Slater Martin is the only Longhorn men's basketball player to have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 202021, the Longhorns won their first Big 12 tournament title, following a strong showing in a regular season marred by COVID-19 cancellations (including the Longhorns' own semifinal against Kansas). Ten of Rick Barnes' teams, five of Tom Penders' teams, two of Abe Lemons' teams, and two of Harold Bradley's teams finished the season ranked. This slidecoupled with his football teams' similar decline in performanceresulted in the popular Stewart's controversial dismissal following the 192627 season. Richardson then returned to the court, eliciting a resounding chorus of boos from the crowd, and Arkansas outscored Texas 1710 in the overtime period to claim the win. Later that year, the Seminoles would make a run for Omaha, beating Texas A&M, Cal State Fullerton and Stanford twice to advance to the finals. 3 Oklahoma late for 76-63 win", "Watch: Northern Iowa beats Texas on buzzer beater", "Texas scoring leader Mack transfers to Alabama", "Sources: Rodney Terry agrees to 5-year deal to be Texas' coach", "Handbook of Texas Online: Gregory, Thomas Watt", "Frank C. Erwin, Jr., Special Events Center", "Dell Medical School Construction Plans Unveiled", "With Frank Erwin Center's days limited, many questions remain about venue's future", "Texas Basketball and Rowing Training Facility", "NCAA gets it right by changing silly tournament wording", "In Tournament of Upsets, V.C.U. Six of the Longhorns' seven victories in conference play came by five points or fewer, while six of the nine conference losses came by 10 points or more. [41] Bellmont returned to his administrative responsibilities for good following the 1922 season, finishing his basketball coaching career with a 589 overall record; his .866 winning percentage remains the highest of any coach in program history.[10]. Texas A&M plays Mississippi State (road), Ole Miss (road) and Alabama (home) to close the regular season. TEXAS [71] The Longhorns entered the final weekend of the conference season needing only one win in two games against the second-place Razorbacks. [114] Dodds ultimately chose 37-year-old Bob Weltlich, a former assistant coach under Bob Knight at Army and Indiana who came with Knight's recommendation, from the University of Mississippi to serve as the next Texas men's basketball head coach. 1 -- Bracket 1 Winner vs. Built for a total cost of $34 million, the building is named for former UT alumnus and Board of Regents member Frank Erwin. 1988 Richard Quick | Feature
Texas won its final game in Maui against Notre Dame before facing Oklahoma in Austin. 6 seed in the NCAA tournament and defeated Western Kentucky by a score of 9177 to advance to a second-round contest against third-seeded Michigan, national runner-up the preceding two years. Two weeks and five losses later, the Longhorns would drop from the polls altogether. With the formation of the Big 12 Conference in 1996, the Oklahoma Sooners became the Longhorns' main rival in basketball. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament, and advanced to the Elite Eight (Texas fell to LSU in overtime), marking the fourth time in five years that Texas had advanced to at least the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. Texas was not ranked in the preseason polls, but the potential for significant improvement was evident. The Longhorns finished the SWC Tournament with a 257 overall record, a 122 conference record and outright SWC championship, and a No. Stewart's dismissal, producing a 5130 combined record during his four-year stint as head coach. During the 2009 recruiting cycle, Texas acquired top-tier prospects Avery Bradley and Jordan Hamilton. 3 Since 197980 season. Martin and Madsen led Texas to a 4339 lead with under four minutes remainingafter Texas had trailed by seven points midway through the second halfbut NYU tied the game in the final minute and scored the final basket on a long shot with six seconds remaining to win the quarterfinals game, 4543. 12 in the post-Tournament Coaches Poll, matching the 196263 team for the highest end-of-season poll ranking in program history. Men's Swimming and Diving, 1999-2000 (1)
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The 2003 Longhorn basketball team matched the school record for most basketball victories in a season with their 267 mark and advanced to the NCAA tournament Final Four round for the first time in 56 years, and for the third time in school history. Following the 34-point loss to the Horned Frogs, Weltlich savaged his players in public comments, calling them "as phony as the day is long. Venues. Teams. 1969 Darrell Royal* | Feature
[128] The 198485 Longhorn team would more than double the win total of the previous year's team, posting 1513 overall and 79 conference records. 3 Minimum 200 attempts. [247], Twenty Texas basketball players have received All-America honors on 26 occasions; six have been recognized as All-Americans in two different seasons. Baseball (6)
