Texas Longhorns: Texas Basketball
August 2, 2024
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Texas basketball released the full non-conference schedule for the 2024-2025 season on Thursday afternoon. The Longhorns will open the season in Las Vegas against Ohio State before traveling to Brook...
February 9, 2024
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Texas earned another impressive win last Saturday, beating a ranked TCU team on the road. The win was important, as Texas needs as many good wins as possible for their postseason resume as things mov...
July 17, 2021
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Texas Longhorns men's basketball head coach Chris Beard landed the first high school commitment since his time in Austin began with Lewisville iSchool Academy's Arterio Morris.
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July 17, 2021
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If Texas wasn’t already considered a serious contender to make a Final Four-type run in year one under Chris Beard, they certainly are now.
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April 30, 2021
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I'm a big fan of Matt Coleman.
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April 29, 2021
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Texas guard Matt Coleman will move on to professional basketball and hire an agent, he announced Thursday.
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April 13, 2021
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Texas guard Andrew Jones announced Tuesday he would return to Texas for the 2021-22 season, his sixth in Austin.
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April 6, 2021
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While Chris Beard and staff are working non-stop to put together the best roster possible for the 2021-22 season, the work on the uber important 2022 recruiting class is well underway.
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April 5, 2021
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Right now, the University of Texas is funding, staffing, and resourcing its revenue sports in a coherent, considered, and rational way. It’s long overdue. It’s an attempt to shape and define the ...
April 5, 2021
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While the head men’s basketball coach at Texas Tech, Chris Beard took the Red Raider program to heights it had never experienced. Not even legendary coach Bob Knight, for whom Beard was an assistan...
April 1, 2021
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Chris Beard developed a multi-faceted recruiting strategy in his five seasons at Texas Tech, crafting rosters with blue-chip and underrated high school prospects in addition to several transfers. Wit...
March 28, 2021
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Shaka Smart spent six seasons leading the Longhorn basketball program. After an ascendant NCAA Tournament run from the First Four to the Final Four in 2011, Smart rode the momentum from five-straight...
March 21, 2021
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ACU forward Joe Pleasant stepped to the line trailing by one with just over a second left. A 58 percent free throw shooter, Pleasant would need to hit one to tie the game at 52 and two to seal an ups...
March 18, 2021
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In Matt Coleman’s freshman year, Texas lost to Nevada in overtime during the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament. Playing in March Madness was a dream of Coleman’s ever since he realized coll...
March 16, 2021
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When the buzzer sounded in Saturday’s Big 12 Tournament final, years of pent-up emotions finally surfaced. Texas head coach Shaka Smart produced a celebratory yell that momentarily tore away the in...
March 14, 2021
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Texas was the three-seed in the Big 12 Tournament. It has the same seeding in the East region of the 2021 NCAA Tournament
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March 13, 2021
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Want information on Texas basketball from Eric Nahlin, Justin Wells, Joe Cook, Gerry Hamilton, Tim Preston, and Bobby Burton? Sign up for Inside Texas HERE today! Prior to the Big 12 Tournament on...
March 5, 2021
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Someday, many years in the future, Jericho Sims will look back upon his 16-point, 12-rebound game at Oklahoma during his senior year with fondness. Maybe hell even smile.
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March 4, 2021
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Jase Febres’ junior season ended on February 8th, 2020 when the Texas guard suffered an injury versus Texas Tech. He would require surgery to repair a microfracture in his left knee, beginning a lo...
March 2, 2021
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As Texas creeps closer and closer to the NCAA Tournament, it will face tougher competition than an Iowa State team that hasn’t recorded a win during conference play.
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February 24, 2021
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Texas topped Kansas in overtime, 75-72, and made history in the process.
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February 10, 2021
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You won’t find any lazy comparisons between basketball coach Shaka Smart and football coaches Charlie Strong and Tom Herman in this writing.
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February 1, 2021
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Shaka Smart has recovered from COVID-19. Texas’ practice on Sunday was the first one he was able to run since his positive test. In addition, he said Monday that Sunday’s practice was the first t...
January 27, 2021
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The hallowed hoops hall of Rupp Arena awaits the arrival of the No. 5 Texas Longhorns this Saturday in Lexington, Ky. Four national championship teams and six other Final Four squads have called one ...
January 26, 2021
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No. 5 Texas lost a close one to No. 24 Oklahoma at the Erwin Center on Tuesday, 80-79. The Longhorns were missing Jericho Sims, Courtney Ramey, Brock Cunningham, and Shaka Smart, and despite once tra...
January 25, 2021
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Texas head coach Shaka Smart announced Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19.
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December 22, 2020
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If 24 points and 14 rebounds during a 77-74 win over Oklahoma State did not make Greg Brown’s intentions during his time with the Texas basketball program clear, his postgame words certainly did.
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December 8, 2020
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Prior to the season, Texas head coach Shaka Smart fielded a question he fields every year: got anybody who can shoot? One player came to mind for the head coach entering his sixth season in Austin in...
December 2, 2020
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Shaka Smart’s Longhorns uncharacteristically won with offense Monday in their 78-76 defeat of Davidson during the Maui Invitational in Asheville, N.C. Thanks to six Longhorns in double figures, inc...
November 25, 2020
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The Texas Men’s Basketball season tips off Wednesday against UT-Rio Grande Valley and expectations are as high for this season as any in Shaka Smart’s tenure and possibly (excluding the season Ri...
November 11, 2020
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Texas men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart is set to enter his sixth season in Austin, searching for his third NCAA Tournament appearance at Texas.
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May 4, 2020
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Some things remain normal in Texas' capital city. Once again, Texas head coach Shaka Smart’s job status is a hot topic of discussion among Longhorn fans. Once again, UT men’s basketball supporter...
March 17, 2020
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With the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament, the 2019-20 men’s college basketball season is over. Shaka Smart’s Texas Longhorns were set to duel Texas Tech in the first round of the Big 12 Tourn...
March 8, 2020
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For the 2019-20 season, Texas shot 35 percent from three. Over the five games the Longhorns won leading up to Oklahoma State, UT shot 43.6 percent from behind the arc. Against the Cowboys on Saturday...
March 4, 2020
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An ugly basketball game ended beautifully for the Texas Longhorns, with Matt Coleman’s last-second three strengthening a tournament resume that didn’t exist a month ago.
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March 1, 2020
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I'm not gonna lie, I'm still in a bit of disbelief.
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February 25, 2020
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It took everyone.
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January 16, 2020
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Texas went to Stillwater and beat a team they were expected to beat, and honestly, never were in any true peril of losing.
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January 9, 2020
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Prior to Texas’ 72-62 loss to Oklahoma on Wednesday, Texas head coach Shaka Smart spent 20 minutes Monday speaking with local media. Throughout his entire tenure, Smart has given thoughtful answers...
December 9, 2019
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The return of the Lone Star Showdown on the football field will have to wait, but the return of the men’s basketball edition was noteworthy for the pairing of teams rather than the play on the cour...
December 4, 2019
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UAB just couldn’t keep up with the Joneses.
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November 20, 2019
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Texas entered the 2019-20 season with uncertainty surrounding the frontcourt. When the Longhorns battle Georgetown this Thursday at Madison Square Garden in the 2K Empire Classic, they’ll face the ...
November 10, 2019
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Going on the road to a tough environment this early in the season presents a myriad of question marks. How good are we really? How well will the kiddos handle the raucous crowd? How will we respond i...
February 3, 2019
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Just when we thought Texas was going to get hot again as they did in their first five games, Iowa State and the crowd in Ames had other plans. The game began with Iowa State jumping out to a lead, al...
January 3, 2019
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Texas basketball opened Big 12 conference play with a key win on Wednesday night, cruising past Kansas State 67-47 in Manhattan. The Longhorns turned in several rocky performances en route to a 8-4 n...
June 7, 2018
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Texas basketball's Andrew Jones was diagnosed with Leukemia in January. After months of treatment and progress that both Jones and UT has shared publicly, Texas head coach Shaka Smart issued another ...
March 7, 2018
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Texas plays its opening round game of the Big 12 Tournament tonight against Iowa State, a team they beat in both matchups this year. It sounds like the message coming out of KC is that Mohamed Bamba ...
February 13, 2018
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Texas struggled out of the gate in the first half, but was able to play the Baylor Bears even in the last nine minutes of the half to make it just a one possession game after the first 20 minutes. Te...
January 30, 2018
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January 25, 2018
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AUSTIN -- The Vandegrift Vipers are in just their second season as an UIL 6A athletic program after being in 5A for the rest of their existence. This places them in a district with some of the best t...
January 22, 2018
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January 16, 2018
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January 12, 2018
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Donations can be made through this web site and will be given directly to the Jones family to assist with medical and necessary family expenses as permitted within NCAA rules.
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January 11, 2018
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December 19, 2017
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December 7, 2017
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Time to once again break out the subjective segment-by-segment breakdown of Texas basketball, this time for a win.
(The system agrees with the score, Texas won 6-5-1)
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December 5, 2017
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When head coach Shaka Smart left Virginia Commonwealth University for Texas in April 2015, Texas had the option of either scheduling a home-and-home with the Rams or buying out the contest as part of...
November 30, 2017
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Coming off of three tough games in the PK80 tournament, Shaka Smart and the Texas Longhorns had a chance to get back into the win column following the early season tournament. They welcomed a 1-7 Flo...
November 29, 2017
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Shaka Smart spoke with the media Tuesday about the difficult losses suffered in Portland to Duke and Gonzaga and what the team learned from those tournament like games ahead of tonight's match up wit...
February 2, 2016
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Texas basketball just keeps impressing. The Longhorns upset yet another ranked foe on Monday night, stunning No. 15 Baylor 67-59. The Longhorns got a huge night out of Connor Lammert, who led t...
January 27, 2016
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Texas basketball avenged one of their ugliest losses of the year Tuesday night by dominating TCU 71-54 at the Erwin Center. The star this time around was senior center Prince Ibeh, who posted a caree...
January 21, 2016
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Jevan Felix led the way on Wednesday night as Texas basketball stunned number 6 West Virginia 56-49 in a defensive battle in Morgantown. The win was the Longhorns (12-6, 4-2) first road win over an A...
November 14, 2015
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Texas basketball struggled in its season opener. Perhaps the team was mesmerized by all that Shanghai has to offer? The Shaka Smart era with Texas basketball got off to a running start Friday night. ...