2 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2008. Against Oklahoma, the Longhorns were finally able to end a nine-game program losing streak (extending back to 1979) and a five-game losing streak under Penders, defeating the Sooners 8775 in Austin. 2023 Men's College World Series bracket - NCAA.com Must have played in more than half of season's games. [157] The win matched Texas in the tournament final against a high-scoring, sixth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners team only nine months removed from a four-point loss as a prohibitive favorite in the 1988 national championship game. [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. [8] After Metzenthin relinquished coaching duties following the 1911 season in order to serve as UT Athletic Council chairman (precursor to the athletic director position), former Texas track coach J. Burton Rixcoaching without financial compensation, just as had his two predecessorsled Texas to a 51 record in his single season as head coach (1912). Texas finished the season with a 268 overall record, matching Jack Gray's 194647 Final Four team and Abe Lemons' 1978 NIT Championship team for most wins in program history. In his five seasons as the Texas head coach, Hull led the Longhorns to one Southwest Conference championship (195354) and finished with an overall record of 6058 (.508). [44] Despite its unblemished record, Texas was still predicted to lose at least one game to the Aggies in College Station. [177] Freshman center Jarrett Allen led Texas the rest of the way, averaging 16 points and almost 10 rebounds in Big 12 Conference play. Texas began the season unranked, only entering the January 12 AP Poll at No. Minimum 600 points.3 Minimum 200 attempts.4 Minimum 450 rebounds.5 Since 197576 season.6 Since 197980 season.7 Since 197980 season.8 Minimum 100 attempts. 20 ranking in the final AP Poll. After a semifinal loss to A&M in the conference tournament, the Longhorns were invited to the 1986 NITthe Longhorns first postseason appearance under Weltlich, and the first since the 197980 season. A two-level layout (the lower arena and upper mezzanine) currently accommodates up to 16,540 spectators for basketball games. Bradley retired following the 196667 season. [60] It was then the Longhorns who surrendered an early 13-point lead, as the bigger and stronger Cowboys regrouped to win 5854, on their way to defeating the Georgetown Hoyas 4634 for the NCAA championship. [5][6] As of the end of the 201920 season, Texas ranks sixth among all Division I men's basketball programs for total NCAA Tournament games won without having won the national championship (35), trailing Kansas State (37), Notre Dame (38), Illinois (40), Oklahoma (42), and Purdue (42). The Longhorns led 3528 at halftime, but the Tigers recovered to win, 7265. The Longhorns boarded a train for New York the following morning to face the favored Violets of New York University, led by future fourth overall 1948 draft pick, 16-year NBA star, and Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame member Dolph Schayes. The 200506 season also marked the hundredth anniversary of basketball at UT. [34] The Longhorns began the basketball rivalry with wins in both home games and in one of two games in College Station. [157][160] Penders' second team finished 249 and qualified for the NCAA tournament for the second straight yeara first in Longhorn basketball historyand for only the second time since the Tournament field expanded to 64 teams. "Doc" Stewart from Clemson University as the head football coach created further turmoil and distraction when newspapers reported that he would also be charged with leading the basketball team, thus rendering Romney a lame duck with seven games to play. Texas lost a hard-fought contest to No. Preseason expectations had Texas posting improvement over the prior season, but the 198182 Longhorns were nonetheless not expected to challenge for Southwest Conference supremacy. Widely considered the top candidate from the moment Smart departed, Beard is a 1995 alumnus of the University of Texas and served as student manager under Tom Penders during his time on campus. Texas finished the year with a record of 1913, earning with a No. Texas began 04 in SWC play and suffered four home losses among its 10 total conference defeats. Texas fell to Utah in Salt Lake City, 8776, defeated Illinois in Austin, 8972, and suffered an 8576 loss to No. In 2002, Texas advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen for the first time since the 199697 season, and for only the third time since the expansion of the tournament to 64 participants in 1985. 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. Martin was inducted on May 3, 1982.