Teams 3rd Grade Boys (16 teams) 3rd Grade Girls (6 teams) 4th Grade Boys (22 teams) 4th Grade Girls (12 teams) 5th Grade Boys (30 teams) The team's grave liabilities in defense and rebounding against bigger teams were never more evident that year than against defendingand soon-to-be-repeatingnational champion Oklahoma A&M (later renamed Oklahoma State University) and its 7'0" All-American center, Bob "Foothills" Kurland. Texas would defeat Kansas in the tournament final to clinch an automatic bid in the NCAA tournament, the second time in three years this has occurred and the first tournament final win over Kansas in school history. At the time of the formation of the Big 12, OSU held a 2419 lead in the all-time series.[211]. Weltlich stated before the season began that his third Texas would be "vastly improved" over the previous two. [251] Two Longhorn basketball players won SWC player of the year honors twice. Texas quickly took advantage of Arkansas's absence, as Penders' 199192 team finished with a 2312 overall record, for his fourth consecutive season of 23 or more wins, and a share of the SWC championship. Hughes was fired after only three seasonseach with a losing record, and each worse than the one preceding itwith an overall record of 2546 (.352) after his final team posted a mark of just 420, tying the 195455 season as the then-worst in program history and concluding a five-year span of futility in which the Longhorns produced an overall record of 4178 (.345). 1966 NCAA Men's National Basketball Champions Bobby Joe Hill David Lattin Orsten Artis Nevil Shed Harry Flournoy Willie Worsley Willie Cager Louis Baudoin Jerry Armstrong David Palacio Dick Myers Togo Railey 1966 Championship Team Stats Moody Center features the best and biggest names in the music industry while hosting The University of Texas Womens and Mens basketball games, family shows and other sporting and local events. [111], Rick Barnes won recognition as NABC District 9 Coach of the Year in five seasons (1999, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2014). [26] His Texas team finished with an overall record of 84 and, beginning with a 707 rout of Southwestern in San Marcos, contributed the first three victories to what would become a national-record winning streak. The Longhorns played just 10 of their 27 games under Metzenthin (and only four of their final 18) on their home court, outdoor Clark Fieldwith its stubbornly uneven surface and total vulnerability to weather conditions[22]being particularly ill-suited as a basketball venue. Texas 10 and eventual Final Four participant Houston at Hofheinz Pavilion and No. No specific plans for basketball took shape at UT, but discussions of a larger gym or arena continued over the next three years. The Pavilion is named for Dr. Denton A. Cooley, a UT alumnus, basketball letterman (193941), and pioneering heart surgeon. 12 in the Coaches Poll. The Longhorns lost to the Iowa Hawkeyes in the opening game by a score of 9892, marking the only time in eight first-round NCAA Tournament contests under Penders that Texas would fail to advance to the second round. In addition to leading the U.S. team in scoring, he finished second on the team in rebounding, first in blocked shots, and second in steals. [127] Nonetheless, the 198384 season saw a number of particularly lopsided defeats, with a 10372 loss to SMU and a 7447 loss to Texas Tech representing what remain the third- and ninth-worst home losses in program history. National Championships The University of Texas has claimed 63 team championships (59 NCAA titles) dating back to 1949. [180], The Texas Longhorns men's basketball team moved indoors to the new Men's Gym in 1917. 1995 Jeff Moore | Feature
Clark Field, originally known as Varsity Athletic Field, was an on-campus, outdoor stadium that was the original home of the Texas Longhorns men's basketball team, as well as the Longhorn football, baseball, and track teams. Mack, a sophomore guard, left the team and transferred to Alabama. 15 final ranking in the UPI Coaches' Poll. Texas defeated Texas A&M and Texas Tech in the SWC Tournament to advance to the final against Houston. 1972 George Hannon* | Feature
[33], Theo Bellmont hired Eugene Van Gent from Missouri in 1916 to lead the Texas football, basketball, and track programs. 4Since 193233 season. [38] After winning their first five games, the Longhorns lost six of eleven to finish at 106 overallTexas' worst season in nine years. From 1951 to 1988, the Longhorns finished with losing records 14 times, recorded a winning percentage of .522, and participated in the expanded Tournament only five times. The Longhorns began the season with four blowout wins, the last and closest coming by a score of 4634 against the Continental Air Liners of Denver. The official 2022-23 Men's Basketball schedule for the University of Texas Longhorns. 2012 Jerritt Elliott* | Feature
Following the end of the season, the UT Office of the President and the Board of Regents directed Dodds to fire Lemons, who had two years at $52,000 per year remaining on his contract. Texas Longhorns men's basketball - Wikipedia 9Since 197273 season. 4 seed and a bye to the second round in the 1979 NCAA tournament. In series against former Southwest Conference members who are not current members of the Big 12, Texas trails only Arkansas (which leads 8768). NCAA Basketball Tournament History: Texas Longhorns Texas [110] The Longhorns posted a 7061 win over St. Joseph's before falling to Southwestern Louisiana, 7776, in the second round to finish with a 1911 overall record. WebJuly 22-25, 2021 Dallas, Texas Info Schedule Teams Venues Documents Live Streaming Travel/Lodging Download the PrimeTime Sports App Click on a division below or search for a team to view the schedule. [113] Nonetheless, just as Lemons began to face notable fan frustration and criticism for the first time at Texas, his team began an unexpected run of late-season success. Anybody but another Texas team; El Pasoans prideful of Texas Following Leon Black's resignation, Texas Athletic Director and Longhorn head football coach Darrell Royal selected then-University of Texas-Pan American and former longtime Oklahoma City University head coach Abe Lemons as his primary target for the open position. The 201920 season was seen as a failure until a late-season rally by the Longhorns, which arguably saved Smart's job, along with the COVID-19 pandemic which canceled the NCAA tournament that year. Texas began 04 in SWC play and suffered four home losses among its 10 total conference defeats. Texas played its nonconference games in the TSD Gym before moving into the recently completed 1,500-seat Austin High School Gymnasium for its five SWC home games.[188]. Longhorn players Axtell, Chris Mihm, Gabe Muoneke, and Bernard Smith had met with Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds "to say that they had lost faith in Penders and his program."[172][173]. Texas was subsequently selected as a No. Redirecting to /mlb/news/lsu-vs-florida-live-stream-how-to-watch The regular season's zenith, a two-point win over Arkansas in Fayetteville on January 12, did nothing to reverse the team's downward trajectory, with losses to TCU, SMU, North Texas, Rice following shortly thereafter. Between 1941 and 1979, Texas and OSU met 32 times, with the Cowboys winning 21 of the meetings. [116] Even with the collapse following Wacker's injury, there had been no indications that his job was in jeopardy. [5][211], Rick Barnes' tenure also coincided with the emergence of a rivalry between Texas and the Big 12 Conference's traditional national basketball powerhouse, the Kansas Jayhawks. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. It will also be combined with a practice facility for the Texas Rowing team. Durant converted 25 three-point shots on only 43 attempts (.581).[296]. Texas struggled with consistency early in the season, but after leading scorer Tevin Mack was suspended in January, the Longhorns went 4-12 the rest of the way, including seven straight losses to end the regular season. Lemons' habitual sarcasm and indiscriminately acid tongue, heretofore endearing to fans if not academic administrators, began to draw criticism, with some citing his routinely quippish comments as evidence that he failed to take his team's poor performance sufficiently seriously. Durant was the unanimous national player of the year in 2007 as a true freshman, winning all 10 awards. Women's Swimming and Diving | Feature, 1985-86 (4)
WebRedirecting to /mlb/news/lsu-vs-florida-live-stream-how-to-watch-college-world-series-tv-channel-time-ncaa-baseball-odds/. They've been assistant coaches as well as players. Team records include single-season, single-game, and NCAA Tournament records for the Texas program. Only two seasons removed from his senior year at Texas, in which he earned consensus first-team All-American honors, and with only one year as an assistant coach with the Texas freshman team, the immensely popular Jack Gray was hired as the fourteenth Texas men's basketball head coach in the summer of 1937 at the age of 25.[46]. For the first time in six years, freshmen were barred from playing on the varsity team. Among Big 12 programs, Texas trails only Kansas (33) in the number of players drafted in the first round all-time. He was dismissed following the 195556 season after his final two teams produced a combined record of 1632easily the worst two-year period in the history of Longhorn basketball to that point. Which colleges have won baseball and football Texas won only a single SWC Championship during the next nine seasonsin the exceptional 221 season of 193233, for which the Longhorns were also retroactively awarded the Premo-Porretta Power Poll national championship (presently unclaimed by UT).