KNOXVILLE - Jordan Horston scored 28 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, both career highs, Tamari Key had a triple-double and the 16th-ranked Tennessee women's basketball shot 6-for-8 from the foul line in overtime to defeat No. 12 Texas 76-70 on Sunday.
Key scored 10 points, grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds and matched her career high with 10 blocked shots for her second career triple-double and the fifth in program history. Alexus Dye and Jordan Walker added 13 points apiece for the Lady Volunteers (4-0), who posted their second straight win over a ranked opponent, having beaten No. 23 South Florida 52-49 last Monday.
Mississippi State transfer Aliyah Matharu scored a career-high 27 points to lead the Longhorns (3-1) - who beat Stanford a week earlier, when the Cardinal were ranked third - while Joanne Allen-Taylor added 11 points and Rori Harmon had 10.
Matharu notched 13 in the third quarter, when the Longhorns outscored Tennessee 21-10 to take a 49-39 lead. But the Lady Vols outpaced Texas 20-10 in the fourth, holding the visitors scoreless for 6 1/2-minutes.
Tennessee had a 10-0 run to pull with 57-56 before Harmon scored with 40.9 seconds left. After fellow freshman Sara Puckett hit the first of two free throws but missed the second, a long review gave the Lady Vols the ball back, and Dye scored on a putback basket to tie it at 59 with 20.2 on the clock. Both teams had a final shot in regulation but didn't come close.
Tennessee never trailed in overtime, but Texas missed its first four free throws before hitting a pair with two seconds left.
The Lady Vols had a 56-41 rebounding advantage but also committed 24 turnovers, 10 more than Texas.