Texas Leads Chicago State 56-30 at Halftime at the Moody Center in the Season Opener
No. 7 Texas opened its season the way a 39.5-point favorite is supposed to: a 56-30 halftime lead over Chicago State at the Moody Center, in a building where the Longhorns beat the same opponent 105-58 two seasons ago.
AUSTIN - The season is 20 minutes old, and it looks the way it was supposed to look. No. 7 Texas led Chicago State 56-30 at halftime of its season opener at the Moody Center on Monday night, according to Sportradar's live match listing read this run - a 26-point margin in a game the Longhorns entered favored by 39.5 points, per the Horns247 live game thread.
The matchup came with a recent memory attached. Texas leads the all-time series 2-0, and the last meeting, on November 12, 2024 in Austin, ended 105-58 for the Longhorns, Horns247 noted. The half's final basket was a Chicago State one - an Andre Stanton layup off a Mike Price assist with one second left, Sportradar's play-by-play recorded - which only trimmed the margin to 26.
The questions this Texas team carried into the night were never really about Chicago State. After an exhibition loss at St. John's, the opener was framed by ball security and rebounding - the turnovers and missed box-outs that cost Texas in the exhibition, as the Mogaz preview read this run put it. A 56-30 half is the comfortable part of the answer; the second half is about habits, not suspense.
No final is claimed here - the game was at halftime at this file's last read. The result files on the next production cycle, and with it the first full read on Sean Miller's second-season team.
