The Longhorns avenged the previous season's loss to Utah with a 93–91, double-overtime home win over Rick Majerus's Utes before losing a closely contested game at Illinois, 83–78. Texas defeated New Mexico in the first round, 69–66, before falling to eventual NIT champion Ohio State in the second round, 71–65. 22, and Penders' third team finished with a 23–9 overall record, advancing to the NCAA Tournament and finishing with 23 or more wins for the third consecutive year. 8Since 1979–80 season. Texas, with seven returning lettermen and war veterans who had played in 1916 and 1917, was once again expected to contend for the conference championship in 1920, but seven players missed significant parts of the season due to injury and illness. Coaching career. [47] The Jayhawks appeared to be on their way to winning the first game until the Longhorns rallied late in the second half for a 36–34 victory. [189][190] Originally known as the Special Events Center, the facility was renamed in 1981 to honor Erwin, who had died earlier that year. Eugene Van Gent was set to return as head coach for the 1920 season but resigned before the beginning of the season to pursue a business opportunity in California. Only one of the four players signed in the 1981 class—6'9" forward Mike Wacker—was considered a coveted prospect. On March 9, eight days after the Longhorns' final game, DeLoss Dodds announced Abe Lemons' firing. A recruiting class which included in-state talents such as Damion James and D. J. Augustin helped garner unforeseen levels of hype and scrutiny for the Texas basketball program. Point guard Isaiah Taylor returned to lead the team in scoring for the second straight season, averaging 15 points per game. The Longhorns' 6–22 overall record and 1–15 mark in SWC play represent what remain the most total and conference losses incurred in one season in program history. [14] Smart received an NCAA postgraduate scholarship and earned a master's degree in social science at California University of Pennsylvania. 2-seeded Purdue Boilermakers, 73–72, to advance to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in 18 seasons. [59][60] Texas finished the season with a 19–7 overall record. For the first time in six years, freshmen were barred from playing on the varsity team. 9 SMU in the second-to-last game of the conference slate. He was named an assistant coach for the 2020-21 season after working in a player development role for the Red Raiders in his first year. 12 in the AP poll with records of 22–4 overall and 14–2 in conference play, sharing the Southwest Conference Championship with the Razorbacks. Lemons had summarily fired assistant Steve Moeller, leading to a caustic public feud between the two men, with each blaming the other for recent disappointing recruiting results. Texas subsequently lost the Midwest Regional third-place game to DePaul by a score of 67–61. Texas surrendered an 18-point first-half lead but withstood a late CCNY rally, holding on to win, 61–59. As of October 23, 2019, 34 Texas players have played in the NBA in league history. On April 4, 2011, Smart agreed to an 8-year contract extension with VCU, increasing his base pay from $350,000 to $1.2 million per year, prior to any performance bonuses. [8][202] As of November 27, 2018, Texas teams have been ranked in 252 of 1168 total weekly AP Polls (21.6%) since the inception of the poll in the 1948–49 season (37th all-time in AP Poll appearances), and in 295 of 1153 total weekly Coaches Polls (25.6%) since the inception of the poll in the 1950–51 season. 6Since 1972–73 season. [53][54] In front of a raucous pro-Texas crowd of more than 8,000 fans packed into Gregory Gymnasium, the Longhorns suffered a one-point loss to the Owls, 42–41, to see their hopes of winning a second consecutive outright SWC championship dashed and their chances of even sharing the championship greatly diminished. [11], The Texas men's basketball team opened the Frank Erwin Center on November 29, 1977 with an 83–76 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners. 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. 17 Oklahoma in Norman, 109–106; No. Selection for the award depends upon a number of on- and off-court factors, from coaching success and philosophy to evidence of good character to graduation rates. The 2005–06 season also marked the hundredth anniversary of basketball at UT. (2009) (, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. In ten years at Texas, Penders' teams appeared in eight NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship NCAA Tournaments, advancing past the first round in all but one appearance. [188] The Longhorns won their first 25 games in the Erwin Center before falling to Arkansas in February 1979.[97]. Not much change was expected, but turbulence within the Texas athletic department ensued following Dodds' retirement in 2013. