Following their 64-45 loss to South Carolina in the SEC Championship game, the Longhorns fell from the top spot in the AP Poll to No. 5. With less than a week until Selection Sunday, the Longhorns are now out of the one-seed range in the AP Poll.

While South Carolina reasserted itself as the gold standard in the SEC on Sunday, Texas was forced to settle for silver in its conference debut.

When you have to play them here two hours from campus, it’s a distinct advantage,” Schaefer said of playing South Carolina in Greenville.