ooting accuracy at 27.5 percent. But the Longhorns hit 9 of 25 against Long Beach, a pretty decent 36-percent mark.UP NEXTLong Beach faces Oregon State on Friday i

AUSTIN, Texas -- After Eric Davis Jr. finally made some shots and emerged from a season-long slump, teammate Tevin Mack turned to him and said, Welcome back, E.D.Back indeed, at least temporarily. Davis scored 16 points to help Texas erase a 12-point deficit and defeat Long Beach State 71-65 on Saturday.Mack scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half. Kendal Yancy added 11 points and some critical hustle.Davis, a sophomore, hit 3 of 7 3-pointers, a marked improvement after a 6-for-41 (14.6 percent) start this season. Last season he converted 38 percent of his 3-pointers.While he tried to work through his ordeal, Davis teammates provided encouragement.They said keep shooting the ball, Davis said. I stay confident. Thats who I am.Coach Shaka Smart is not so sure of that.Absolutely not, Smart said. Youd have to be a machine to not be affected by having a string of games when things dont go your way. Hes 19 years. Nobody wants to admit those sorts of things.Evan Payne led Long Beach with a season-best 26 points,Payne, a junior, made a career-best eight 3-point baskets. His 3-pointer early in the second half gave Long Beach (2-10) a 12-point lead.But Texas chipped away, with Mack and Davis combining to score 12 straight Texas points as the Longhorns overtook Long Beach and created separation.Davis made consecutive baskets, one a 3-pointer, to give Texas (5-4) a seven-point lead with less than six minutes remaining. Macks 3-pointer from the corner put Texas ahead by eight with 4:40 to go.Long Beach coach Dan Monson said his perimeter players were supposed to help defend inside against Texas big men, but not by leaving Mack, the Longhorns most reliable shooter this season.If you dont stay with the game plan, they are gonna burn you, Monson said. He sure did.Payne averaged 12 points a game before Saturday. He scored 17 in the first half against Texas, converting 5 of 6 3-point attempts while helping Long Beach to a 34-28 lead at the break.But the 49ers could not sustain the effort.We let them hang around, Monson said. In the second half defensively we got tired and just let them in the paint too much.BIG PICTURELong Beach: Monson has believed in aggressive scheduling since the late 1990s when he was the head coach at Gonzaga, setting the stage for that schools elevation to national prominence under Mark Few. This season the 49ers are 0-6 against teams from Power Five conferences by an average of 23 points. The 49ers also lost to non-Power Five Wichita State by 37. Before beating Pepperdine at home on Wednesday, Long Beach went 0-9 on a road trip during which it traveled 15,125 miles.We played this schedule to get better, Monson said. I think we got better today, but this team needs to reward themselves with some wins.Texas: The Longhorns began the game ranked last in the Big 12 with 42.7 percent field-goal-shooting accuracy. They hit 33.3 percent in the first half against Long Beach and broke loose in the second half to hit 53.8 percent and score 43 points.ADVANTAGE TEXASBefore Saturday, Long Beach State ranked 331st in the nation in 3-point field goal defense, allowing opponents 41 percent accuracy. Texas, meanwhile, ranked 337th in 3-point shooting accuracy at 27.5 percent. But the Longhorns hit 9 of 25 against Long Beach, a pretty decent 36-percent mark.UP NEXTLong Beach faces Oregon State on Friday in Portland, Oregon. This will be the 49ers seventh game against teams from Power Five conferences away from home.Texas faces Arkansas in Houston on Dec. 17 as part of the Lone Star Shootout doubleheader. Texas A&M meets Arizona in the other game. 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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -- The decision to bring Birdatthewire back to Gulfstream Park for Saturdays $250,000 Princess Rooney was pretty much a no-brainer for trainer Dale Romans. After all, shes already shown an affinity for the track; the race is a Win and Youre In for the Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Sprint; the distance of the race was increased from six to seven furlongs, which helps the late-running filly; and she is the only Grade 1 winner in the field.Birdatthewire likely will be favored in the Grade 2 dash for fillies and mares, which shares top billing on Saturdays 13-race Summit of Speed card with the Grade 2 Smile Sprint. Post time for the Summit of Speed program, which offers nine stakes worth $1.13 million, is 12:15 p.m. Eastern.Birdatthewire won a pair of Grade 2 stakes at Gulfstream last year at 3, the Forward Gal at seven furlongs and the Gulfstream Park Oaks at 1-1/16 miles. She came within a neck of being perfect in three local starts when she finished second in the Grade 2 Davona Dale with an eventful trip.Birdatthewire became a Grade 1 winner in her 3-year-old finale last December at Santa Anita, rallying from last to a half-length victory in the seven-furlong La Brea.She ran a big race that day, said Romans. They outsprinted her, she just settled and came running. Hopefully, the same thing will happen on Saturday. Shes shown shes better around one turn - thats another reason to be there.Birdatthewire is one of two Kentucky invaders in the lineup, along with Spelling Again, a Grade 2 winner who exits an unlucky third-place finish in the Grade 3 Winning Colors going six furlongs att Churchill Downs.dddddddddddd Claimed by trainer Brad Cox for $40,000 during the spring of 2015, Spelling Again won the Grade 2 Chilukki going a mile at Churchill Downs in November.The local contingent is led by the Marty Wolfson-trained pair of Cali Star and Kiss to Remember. Cali Star captured the Grade 3 Rampart at a mile here last December, while Kiss to Remember tries the Princess Rooney for a second straight season, having finished a late-running third in this race last summer.Concealedwithakiss, a wire-to-wire winner of her last two starts, and My Miss Venezuela, who led throughout to upset the Sea Lily Stakes here on June 4, figure to assure a lively pace, along with Willow Hills.Key ContendersBirdatthewire, by Summer BirdLast 3 Beyers: 83-94-88She can avenge her setback at the hands of Spelling Again in the Chilukki, where she finished a distant fifth following a slow start.Spelling Again, by Awesome AgainLast 3 Beyers: 82-87-86She wheeled back on short rest to just miss in the Winning Colors after having finished third behind one of the leading members of the division, Cavorting, in the Grade 2 Ruffian at Belmont Park two weeks earlier.Cali Star, by Street CryLast 3 Beyers: 79-90-90Shes been laid off but has trained extremely well since stumbling and losing jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. following her fifth-place finish as the favorite in the Heavenly Prize at Aqueduct on March 5. I thought shed win that race, but she never handled the racetrack that day, said Wolfson. ' ' '