[20]. While his teams' records and performance had declined since the 197778 season, Lemons was not thought to be in danger of losing his job as he entered the 198182 season, the first year for new Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds and Lemons' last at Texas. [96][97] Texas lost 6556 to fifth-ranked, defending national champion Marquette before posting another nine straight victories, including a 7569 upset of third-ranked and eventual Final Four participant Arkansas, with its famed "Triplets" (guards Sidney Moncrief, Ron Brewer, and Marvin Delph). [49][51] Continuing on to Philadelphia, Texas fell 4737 to Temple, winners of the first National Invitation Tournament two years prior. 7-seed Georgia Bulldogs, the Longhorns upset Gene Keady's No. [226][227], T. J. Ford and Kevin Durant are the only Texas players to win one or more of the widely recognized National Player of the Year awards. [43] Texas opened the season with a one-point win and two four-point wins over Southwesternan opponent that had lost its previous six games against the Longhorns by an average of almost 20 pointsleading to concern in the local newspapers. Houston claimed the automatic bid to the Tournament, Arkansas received an at-large bid, and the Longhorns were left to accept a bid to the 1978 National Invitation Tournament. Taylor arranged for the rental of the theater of the Ben Hur Temple and its conversion into a miniature basketball court and arena so that his team would have an indoor venue for home games and practice, with UT paying the Shriners and Scottish Rite Freemasons a sum of $75 for the season. Baxter, the 1980 Southwest Conference Player of the Year,[111] finished his UT career as the then-all-time school leader in both scoring and rebounding. [69] Before returning to Austin, the 70 Longhorns stopped in Oklahoma City to play in the All-College Tournament. [213][214][215] Under Rick Barnes, the Longhorns emerged as Kansas's most consistent competition for Big 12 Conference supremacy. The Pavilion is named for Dr. Denton A. Cooley, a UT alumnus, basketball letterman (193941), and pioneering heart surgeon. E. Metzenthin (190911) and Marshall Hughes (195659)and each had only coached for three seasons. 89104, 201415 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 101, 201415 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 104, 201415 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 123, 201415 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. 11318, 201415 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 90, 201415 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. 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. 15 Texas A&M Aggies in Austin, and an eight-point win over the 11th-ranked Aggies three weeks later in College Station. Of the Longhorns' 12 regular-season losses, only two came by margins greater than nine points (with 14 points being the largest margin of defeat). Barnes guided Texas to 16 NCAA tournament appearances in his 17 seasons with the program,[10] including a school-record 14 consecutive appearances (19992012), as well as fifteen 20-win seasons overall and a school-best 13 consecutive 20-win seasons (200012). In the NCAA tournament the Horns would defeat Colgate, Penn State, and Xavier en route to the school's first Elite Eight appearance in 15 years; the squad would lead Miami by double-figures in the second half but ultimately fell short, 8881. Among Big 12 programs, Texas trails only Kansas (33) in the number of players drafted in the first round all-time. [295][296], Kevin Durant was the leading scorer on the United States men's basketball team that won the gold medal in the 2012 Olympics. TournamentScoop | Texas Basketball Tournaments Name, Image, & Likeness (NIL) Sports. Texas players openly marveled at the wholesale change in coaching philosophy from prior seasons to one that now encouraged them to shoot in large volumes, and some expressed eagerness to see how they would fare against elite competition with their new style of play. [158] Texas won six games in conference play by five or fewer points to finish in second place in the SWC with a 124 record, with two losses to Arkansas and one loss apiece to Houston and Texas A&M. [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. [4][7], The Texas basketball program experienced substantial success during the early decades of its existence, but its success in the modern era is of relatively recent vintage. Even so, Texas received a preseason AP ranking of No. TX Basketball News Jordan Divens Yesterday NBPA Top 100 Camp participants Elite camp hosts 77 prospects from the Class of 2024, 30 prospects from the Class of 2025 and two prospects from the Class of 2026. [107] Following a 3938 loss to the ninth-ranked Razorbacks in the SWC Tournament Final, Texas received a No. Durant converted 25 three-point shots on only 43 attempts (.581).