AUSTIN, Texas -- Three wins in seven days was just about the perfect start to the season for No. 23 Texas new starting lineup.The rest of the schedule promises to be much more challenging. And it starts right away, far away from the comforts of home.Tevin Mack scored 19 points and Texas rolled to an easy 85-52 victory over Eastern Washington on Thursday night as the Longhorns started smoothing out the rough edges in their 3-0 start.Now the question is, `Can we go on the road? coach Shaka Smart asked. The competition level will go up. We will see better athletes. We will see better size. We will see better teams. How will we answer that?They will know next week when they travel to Brooklyn, New York for the Legends Classic, where their first opponent will be Northwestern.Its going to be fun, Texas guard Kendal Yancy said, especially because were winning.Thats a far different feeling than last season, when Texas started 2/3 after early road trips to China and the Bahamas.Texas had little trouble with Eastern Washington as five Longhorns scored in double figures. Freshman Andrew Jones scored 17 points on 6-of-10 shooting. He had a big first half, making all four of his shots for 12 points in just 9 minutes on the court.Yancy scored 10 points, opening the game with consecutive 3-pointers, and Texas built a 39-24 lead at halftime. Jarrett Allen, Texas 6-foot-11 freshman forward, had four assists in the half by kicking passes out to wide open shooters for 3-pointers.Texas opened the second half with a burst from Eric Davis Jr., who made two 3-pointers in 10-4 run that pushed the lead to 54-28. Jones first basket of the second half, a breakaway dunk, put the Longhorns up by 27 with 11 minutes to play.Bogdan Bliznyuk scored 22 points for Eastern Washington (1-2).Were a little better than we played tonight, but they made us look a lot worse than we are, Eastern Washington coach Jim Hayford said. We dont see athletes like that in the Big Sky (Conference).THE BIG PICTUREEastern Washington: The Eagles were overmatched from the start against their first Big 12 opponent in six seasons. Eastern Washington is 1-24 all-time against ranked opponents.Texas: The Longhorns played their most fluid game with unselfish passes, defensive hustle and an ability to spread the points around the court. Kerwin Roach Jr., who missed the first game because of a suspension, got in his best work at point guard with four assists.POLL IMPLICATIONSTexas still needs win against major conference competition if they hope to impress voters. The next two games against Northwestern and either Notre Dame or Colorado at the Legends Classic, would be a start.MACK ATTACKMack was suspended for the first game for an offseason rules violation but has lead the team in scoring in each of the two games hes played, despite not starting either one. He scored 14 points in 23 minutes against Louisiana Monroe, and played just 21 minutes against Eastern Washington. He has a team-high eight 3-pointers on 14 attempts.INSIDE THE BOX SCORETexas made a season-high 11 3-pointers and Eastern Washington was just 3 of 21 from long range and made just one in the second half. Two of Allens early assists led to Texas 3-pointers. I thought Jarrett really set a tone early in the game by making some terrific passes, Smart said.The Longhorns forced a season-high 16 turnovers.UP NEXT:Eastern Washington hosts Bryant on Monday.Texas faces Northwestern on Monday in Brooklyn, New York. Cheap NFL Jerseys Outlet . 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Its very rare that youre going to take over a program thats got the cupboard loaded and youre ready to just come in and win from Day One. Were in a building process right now.Auburns Bruce Pearl and South Carolinas Frank Martin can attest to the notion that it takes time to build a winner in this league nowadays.Pearl reached the NCAA Tournament each of his six seasons at Tennessee, but hes 26-40 in two years at Auburn. Martin, who earned NCAA bids each of his last three years at Kansas State, hasnt reached the NCAA Tournament in five years at South Carolina.For all the so-called very intelligent experts who think this league stinks, there are a lot of coaches in this league whove been in Final Fours, Elite Eights and so forth that get to this league and they dont finish in the upper half of the league, Martin said. This leagues very good. This leagues very unforgiving.All those coaches had tough assignments.Howland, who made three straight Final Fours at UCLA from 2006-08, inherited a Mississippi State program that hasnt earned an NCAA bid since 2009. Barnes was Tennessees third coach in as many seasons. Alabama has reached the NCAA Tournament once in the last 10 seasons.I cant speak for the other coaches, but I know based on what we inherited, we were just trying to survive, said Johnson, who went 18-15 in his debut season. I was hoping wed win five games. I didnt think we would win 18.White had to replacee the most successful coach in Florida history while taking over a program that was coming off a losing season.ddddddddddddOur culture over the last couple of years isnt where it obviously was when Coach Donovan was winning a million games and going to Final Fours and winning championships, White said. Were trying to get back to that culture -- or even three-quarters of that culture, baby steps -- to get back to some of the personalities of some of the best teams he ever had.That doesnt necessarily mean all these coaches are adjusting expectations or declaring themselves years away.Barnes set the NCAA Tournament as a goal last season and is doing the same this year, even though his team was picked to finish 13th out of 14 teams in the SEC preseason media poll that came out Wednesday.I dont think you do this with the idea that theres a timetable, Barnes said. I think every day youve got to be ready to do it. Youve got to get your guys to understand. They all think theyre good enough anyway. Then youve got to make sure they understand what it takes for us to win as a team.But it could take time for each of these coaches.Barnes said he could have four or five freshmen on the floor at once this season, as his roster includes nine newcomers (seven true freshmen, one redshirt freshman and a graduate transfer). Howland said he could end up starting two or three freshmen.Were going to have a lot of adversity because were going to have ups and downs, Howland said. Weve got to try to get our guys to learn from their mistakes and continue to improve and get better, because were all going to make mistakes.These coaches track records suggest that improvement eventually will come.Having those guys in the league is good for us top to bottom, Martin said. I know Ricks going to build Tennessee into what hes done everywhere hes been before. Bruce is going to do what he does at Auburn. Hes proven that he wins everywhere hes been. Ben won big at Pitt, won big at UCLA. 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