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The Rice Owls were given a big lesson in what teams in the Big 12 already know: Texas' Dexter Pittman is a big man and a force to be reckoned with under the basket.
Pittman scored 21 points, leading No. 3 Texas to a 77-59 win Sunday as the Longhorns held off a second-half Rice rally before pulling away in the final minutes.
"He's a big dude," Rice forward Suleiman Braimoh said of the 6-foot-10, 290 pound Pittman. "We tried to make it hard for him to get to the basket."
There wasn't much Rice could do. Pittman shot 7 of 8 from the field, using his beefy frame to set up under the basket and fight off double teams for 2-footers.
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