[296]. 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]. Since 1997, Texas has had 23 players drafted overall; of these, 15 were drafted in the first round. The team finished with a 228 record with Terry as interim coach. Texas would win only two of its final 13 games, finishing the season with a 1611 overall record. Mays and Blanks having been selected in the first round of the 1990 NBA draft, the Longhorns entered the 199091 season without two-thirds of the Elite Eight team's "BMW scoring machine." Missing five players to injury and grades in the latter part of the season, including the SWC's leading scorer in Phillip Peyton, Texas nonetheless entered its final game with a chance to win the SWC championship for the first time since 1919. [105] A home loss to 14th-ranked Arkansas was the lone blemish during the 13-game stretch, a game that featured a shouting and shoving episode, famous in SWC lore, between Lemons and Eddie Sutton after Sutton had admonished Texas player Johnny Moore on the court. 8390, 201415 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. [59] After falling behind by 13 points in the first half, Texas came back to win 5955 behind 30 points from John Hargis and 15 from Buck Overall to advance to its first-ever Final Four, where it drew the other Tournament co-favorite, the Wyoming Cowboys. Penders narrowed Texas Tech's lead to 5049 during his tenure (198898). Henderson's team recorded Texas' third consecutive undefeated season in 1916 to extend the total to 40 consecutive victories. [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. The Athletics Council revived the program in 1909, owing in large part to the efforts of Longhorn player Morgan Vining, who campaigned to raise student interest in the game. [8] At the conclusion of the 191213 academic year, the UT's Cactus yearbook declared, "Basketball is no longer a minor sport at the University of Texas. B. J. Tyler was recognized as the Southwest Conference Player of the Year and became the first Texas men's basketball player to receive All-American honors since LaSalle Thompson in 1982. . During the 2009 recruiting cycle, Texas acquired top-tier prospects Avery Bradley and Jordan Hamilton. The Longhorns finished 2013 in Smart's first season, including a fourth-place finish in the Big 12 Conference. The Longhorns began a four-game stretch of conference road games with a win over Baylor in Waco before continuing to Dallas to face the SMU Mustangs, who stood at 50 in conference play. Event Calendar - Round Rock Sports Center [223], The rivalry grew especially heated from the mid-1970s onward as both schools' athletic departments poured additional resources into their basketball programs, both for coaching hires and for facilities, each seeking to revive programs that had receded from the national stage over the preceding quarter-century. [164][167] Two losses to Houston left Texas with a 124 record and third-place finish in conference play. [12][13] Mainland had been a nationally known basketball player as an undergraduate student at Wheaton College (Illinois) prior to coming to UT. The 198586 teamwhich finished with a 1912 overall record and a share of the SWC championshipmarked the zenith of Weltlich's tenure at Texas. The 2009 graduating class finished with 109 wins, besting the 2006 class's mark of 101 wins to become what remains the winningest class in school history. [52] Having lost one of two road contests against Arkansas and a road game against SMU in overtime, Texas entered the penultimate game of the season at 183 and tied at 82 in conference play with the preseason conference favorite Rice Owlsa team that the Longhorns had defeated on Rice's home court earlier in the season, 5046. The Longhorns have recorded five top-ten finishes and two top-five finishes in one or more of the final polls. New UT Athletic Director Steve Patterson set out to dramatically change the entire Longhorn program, with the resignation of popular football coach Mack Brown following the 2013 football season. Current KU head coach Bill Self is 206 in games against Texas since becoming the Jayhawks' head coach prior to the 200304 season. Built for a total cost of $34 million, the building is named for former UT alumnus and Board of Regents member Frank Erwin. Excepting two strong seasonsone particularly noteworthyTexas maintained this level of relatively unremarkable performance in basketball for the better part of the next decade. The Longhorns next traveled more than 500 miles by train to open a long and bitter basketball rivalry with the Arkansas Razorbacks, then in their first year of competition in the sport, earning four- and 11-point wins in Fayetteville. Texas was subsequently selected as a No. [139][140][146][147] Early