East Texas A&M could have spent the entire week celebrating what happened Monday night in Norman. The Lions had just stunned Oklahoma 68–64, producing one of the biggest upsets of the opening week of college basketball and immediately attracting national attention.
Instead, they went back on the road and won again.
East Texas A&M defeated Rice 72–71 Thursday night at Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston, improving to 2–0 and giving the Southland Conference program another victory over an opponent from a more prominent conference…