[45]. An 8871 nationally televised win over South Carolina the following week moved Texas to No. Must have played in more than half of season's games. [223], Both Texas and Arkansas faded from national significance with the end of the 1940s. [191][192] Originally known as the Special Events Center, the facility was renamed in 1981 to honor Erwin, who had died earlier that year. Trailing by 16 points with 12 minutes remaining, the Longhorns mounted a comeback that fell just short, falling 8885 as Travis Mays' last-second three-point attempt came off the rim. [73] Texas opened conference play 50, pushing its overall record to 161, before suffering three consecutive losses to Baylor, Rice, and Arkansas to see its prospects for defending its SWC crown dashed. Texas and Texas Tech have played at least twice yearly since the 195758 season. Abe Lemons (197682) won the NABC National Coach of the Year award following his second season at Texas, a season that saw the Longhorns finish 265, win a share of the Southwest Conference title, and win the 1978 NIT Championship. 22, and Penders' third team finished with a 239 overall record, advancing to the NCAA tournament and finishing with 23 or more wins for the third consecutive year. [32][189] Gregory Gymnasium is located on the UT central campus, a short distance southeast of the UT Main Building, Tower, and Main Mall and facing west onto Speedway Avenue, the campus's central northsouth street. With a nine-game conference winning streak, Texas had finished at 102 in SWC play to claim sole possession of the SWC championship. [3] Among Big 12 Conference men's basketball programs, Texas is second only to Kansas in both all-time wins and all-time win percentage. 15 Texas A&M Aggies in Austin, and an eight-point win over the 11th-ranked Aggies three weeks later in College Station. 1 ranking in 2010, roaring to a 170 start. Moeller charged that Lemons' lack of inhibition with regard to public and private criticism of players was damaging the program. "[94] After starting the season with a 69 record, Texas managed a six-game winning streak against some of the conference's weaker teams before stumbling to a 14 finish over the final five games. He was terminated following the Longhorns' disappointing 915 season in his fourth year. [153][154] The Longhorns opened the season with an 81 record before traveling to Oklahoma City to compete in the four-team All-College Tournament. [114] At his first press conference as Texas head coach, Weltlich remarked that "titles are won with good characterand not characters"a statement many took to be a swipe at the way Lemons had run the program. North Carolina (I) 48 8Since 197980 season. Texas was subsequently selected as a No. Hopes and expectations for the 193940 team were high, as all but one of the key players returned from the previous season's SWC champion and NCAA Tournament squad. WebNCAA TV Broadcast Schedule. Abrams. Three Texas players have won Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors. [211] By the time the Aggies hired Billy Gillispie prior to the 200405 season, the lopsided nature of the seriesand the lack of Aggie fan interest in a program that had gone ten consecutive years without a winning season or postseason appearance under prior coacheshad long since diminished the stature of the once-heated rivalry. [20][103], With its four leading scorers returning, Texas entered the 197879 season with a No. UCLA (I) &&120 3. [201], The Longhorns have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) five times. Point guard B. J. Tyler, the future 20th overall pick in the forthcoming 1994 NBA draft, and Albert Burditt, future second-round selection in the 1994 Draft, returned in full health (Tyler after missing the first four games) after each having missed the majority of the previous season. Schedule. Divisions are for both boys and girls grades 3 - 12. 6 Since 197980 season. [72] Texas trailed until the final minutes of the second matchup, and Martin's long shot with 35 seconds remaining provided the margin of victory, with the Longhorns winning 4240 to advance to the Final Four for the second time, where they would face Oklahoma. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ASSOCIATED PRESS. [8], No significant preseason expectations attended the 197778 Texas Longhorns, a team that would produce one of the more successful seasons in Longhorn basketball history. [66], Returning all but one all but one top player and adding some military veterans and players from the freshman team, Gray's 194647 Texas team was thought to have a legitimate chance of winning the SWC championship, along with Arkansas, SMU, and defending SWC champion Baylor. At these championship events, Division II athletes are celebrated on television and digital networks. Kenyon (III) 61 5. 