Texas freshman throws down college basketball's dunk of the year

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Sam Laird
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Texas freshman throws down college basketball's dunk of the year
A name to remember. Credit: Chris Covatta/Getty Images

Please allow Kerwin Roach to introduce himself.

The Texas freshman will be on the minds of many more college basketball fans after an astounding dunk he threw down Tuesday night.

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Watch below as Roach, who stands 6-4, absolutely posterizes Texas-Arlington's Jorge Bilbao.

Good Lord, man, that's just not nice. Now here's another angle.

Congratulations to the UT-A player that just made it onto the Kerwin Roach poster. @TexasMBB pic.twitter.com/ifqVsMGzHx— Sports Night (@Sports_NightTX) December 2, 2015

Mercy! Bilbao should have known better, though -- back in October, this workout clip of Roach soaring to face-level with the rim made a stir in college hoops circles.

Them boys up to something they just not just bluffingpic.twitter.com/SRYjH9Ca9x— K2 (@KLR_doce) September 30, 2015

The lesson, college basketball defenders, is simple: Don't jump with Kerwin Roach unless you want to be on the wrong end of a viral highlight clip.

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