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. 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In his five seasons as the Texas head coach, Hull led the Longhorns to one Southwest Conference championship (1953–54) and finished with an overall record of 60–58 (.508). In series against former Southwest Conference members who are not current members of the Big 12, Texas trails only Arkansas (which leads 87–68). [5][213], The Longhorns' series with the Baylor Bears has featured more games played than any other UT basketball series; it is also the conference series most lopsided in UT's favor, with the exception of the Longhorns' series against former Southwest Conference opponent Rice and the much more abbreviated series against former Big 12 member Nebraska. Vic Schaefer is the new women's basketball coach at Texas, after spending the past eight seasons building a powerhouse at Mississippi State. [8], No significant preseason expectations attended the 1977–78 Texas Longhorns, a team that would produce one of the more successful seasons in Longhorn basketball history. For the 1928–29 season, the University reached an agreement with the Texas School for the Deaf for the Texas men's basketball team to play its home games in TSD's recently constructed fieldhouse. 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. 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. The Longhorns acquitted themselves well in a close loss in the first game, 55–47, but the pre-game prognostications came to fruition the following night, as Arkansas routed Texas 90–63 in the second contest. Texas traveled to Kansas City to face Wyoming in the first game of the NCAA Tournament. [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. Despite the early departure of Ford to the NBA as the eighth overall pick (Milwaukee Bucks), Texas compiled a 25–8 overall record in 2004 and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen round for a school-record third consecutive year. Hired as the twenty-third men's basketball coach in Texas history on April 12, 1998, Rick Barnes left Clemson University to take over a Texas program coming off of a losing season and "in disarray" following Tom Penders' resignation.[171]. The Pavilion is named for Dr. Denton A. Cooley, a UT alumnus, basketball letterman (1939–41), and pioneering heart surgeon. Passed over by the NCAA Tournament selection committee, Texas received a bid to the 1980 NIT, the last postseason tournament a Lemons-coached Texas team would reach. By the time the Big 12 was formed, the in-state rivalry was at a low ebb. In 2006, the Longhorns introduced blue-chip recruit and future NBA superstar Kevin Durant to Austin. Van Gent's single basketball team at Texas recorded a 13–3 overall mark and won the Southwest Conference championship for the third consecutive year, with the season highlighted by the first-ever basketball games between Texas and the Texas A&M Aggies, following the resumption of athletic relations between the two schools. The Longhorns posted a 3–2 record in their first five games, losing on the road 67–66 to South Alabama and in an 84–62 blowout at Southern California. Texas narrowly avoided an upset loss to SMU at home before blowing out Texas A&M in College Station, 54–34, to finish 9–3 and in second place in the SWC play. The end-of-season success quelled discontent for the time being, with fans and commentators pointing to the return of LaSalle Thompson, Mike Wacker, and a healthier and more experienced supporting cast as reason for renewed confidence about the near future and optimism about the program's prospects.[112]. Built for a total cost of $34 million, the building is named for former UT alumnus and Board of Regents member Frank Erwin. After a 35-point loss to No. For the first time since the 1974–75 season, Leon Black's second to last as head coach, Texas faced no ranked opponents during the 1987–88 season. 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. Albert Burditt earned first-team all-SWC honors for the 1993–94 season. Preseason expectations had Texas posting improvement over the prior season, but the 1981–82 Longhorns were nonetheless not expected to challenge for Southwest Conference supremacy. The Longhorns won 16 of their final 21 games, posting a 13–3 record in conference play and winning the school's first regular season Big 12 Conference championship by a two-game margin. Texas was subsequently selected as a No. [219], Before the Texas A&M Aggies' departure for the Southeastern Conference at the end of the 2012 academic year, Texas and Texas A&M had played at least twice (and up to four times) yearly since 1917. Smart's teams at VCU played an upbeat style of basketball known as "havoc." Texas lost a hard-fought contest to No. [75] The Longhorns finished the season 20–5, marking the first time in program history that Texas