19 after winning the first ten games of the season. On March 27, 2023, Rodney Terry agreed to a deal to become Texas's full-time Head Coach. The rivalry reached its peak in the early years of the Big 12, above all when the tenures of Rick Barnes and Eddie Sutton coincided at the two schools, a time when both programs were nationally prominent. [75] The Longhorns finished the season 205, marking the first time in program history that Texas had won 20 or more games in consecutive seasons. 3Since 198687 season. The Longhorns dropped the second game of the tournament to fellow SWC member Rice, 5552. 3Since 196566 season. [212], The Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners play one game in Austin and one game in Norman each year during the regular season. [109] Texas ended the regular season with an 1810 overall record and a 106 conference record,[97] finishing third behind Texas A&M and Arkansas in SWC play. In total, Division II hosts 25 national championships 12 in mens sports and 13 in womens sports that annually give the more than 14,000 student-athletes who participate in them the experience of a lifetime. [118][122][123] LaSalle Thompson, who was considering bypassing his senior season but was as yet undecided at the time Weltlich was hired, ultimately left for the 1982 NBA draft. The Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively assigned the 193940 Longhorn team a national ranking of No. [190] The Erwin Center is located at the southeastern corner of the UT central campus and is bounded on the east by Interstate 35. Championships: 0. 4 Oklahoma in Norman, 10384; to No. [149][150][151][152] Penders led his first team to a 259 overall record, marking the first 20-win season in ten years at Texas and the then-second-highest win total in school history. LSU vs. Florida live stream: How to watch College World Series, 23 in the final AP Poll, for the Longhorns' first appearance in the final AP Poll since the 1978 NIT Championship team, and for only the second time in program history. 3 Arkansas in overtime in Austin, 10396, in a famously bitter defeat that became known in UT lore as the "Strollin' Nolan" game. [244], The Perry Wallace Most Courageous Award is the men's version of the USBWA Most Courageous Award, presented annually by the United States Basketball Writers Association to one or more individuals (not necessarily players) who, in the organization's words, have "demonstrated extraordinary courage reflecting honor on the sport of amateur basketball. 1993 Jeff Moore* | Feature
The 198586 teamwhich finished with a 1912 overall record and a share of the SWC championshipmarked the zenith of Weltlich's tenure at Texas. Documents. [62] Little was expected of the Longhorns that season, but Texas managed to win its first seven games. Women's Swimming and Diving(AIAW), 1970-71 (2)
Texas The Longhorns opened the season with wins over Washington and Princeton in the Preseason NIT in New York City, before falling to No. [185] While the loss of the Men's Gym advanced the timeline for the construction of a new gymnasium for men's basketball, the team would be left without an on-campus home for the following two seasons, playing instead in the gymnasiums of the Texas School for the Deaf and Austin High School before moving into the new Gregory Gymnasium for the 193031 season.[181][186][187]. After many days of deliberation and speculation over who would fill Barnes' post, which included names such as Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall (who was heavily courted by Alabama), Villanova coach Jay Wright, and Virginia's Tony Bennett, Texas reached an agreement with Virginia Commonwealth head coach Shaka Smart on April 2, 2015. The Longhorns finished 2013 in Smart's first season, including a fourth-place finish in the Big 12 Conference. Romney's tenure took an early inauspicious turn when the Longhorns lost at home to Oklahoma A&M, 2827, after Romney called his top players to the bench with a 14-point lead and nine minutes remaining. The Longhorns recovered to win the second game against the Razorbacks in their weekend trip to Fayetteville, 5443, to halt the losing streak. [3], The Longhorns have won 28 total conference championships in men's basketball and have made 37 total appearances in the NCAA tournament (11th-most appearances all time, with a 3538 overall record),[4] reaching the NCAA Final Four three times (1943, 1947, 2003) and the NCAA regional finals (Elite Eight) eight times. From the 194950 season through the 197576 season, Arkansas won only two SWC championships, made only a single NCAA Tournament appearance, and posted an overall record of 312338 (.480). 4 Minimum 200 rebounds. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood" Texas REIAS on Instagram: "John Robert Wooden was Texas subsequently lost the Midwest Regional third-place game to DePaul by a score of 6761. Visit ESPN to view the Texas Longhorns team schedule for the current and previous seasons. [130] After two more home wins, Texas traveled to Atlanta to play in the Cotton States Classic. 7Since 196061 season. [234][235][236][237][238][239][240][241] Durant was the first freshman ever to win any of the National Player of the Year awards.