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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Connor Lammert and Eric Davis made 3-point shots late in overtime, enabling Texas to defeat UT Arlington 80-73 Tuesday night.

Lammert made his trey, assisted by Isaiah Taylor, with 1:12 remaining. Lammert then provided the assist for Davis' 3-pointer with 31 seconds left.

Taylor led Texas with 21 points, including five free throws in overtime. Javan Felix scored 18 for Texas.

Kevin Hervey led UTA with 15 points and 15 rebounds, his fourth consecutive double-double. Drew Charles added 12 points.

Texas (3-3) missed two shots in the final 46 seconds of regulation, an open 3-pointer by Lammert and a driving attempt by Taylor.

In between those two efforts, UT-Arlington (5-2) missed one, a layup by Erick Neal.

UT Arlington put together two long runs in the first half, 9-0 and 11-0, to take a 31-27 lead at the break. The Mavericks led by 10 after their second scoring streak.

Texas went scoreless for more than four minutes during the first Mavericks push. The Longhorns outdid themselves during the second UTA run, failing to score for more than seven minutes.

The common denominator during both scoreless stretches was a sagging, aggressive UT Arlington defense that forced Texas to shoot from the perimeter. Fourteen of the Longhorns' 26 shots in the first half were 3-pointers. They converted just four.

Hervey has scored in double-figures in all seven games this season, including a career-best 27 points in a win at Rice on Sunday. The Mavericks, picked to finish eighth in the 11-team Sun Belt Conference by the league's coaches, won games at Ohio State and Memphis in a span of four days.

Longhorn guard Kendal Yancy was cleared to play Tuesday after missing three straight games with a concussion. Yancy, a junior reserve, played in the second half and made a 3-point basket. The Longhorns are 11-0 in all-time against Texas-Arlington.

UTA hosts North Texas on Thursday at College Park Center. Tickets are available at UTATickets.com.

UT Arlington Quotes
Head Coach Scott Cross
Opening Statement: "Our guys played extremely hard. I am proud of them and how hard they played tonight. It was a very good basketball game. We did a great job on the boards. I didn't even realize that we out-rebounded them by 13. That's a credit to our guys. This guy right here, Kevin Hervey, he just has an unbelievable nose for basketball. Our guys really, really fought. In the second half, we didn't play quite together enough as a basketball team. I think that may have hurt us. We are really good when we move the basketball. In the first half, there were times that we moved that play around, spun it, move around, and had some wide open looks. We did a great job executing our offense, but we got stagnated a little bit. Obviously, the credit goes to [the Longhorns]. Coach [Shaka] Smart does a great job. He changed up the defenses. He went from his 2-2-1 back to his 2-3. It got us stagnated a little bit, but they did some great things. Obviously, the two big three's there in overtime were back breakers for us."

On Hervey's 3-pointer that was ruled 2 points in the first half: "[The officials] said because they called it a 2, they could not go back and look at it. If they would have called it a 3, I guess they could. I really don't understand. It's a simple thing to go back and review the play, but I guess the way the rules are written they have to follow the rules. It's unfortunate for our guys and the way the cookie crumbles sometimes."

On Isaiah Taylor: "He is tough to guard. He gets low. He gets his shoulder in our guy's hip. He drives the ball extremely well. They did a great job attacking us and getting the ball in the paint. We had some possessions where we had them in the last five or six seconds of the shot clock, and then they just drove us in there and drew the foul. It was frustrating, but it is a credit to them. They are basketball players who made plays, so the credit has to go to them."

On the closing final minutes of play: "It confirms that we do have a good basketball team. It was not a fluke in Memphis and Ohio State. This is a legit team. It is tough to play on the road, especially against a team that has great size, great talent. Our guys did a great job going toe-to-toe with them. I am proud of them for that, and I think if we can figure out how to consistently play together as a basketball team, then we could have something really special."

Sophomore Forward Kevin Hervey
On the takeaway from tonight: "They are an extraordinary team. It was a crazy atmosphere, and we played as hard as we could and we fought as hard as we could. But they came out the better team. Overall, I respect their team. They have a great coach, but they just got us tonight."

On the last five games for UTA: We have been taking it one by one, not focusing on the last win or the last loss, but just who we play next. Tonight we came into the game confident we would win the game and we played as hard as we could, and we came up short.

On Connor Lammert playing defense against you: "He is a really good defender. He knew where I wanted to go, and beat me to my spots. When I caught the ball, he knew exactly where I was going to throw it and where I wanted it to go offensively. He had to watch a lot of film or something, because he played some really good defense."