had won 20 or more games in consecutive seasons. Texas State athletic director Larry Teis announced Tuesday that basketball coach Danny Kaspar has resigned and that assistant coach Terrence Johnson will lead the … After his next two teams combined for a 28–19 overall record and a 12–12 record in conference play, Gray was notified of his acceptance for duty in the Navy in April 1942, four months after the United States had entered the Second World War. He performed quite well in the first season, becoming the first Canadian ever to earn All-Rookie team honors in the NBA. Despite having won both regular season games against the Cougars, the Longhorns were uncompetitive in a 91–72 loss in their third contest. Football and basketball were growing in popularity nationwide, and a spending and building boom was expected to take place in athletics departments around the country. [165] Nonetheless, Texas appeared to have the game in hand—leading by three, after Blanks made two free throws—until 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 86–86 and send the game into overtime. Four players from each team had been on the 1943 teams that faced off in the Final Four on Wyoming's way to the NCAA championship. [6], On April 2, 2015, Smart accepted an offer to become the new men's head basketball coach at Texas. [8][9] Texas achieved some measures of national recognition during the tenures of head coaches Abe Lemons (1976–82) and Tom Penders (1988–98), but the program rose to its highest level of prominence under the direction of former head coach Rick Barnes (1998–2015). [74] Texas started the season 6–0—highlighted by a 51–42 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders and a 51–30 blowout of the LSU Tigers, who proved too slow to handle the speed of another fast and quick Longhorn team—before embarking on another road trip to the Northeast, stopping in New York for the third time in two seasons. Texas A&M head coach Billy Kennedy talks with his players in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Vanderbilt at the Southeastern … [245], Southwest Conference Freshman of the Year, Five Longhorn men's basketball players have won conference tournament most valuable player honors—four players in the Southwest Conference Tournament and one player in the Big 12 Conference Tournament. [111], The 1980–81 Longhorn team carried little in the way of preseason expectations of success. While both Texas and Arkansas appeared to be on the verge of establishing nationally competitive programs with the hires of Abe Lemons and Eddie Sutton, respectively, only Arkansas managed to achieve sustained success in the following years, winning at least 20 games in 13 seasons from 1977 to 1991, with Sutton (1974–85) and Nolan Richardson (1985–2002) each reaching a Final Four and an Elite Eight. Each program employs a head coach.As of the 2020–21 season, the longest-tenured head coach is Jim Boeheim, who has been head coach at Syracuse since 1976.. Conference affiliations reflect those of the current 2020–21 college basketball season. 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 TSD fieldhouse had a seating capacity of just one-sixth of the Men's Gym, precluding the sale of tickets to the general public and requiring the use of a lottery for the allocation of tickets to students and existing season ticket holders. His relationship with Texas Athletic Director and Longhorn football head coach Jack Chevigny marked by increasing friction, Karow resigned as head coach in the summer of 1936 and was hired shortly thereafter as the baseball head coach for the United States Naval Academy. As part of the project, UT constructed the Denton A. Cooley Pavilion, a state-of-the-art practice and training facility that sits adjacent to the Erwin Center. Lemons remains the only men's basketball coach in UT history to earn National Coach of the Year honors. [137] With the combination of poor overall results and an ultra-slow-tempo style of play that fans found unappealing, attendance plummeted from the lofty marks achieved during the tenure of the popular Lemons to an average of barely more than 4,000 fans per game during Weltlich's final season (far below the turnout for Jody Conradt's Lady Longhorns teams at that time). 3 Since 1979–80 season. With a nine-game conference winning streak, Texas had finished at 10–2 in SWC play to claim sole possession of the SWC championship. [57] Despite losses of coaches and players that were projected as insurmountable hardships, Texas defied expectations, winning 13 of its first 16 games. 3Since 1965–66 season. Since the beginning of the 2008–09 season, Texas has been less competitive both nationally and in the rivalry, trailing Kansas 2–15 in games played since that time. Texas A&M Athletics - Home of the 12th Man Main Navigation Menu. [8], Due to inadequate funding, the UT Athletic Council canceled the fledgling program after two seasons, leaving Texas without a basketball team for the 1908 season. An 88–71 nationally televised win over South Carolina the following week moved Texas to No. 