Basketball

Tournament hopes just got much brighter in the city of Austin. After rallying to an 87-79 overtime win over No. 20 West Virginia, Texas’ odds to qualify for March Madness rose to 98 percent, according to ESPN’s Basketball Power Index (BPI). Here are observations and takeaways from the Longhorns’ potential season-changing victory over the Mountaineers:

Saturday’s regular-season finale is the end of the line for the Longhorns.

Andrew Jones was released from the hospital over the weekend. Days later, he was in the gym putting up shots. 

The Brooklyn Nets beat the Chicago Bulls, 104-87, on Monday night, but all anyone wanted to talk about was Nets center and former Longhorn Jarrett Allen’s ferocious slam dunk.