on, Penders promised Texas fans, "We'll run after made shots, missed shots, turnovers, timeouts, TV timeouts, you name it. [163][164][165] The SWC officiating crew did not assess a technical foul against Richardson for leaving the courta decision that the NCAA's chief rules interpreter would label a mistake. (Surprisingly, Rick Barnes' popular and successful Longhorn teams of the 2000s never beat Kansas in the Big 12 tournament and only made the finals six times in his tenure -- including three losses in a row to the Jayhawks). [4][7] The Longhorns' overall record in the Tournament is 3940, with one loss vacated by NCAA action taken against a Longhorn opponent. After a home win over Oral Roberts, the Longhorns traveled to Norman to face an eighth-ranked and 70 Oklahoma. After having lost four of five games, Texas posted an 83 record in its final 11 contests to finish with a respectable mark of 167 and a third-place conference finish, significantly exceeding preseason expectations for the undersized 194546 team. After trailing 19th-ranked Arkansas 4527 at halftime in Austin, Texas narrowed the Razorbacks' lead to 6866 in the final minute before Arkansas added two final points to secure the win. 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. [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. Texas defeated both SMU and TCU in overtime in the SWC Tournament to advance to the final, in which Arkansas defeated the Longhorns for the third time in 10 weeks. Asked in a preseason media session if he felt his first Texas team to be worthy of a top-twenty ranking, Lemons replied, "You mean in the state? [221] By the time Tom Penders became the Texas head coach prior to the 198889 season, Texas Tech held a 4332 lead in the series. The scheduled included the school's first-ever basketball game in China - a 7771 loss to Washington. Terry guided a senior- and transfer-heavy Longhorn team to a second-place Big 12 finish, behind perennial conference power Kansas. 7 Georgia Tech in the opening roundin what remains the second-largest margin of defeat in a neutral-site game in program historyTexas posted its third one-point loss of the season in the consolation game against 20th-ranked DePaul, falling 6362. [54], With demand for tickets outstripping the seating capacity of Gregory Gym, calls began to grow louder for the construction of a new arena. Arkansas dominated the series over this final phase of the SWC rivalry, winning 27 out of 37 games played during this period. The Official Website for Texas Game Time Basketball [77], Bradley's 196263 team again won the SWC outright and reached 20 wins for the first time since Jack Gray's 194748 Longhorns. 2023-24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season - Wikipedia Van Gent's 1917 Texas team also added the final four wins to the Texas winning streak that had begun in 1913 before suffering a 2418 loss to Rice in Austin. [18] The Longhorns ultimately won seven of the eight games scheduled in the basketball program's inaugural season. Privately, though, Dodds had faced pressure from important administrators and boosters to dismiss the popular Lemons ever since he had arrived at Texas the prior autumn. [166] Nonetheless, Texas appeared to have the game in handleading by three, after Blanks made two free throwsuntil Arkansas's Lee Mayberry, the national leader in three-point field goal percentage, made a contested 30-foot shot with four seconds remaining to tie the game at 8686 and send the game into overtime. With the rejuvenation of the Texas A&M basketball program under Billy Gillispie (200407) and Mark Turgeon (200711), the basketball rivalry between Texas and Texas A&M quickly intensified. 3 Mustangs in Austin and 6460 to No. 2022 NCAA Tournament schedule. We've just been trying to work it out together. Penders finished as the then-winningest coach (by win total) in program history, with an overall record of 208110 (.654). Longhorn football assistant coach Howard "Bully" Gilstrap was appointed to coach the team for the duration of the war.[55][56]. 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. 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). [5][50], The formation of the Big 12 led to the development of a competitive rivalry between Texas and the Oklahoma State Cowboys, two programs that had already compiled a significant series history despite their residence in different conferences since OSU's departure from the Southwest Conference following the 192425 season. Players with only all-conference honors (other than conference player of the year), lower than first-team All-America honors, or later than second-round draft positions are not included. Texas Basketball Tournaments Your search turned up 27 listings. 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.