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. [1][18], Smart has four half-siblings from his estranged father Winston Smart: Sekou Lumumba Smart,[citation needed], Ifoma Oginga Smart, Anika Aduesa Smart, and Nkosi Mandela Smart. Texas Women's Basketball head coach Vic Schaefer welcomes a championship-caliber staff with a combined 46 years of collegiate coaching experience to the Forty Acres, he announced on Friday.. Johnnie Harris and Dionnah Jackson-Durrett have been named associate head coaches, while Elena Lovato has been named assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. 3 Oklahoma late for 76-63 win", "Watch: Northern Iowa beats Texas on buzzer beater", "Texas scoring leader Mack transfers to Alabama", "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", "NCAA gets it right by changing silly tournament wording", "In Tournament of Upsets, V.C.U. [32][187] 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 north–south street. 15 Texas A&M Aggies in Austin, and an eight-point win over the 11th-ranked Aggies three weeks later in College Station. [207] In the Big 12, the competitiveness of the Texas and OU basketball programs—which are second and third in all-time Big 12 regular season conference wins, respectively—only accelerated the development of the basketball rivalry. Penders narrowed Texas Tech's lead to 50–49 during his tenure (1988–98). Tyree, is a writer and professor. Texas finished the year with a record of 19–13, earning with a No. Western Texas College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs or activities 6200 College Ave, Snyder, TX 79549 The Rams under Smart went 23–11 in the 2010–2011 season. Sanders' selection by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 15th pick made VCU the first school in the Commonwealth of Virginia to have a player selected in the first round of the NBA Draft in consecutive years, as the Utah Jazz had selected guard Eric Maynor with the 20th pick in the 2009 NBA Draft. Must have played in more than half of season's games. There are 353 men's college basketball programs competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. They've been assistant coaches as well as players. Team records include single-season, single-game, and NCAA Tournament records for the Texas program. [113] At his first press conference as Texas head coach, Weltlich remarked that "titles are won with good character—and not characters"—a statement many took to be a swipe at the way Lemons had run the program. By the time of the Longhorns' next contest, against Baylor, the Bears stood at 11–0 in conference play and had already secured the SWC championship. The Longhorns would go on to lose their remaining regular-season contests against ranked opponents—to Shaquille O'Neal, Stanley Roberts, and No. 7 Georgia Tech in the opening round—in what remains the second-largest margin of defeat in a neutral-site game in program history—Texas posted its third one-point loss of the season in the consolation game against 20th-ranked DePaul, falling 63–62. Senior center Clyde Littlefield, the linchpin of the three consecutive undefeated teams[29]—and a towering figure in UT athletics history who would later coach the football team for seven seasons (1927–33), serve as the head coach of the UT track team from 1925 to 1960 (winning 25 conference championships), and found the Texas Relays[30]—would later receive retroactive recognition as Texas' first consensus All-American in basketball for his play in the 1916 season. Two weeks and five losses later, the Longhorns would drop from the polls altogether. [199] Texas has appeared in 27 of the 40 seeded Tournaments (and in 26 of the last 30). 10Since 1979–80 season. [70] Texas was only occasionally challenged during the remainder of the regular season, winning its three remaining nonconference games by 29, 24, and 12 points and seven of its first 10 conference games by 12 or more points (and the first 10 SWC contests by an average of 16.6 points). 25 Texas overwhelms No. As the son of a basketball coach, Johnson was taught the fundamentals of basketball and instilled with the values of perseverance, dedication, and teamwork. 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. Texas advanced to the NCAA Tournament and defeated the Texas Western Miners by a score of 65–47 in its opening game to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, where the Longhorns fell 73–68 to Ed Jucker's defending two-time national champion and fifth-consecutive Final Four participant Cincinnati Bearcats. 71–72, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. [11] Smart led Texas to an NIT championship in 2019 after losing in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament the previous season to Nevada.