Competition for playing time and a meaningful spot in the Texas rotation will be up for grabs on Thursday when the 23rd-ranked Longhorns host Eastern Washington at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Tex.The contest is the second game of the regional round of the Legends Classic.Texas first two games have featured a balanced attack as six Longhorns are averaging double figures in scoring. During Mondays win over Louisiana-Monroe, seven Texas players recorded at least seven points. No Longhorns player saw more than 24 minutes of action against Louisiana-Monroe and nine Texas players were on the court for at least 17 minutes in the easy 80-59 victory.On this team we do have some interchangeable parts, Texas coach Shaka Smart said after the win Monday night. We have some length and athleticism. There are a variety of guys who are playing better on the break. Were running the floor and pushing the ball. Our guys made pretty good decisions tonight.After missing the season opener because of a suspension for a violation of team rules in the offseason, Texas sophomore guard/forward Tevin Mack and sophomore guard Kerwin Roach Jr. had solid performances against Louisiana-Monroe.Mack posted a team-high 14 points (including 4 for 6 on his 3-point shots) in 23 minutes, while Roach added 11 points, four rebounds and two assists without a turnover in 22 minutes for Texas (2-0).Freshman guard Andrew Jones reached double figures in scoring (12 points) for the second straight game to start his collegiate career.Coach Smart is still teaching me as I go and Im emerging as a point guard, Jones said. And this game is only a step for me and learning how to run this team at a young age and still be able to lead and get my players in the position to score.Senior guard Kendal Yancy leads the team in scoring at 15.5 points per game and steals (five) and is tied for the team lead in minutes (30.0 mpg) through the first two contests. He has converted 52.6 percent (10 of 19) from the floor and 81.8 percent (9 of 11) from the free throw line.Texas freshman forward Jarrett Allen was named to the John R. Wooden Award watch list on Tuesday. He previously was named to the watch lists for the Naismith Trophy Mens 50 preseason and for the 2017 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award.Through his first two collegiate contests, Allen is tied for the team lead in rebounding (7.5 rpg) and ranks third on the team in scoring (12.0 ppg) while hitting 11 of 16 field goals (.688) and adding four blocked shots in 30 minutes per game.Eastern Washington (1-1) heads to Austin off an 86-72 loss at Northwestern on Monday. The Eagles were within six points on four occasions in the defeat, two of those instances midway through the second half, but then went four minutes without a field goal.Junior forward Bogdan Bliznyuk scored 25 points for Eastern Washington in the loss while senior forward Jacob Wiley finished with 19 before fouling out, scoring 14 of his points in the second half.There are a lot of pieces there for us, but Northwesterns balance was too much to overcome, Eastern Washington coach Jim Hayford said after Mondays loss. We needed to either find a way to hold them to 10 less points, or we needed to find some more scoring to keep up with them. Right now we are trying to find strengths, roles and cohesion, and we are playing very quality opponents to help figure that out.The Eagles opened the season with a 70-47 victory over Linfield on Nov. 11. They were picked to finish fifth in the Big Sky Conferences preseason poll.Were fighting up a weight class or two this week but its only going to make us better, Hayford said. We need to shake off the travel and figure out how were going to play Texas. Every coach at this time of year is looking at what his team has, how its playing and what they need to do to improve.Thursdays contest marks the first meeting between the Longhorns and Eastern Washington.Eight teams from across the nation are competing in the 10th annual Legends Classic. 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But for these two teams at The Oval, the most significant change in the intervening three months has been on the pitch. Surrey have surged after a dreadful start to the County Championship season, and Lancashires run of three wins in their opening five games, including an evisceration of Surrey, has given way to a winless run of eight matches.Here Lancashire were gazumped by two left-armers who were absent in May. Back then, Mark Footitt was injured and Sam Curran had his pesky A-levels to overcome.Footitt was Surreys marquee winter signing, lured from Derbyshire for his left-arm brawn in return for Division One cricket, on a four-year contract that was sizeable indeed for a 30-year-old with a history of injuries. For much of this season that investment has seemed hard to justify: Footitts injury problems gave way to a return so indecisive that he was left out of the side.Yet as he bounded in from the Pavilion End, the gifts that had enticed Surrey, and led to Footitts selection for Englands tour to South Africa, were undeniable. In a 10-over spell in the early evening, Footitts four wickets prized open the game. His alliance of pace, hostility and awkward bounce made him relentless.The roar he let off after taking his maiden five-for for Surrey was deserved indeed: this was a triumph of will and speed, and refusing to kowtow to a pitch that, in his estimation, has got slower and lower as the match has progressed. On such occasions a fast bowlers short ball is an essential weapon but, while Footitt deployed his sagaciously to harry the batsmen, his wickets were all vindication for pitching the ball up.Earlier in the day, The Oval had been left bewitched by another Surrey left-armer, but for his batting. Sam Curran has already wooed sage judges with his left-arm pace bowling, yet at Surrey they reckon his batting will be even better.Three consecutive fours off Kyle Jarvis gave notice of why. There was an impudent upper-cut over the slips to reach his half-century; a perfectly timed leg glance; and then a drive thrashed imperiously through the cover.He was even more ruthless against the spin of Arron Lilley, three times smearing huge sixes over midwicket that seemed to mock Curranns own slight frame.dddddddddddd The third took him to within four of a maiden first-class century but, the man briefly reverting back to being a boy, he chipped the ball tamely back to Lilley.For a few seconds Curran resolutely refused to move, disbelieving of his fate. His slow walk from the crease gave off the air of a dejected child being dragged away from their favourite TV programme - or from Pokemon Go, perhaps - and remained sheltered in his helmet as he walked up the stairs.As he returned to a warm, sympathetic applause - some, so enraptured by this radiant talent, even stood up in acclaim - no one doubted there would be many times in his professional cricket career when Curran traverses through the 90s unscathed. This was an innings defined by the 96 delightful runs he scored, not the four he failed to.Had it not been for Luke Procter, Surrey might even have won with a day to spare. Procter is a distinctly unglamorous cricketer: his medium-pacers are delivered off the wrong foot; he faces up to bat with an unusually wide stance, hunching so low that he can look like he is attempting to burrow into the ground. But he is also a highly effective one, as he has proved all year in Division One. This 76, a product not just of his obduracy but also some fine driving - one push off Footitt rattled past mid-off, so exquisite was the timing - took his Championship tally in 2016 to 810 runs at 40.55 apiece.That represents a commendable effort, especially for a batsmen some had thought would struggled with the step up to Division One. But here, as on too many occasions in recent weeks, Procter received too little support. Alviro Petersen batted jauntily for 56 but, just as he was lashing the ball regally through the covers, perished playing the same shot off Footitt.The upshot is that, sometime early tomorrow, Surrey should secure their fourth victory in seven matches, effectively ensuring they will not be relegated despite four losses and no victories in their opening seven games. The push has come too late to entertain title hopes, but Surrey now have legitimate hopes of finishing in the top three - and with scope to build on that achievement, especially with Sam Curran now unburdened by school commitments.For 2015s other promoted side, a long trip home tomorrow, after an eighth consecutive Championship match without victory, now looms, and the creeping notion that Lancashires cherished Division One status might yet be imperilled. ' ' '