune-ups before Sunday's Baylor test in San Antonio.
AUSTIN — Texas closed its opening home stand the way it started it: in control. The Longhorns beat Grambling State 93-62 at the Moody Center on Monday night, a third consecutive home victory to open the 2026-27 season, behind a dominant night from center Matas Vokietaitis.
Vokietaitis finished with 26 points and nine rebounds — two shy of matching his career highs in both categories — on 8-of-12 shooting from the floor and 10-of-12 at the free-throw line. Grambling's 7-foot-2 Isaiah Miranda, who had scored 29 points in the Tigers' opener, picked up three fouls in the first 3:03 trying to guard him and finished with eight points on 3-of-13 shooting. “He's too big, too strong, too skilled,” Grambling coach Patrick Crarey II said of Vokietaitis, calling him “unguardable.”
The bench supplied the spark in a sluggish first stretch: freshman Joe Sterling made his first three 3-pointers and his first four shots overall, and Sterling, Elyjah Freeman and Marcus Spears Jr. joined Vokietaitis as double-digit scorers. David Punch added three steals and two blocks, Bo Ogden hit a pair of triples, and Isaiah Johnson led the team with four assists. Texas finished 27-of-42 at the free-throw line as a team — the one loose thread in a runaway.
It is only three games, all against overmatched visitors, in Sean Miller's second season in Austin. The measuring stick arrives Sunday, when Texas faces Baylor in San Antonio — the game this station previewed at SQ-20261110-032.