[12]. In Bob Weltlich's 175 games as head coach, Texas had never scored 100 or more points in a game—and had only scored 90 or more points on four occasions (twice requiring an overtime period to reach that mark). Although Texas could do no better than second place, more than 8,000 fans squeezed into 7,500-seat Gregory Gym to see the Longhorns hand the Bears their only defeat of the conference season, 32–29, after Al Madsen added a layup and a free throw in the final 20 seconds. [113][114] Moreover, his sharp-tongued and indiscriminate public insults and criticism of people ranging from UT administrators and faculty to officials and coaches at other schools to SWC administrators and referees had progressively earned Lemons the ill will and resentment of a growing number of people with influence over UT athletics. Division regular season and conference tournament champion 7 Since 1979–80 season. [11], The 1979–80 Texas Longhorns returned only one starter, forward Ron Baxter. Martin and Madsen led Texas to a 43–39 lead with under four minutes remaining—after Texas had trailed by seven points midway through the second half—but 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, 45–43. 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. 15 final ranking in the UPI Coaches' Poll. [5][208][212], The first decade of the 2000s saw the peak of this new rivalry, with the Longhorns at one point trailing Kansas only 5–7 in games played over an almost-nine-season period, and with many of the contests being closely contested classics. Texas would play just three games against ranked conference opponents—all against the same team, and all occurring in the same season—in the remaining five seasons of the league's existence. Of these, 18 were selected in the first round, and 11 were selected in the second round. The Longhorns dropped the second game of the tournament to fellow SWC member Rice, 55–52. Even before the season began, the program was embroiled in controversy and turmoil. [74] Texas defeated the St. Joseph's Hawks in Philadelphia, 61–57, before returning to Oklahoma City for the All-College Tournament. 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. 2Since 1949–50 season. [8] Only three NCAA schools—California, Navy, and Wisconsin—achieved higher winning percentages for that decade.[20]. [97] The Longhorns drew an average of 15,886 fans per home game in 1978–79, a school and Erwin Center record that to this point has not been challenged. We'll run and pressure and play 94 feet of defense. On ExpressNews.com: Texas coach Shaka Smart excited for ‘another lap’ with veteran team Harmon and Hunter steered the Cougars to a 41-1 record last season and a … 77–78, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. 5 in the AP Poll, the then-highest ranking in program history. [37] Berry M. Whitaker—who had come to the University to develop and direct one of the nation's first intramural programs, and who would also coach the Texas football team for the next three seasons—agreed to serve as head coach for the season. The University of Texas began varsity intercollegiate competition in men's basketball in 1906. Kurland and the Aggies (later known as the Cowboys) dominated the diminutive Longhorns from start to finish, winning 69–34 in the opening round of the eight-team All-College Tournament in Oklahoma City. 13 in the UPI Coaches Poll, marking the first time that the basketball team had finished the season ranked since the introduction of the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll for the 1948–49 and 1950–51 seasons, respectively. [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. [66], Returning all but one all but one top player and adding some military veterans and players from the freshman team, Gray's 1946–47 Texas team was thought to have a legitimate chance of winning the SWC championship, along with Arkansas, SMU, and defending SWC champion Baylor. 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. Four Longhorn men's basketball players have competed in the Olympic Games in men's basketball on six occasions, with three players winning gold medals. The Longhorns' season came to a close with a 74–69 second-round loss at the hands of the Duke Blue Devils. Texas began 0–4 in SWC play and suffered four home losses among its 10 total conference defeats. The 2014–15 season began with raised expectations from Longhorns fans and media, especially with the signing of top-ranked Dallas-area center Myles Turner. 1 ranking in 2010, roaring to a 17–0 start. Skip To … Texas received a No. Texas fell to No. An alumnus of the University, Gregory served on the University's Board of Regents and as United States Attorney General (1914–19) before the gym was built. 