{"id":1163403,"date":"2026-02-22T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163403"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:45:10","slug":"madison-booker-scores-23-points-and-no-4-texas-routs-mississippi-state-92-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/madison-booker-scores-23-points-and-no-4-texas-routs-mississippi-state-92-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Booker scores 23 points and No. 4 Texas routs Mississippi State 92-42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Madison Booker scored 23 points, Jordan Lee added 17 and No. 4 Texas routed Mississippi State 92-42 Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Texas (26-3, 11-3 Southeastern Conference) has won 41 straight home games, the longest such streak in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Both Booker and Lee were accurate from the field. Booker hit 8 of 12, including 3-for-3 from beyond the arc. Lee shot 6 of 10, including a season-best five 3-pointers in eight tries.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns hit 11 of 22 3-pointers, setting a season high for the second straight game. They made 10 of 28 during a 93-62 win at Arkansas on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Aaliyah Crump scored 12 points for Texas and Ashton Judd added 11. Breya Cunningham grabbed 12 rebounds and Rori Harmon had 11 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Favour Nwaedozi scored nine points to lead Mississippi State (18-10, 5-9). The Bulldogs shot 38% and committed a season-high 28 turnovers. <\/p>\n<p>Mississippi State came in averaging 15 turnovers a game. The Bulldogs committed 17 by halftime. Texas turning them into 24 points while taking a 50-18 lead. <\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>Mississippi State: at Texas A&amp;M on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Texas: hosts No. 24 Georgia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/newsletters\">here<\/a>. AP women\u2019s college basketball: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-college-basketball\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/madison-booker-scores-23-points-214510576.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/madison-booker-scores-23-points-214510576.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Madison Booker scored 23 points, Jordan Lee added 17 and No. 4 Texas routed Mississippi State 92-42 Sunday. Texas (26-3, 11-3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}