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Miller: "They beat us in the second half."

Miller: "I'll be shocked when I watched those first four minutes of the second half if I see a Texas team flying around... We were not that team."

After the first four minutes of the second half, Miller liked the effort. What Texas didn't do, however, was get the stops it needed to turn the tide.

How do you come to a packed house playing your rival and not have effort?

Miller said there have been times this season where the bench has played well, but tonight wasn't one of those nights.

This is the part I love about Miller. He’s not afraid to call himself out. I give him a pass because he’s not making Heide give up four point plays that completely change the game or scoring points for the other team, but he did sign him.

Miller: "We're looking for high performance. That's what it takes in the SEC. Our performance wasn't at that level today."

Miller, again, pointing out that it was too easy for A&M to get a few buckets in the second half. Texas wasn't able to replicate that eight-point run on the other end of the floor.

Miller said the team's miscues tonight are on him more so than any of the other games this season.

Miller said a decent amount of Rashaun Agee's 17 points came either on coverage breakdowns defensively or Agee getting second-chance points.

A&M has a brand new coach too and they have one loss.

Miller: "We had a lot of things that we dealt with, especially in the second half, that aren't characteristic of our recent play. I thought we regressed a little bit."

Effort again? It’s the Aggies that has effort built in.

we just won’t ever be a basketball school. sweet 16 should be celbrated

Miller on the fouls committed on 3-point shooters: "I thought one time we almost did it on purpose. You just can't tackle the 3-point shooter."

Miller said it's on him that Texas gave the Aggies "four point-blank layups" in the second half. He just felt the defense didn't execute and didn't play with enough effort when A&M was having success finding open cutters.

Miller isn't happy with the fact that Texas only had three offensive rebounds in the second half.

Miller liked how Texas handled A&M's press with only eight turnovers. But he felt the Longhorns wore down.

A lack of bench production shouldn't prevent Texas from winning, Miller said. But he felt A&M's depth wore Texas down in the second half.

A&M dominated Texas in bench scoring, 20-6.

Miller felt Texas lost the game in the first four minutes of the second half. "We didn't come out ready to attack after halftime," he said.

The lesson Miller wants the team to learn from this is that they didn't understand the stakes based on the lack of juice coming out of halftime.

Miller said A&M "outclassed" Texas today and was "the better team in every way."

Sean Miller is next.

Pope said A&M deserves credit for the win, but he felt the Longhorns' wounds were, for the most part, self-inflicted. "We did it to ourselves," he said.