6 Since 1979–80 season. "[128] Texas returned from Norman at 3–3 to face faced ninth-ranked and 7–0 LSU in Austin. Shaka Smart is starting his sixth season as the basketball coach for the Texas Longhorns and 12th season overall. He quickly validated his promise to bring high-scoring offense to Texas: in the first nine games of the 1988–89 season, the Longhorns scored more than 100 points five times. [2] On ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, he credited his personal relationship with then head coach Bill Brown as the reason for his decision to attend the school. [34] The Longhorns began the basketball rivalry with wins in both home games and in one of two games in College Station. Texas played respectably in two losses to eventual second-consecutive national runner-up Houston, losing by 11 to the No. Among Big 12 programs, Texas trails only Kansas (32) in the number of players drafted in the first round all-time. The Longhorns finished the season ranked No. [59] After falling behind by 13 points in the first half, Texas came back to win 59–55 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. He was terminated following the Longhorns' disappointing 9–15 season in his fourth year. [117][121][122] 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. They came to the rescue. [65] Sellouts had not been particularly common during the war years, but the University was growing rapidly, and if Texas basketball continued to achieve success, a looming capacity problem was clearly foreseeable. [26] His Texas team finished with an overall record of 8–4 and, beginning with a 70–7 rout of Southwestern in San Marcos, contributed the first three victories to what would become a national-record winning streak. A lack of academic progress during his time at Texas was another reflection of a shortage of discipline and another cause for embarrassment for UT officials. Texas won its final game in Maui against Notre Dame before facing Oklahoma in Austin. [181], The University constructed the Men's Gym adjacent to Clark Field to serve as the temporary home of the Texas men's basketball team pending the construction of a permanent gymnasium. In its third game of the season, Texas stunned No. Offensively, Smart-coached teams played uptempo, push the ball after misses, and run a weave-heavy motion offense. [283] Lemons won the NABC National Coach of the Year award following his second season at Texas—a season that saw the Longhorns finish 26–5, win a share of the Southwest Conference title, and win the 1978 NIT Championship. Hull was the first Texas coach since W. E. Metzenthin, who coached the basketball team for three years during the program's first five seasons (1909–11), to finish with a Texas career win percentage below .600. At the same time, a group of Austin businessmen announced plans for the construction of a 10,000-seat arena adjacent to soon-to-be-built Interregional Highway, the precursor to Interstate 35, and 23rd Street and East Avenue—plans which ultimately did not bear fruit. 7-seed Georgia Bulldogs, the Longhorns upset Gene Keady's No. The Longhorns, however, saw their season end at the hands of the USC Trojans in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. 18 Georgia Tech and No. The Longhorns finished the SWC Tournament with a 25–7 overall record, a 12–2 conference record and outright SWC championship, and a No. During his third year, Olle signaled that he would resign at the end of the season and recommended that freshman team and assistant varsity coach Marty Karow take his place. This all ended when he arrived in Austin. The Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively assigned the 1939–40 Longhorn team a national ranking of No. Texas defeated No. 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. The Longhorns added wins against Rhode Island—the team Penders had coached before being hired by Texas—and DePaul during the regular season. [167] Texas was ranked No. More of the same occurred in 2011, when Texas garnered two elite prospects in Canadians Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph and had a similar scorching (23–3) start—only to lose the league to Kansas again and fall in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to the Arizona Wildcats. Texas won the NIT Championship in 1978 and 2019. 1Since 1949–50 season. [25] Taylor came to UT with a strong reputation for basketball expertise, acquired during his years at Drake University. Five Longhorn teams were ranked among the top-ten teams in their respective years, and three Texas teams received top-three rankings. Texas routs SMU in coach Vic Schaefer's debut Nick Moyle Nov. 25, 2020 Updated: Nov. 25, 2020 4:56 p.m. Facebook Twitter Email LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest [40] The Longhorns fell short in College Station against the Aggies, then coached by future Texas football head coach and Athletic Director Dana X. