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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. Vapormax 2019 Cheap . 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"It is still taking a little time to sink in what Ive achieved this week as was the case when I won the FedEx Cup but then it just kept getting better and better as the days went on and I am sure this will be the same," he said. RENTON, Wash. -- Every so often, John Schneider will see whats happening with other franchises around the NFL and his personal appreciation for whats taken place during his tenure as general manager in Seattle is reinforced.Schneider knows whats happened here over the past six seasons is unique. Its why he agreed to a contract extension last week that will keep him employed by the Seahawks through the 2021 season.It always fluctuates and changes with different ownership groups, but this is clearly a top-3, top-5 team in terms of ownership in the league and obviously were biased so we would say its (No.) 1, Schneider said Thursday. Like I said, having a strong owner and a strong president is extremely important.Schneider spoke with reporters as the Seahawks were preparing to begin training camp Saturday. The team announced last Sunday that Schneider had agreed to an extension and two days later announced a three-year extension for coach Pete Carroll, keeping the tandem in charge of Seattles football operations at least through 2019.They knew little of each other when Carroll and Schneider were hired in January 2010. Since then, the pair has led the Seahawks to success never before seen in franchise history.I think the times you appreciate it are the times that are tough and you have to make tough decisions, Schneider said. Coach Carroll, he doesnt have to have this philosophy. Hes Pete Carroll, right? And Im John Schneider. This guy won national championships and was basically running Los Angeles for a couple years. He could have come into this thing like guns blazing and its my way or the highway. Thats not his philosophical approach at all.Schneider arrived in Seattle a relative unknown and unproven as a general manger. What hes created now entering his seventh season in charge is a football operations department that rivals any in the NFL, with a team coming off four straight playoff appearances and expectations entering this seasoon of being a contender in the NFC.ddddddddddddSchneider will be 50 years old when his contract finally expires after the 2021 season.When youre asking the shelf-life of it, I think as long as youre challenging yourself and you never feel like you have all the answers, then I think the shelf-life is endless, Schneider said. If you start thinking you have all the answers and youve got everything figured out ... thats when youre kind of screwed.Contrary to rumblings that have followed Schneider throughout his tenure with Seattle, he said there is no clause in his extension that would allow the Wisconsin native to return to his home state and take over in Green Bay if the opportunity presents itself. Hes in Seattle for the long haul, and thats fine by him.Theres been lots of whispers about a lot of things, Schneider said. Its a small league and Im from a small home town.Last season, Schneider and the Seahawks were caught by surprise when Kam Chancellor held out from training camp because he was unhappy with his contract before reporting after missing the first two games of the season. Defensive end Michael Bennett has also expressed displeasure with his current contract but Schneider expects Bennett to report Friday.I do expect him. I havent heard otherwise, he said.Schneider said running back Thomas Rawls and tight end Jimmy Graham are not expected to practice when the Seahawks take the field for the first time Saturday. The team is still considering whether to place the two on the physically unable to perform list for the start of camp as they recover from injuries suffered late last season.Schneider reiterated that both are expected to be ready for the opener on Sept. 11 against Miami.Were going to be very, very careful with those guys, he said.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '