PREVIEW: #Texas faces #11 seed Northern Iowa on Fri at approx. 8:50 pm CT on TBS in NCAA 1st Round. #HookEm https://t.co/49rYAfk5QG
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Texas vs Northern Iowa March Madness Spread Analysis
Written by Derrick Harper on March 17, 2016
The Northern Iowa Panthers will take on the Texas Longhorns at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City Oklahoma on Friday. The 6th ranked Longhorns and 11th ranked Panthers will battle it out to see who plays the winner of Texas A+M and Wisconsin-Green Bay March Madness betting bout in the second round of the West region. The 11th ranked Panthers are 22-12. After finishing fifth in the Missouri Valley Conference regular season, the Panthers of Northern Iowa won the conference tournament. Northern Iowa beat Evansville in the conference tournament title game. For Texas, they are 20-12 on the season. The Longhorns finished fourth in the Big 12, but lost in the first round of the conference tournament to Baylor.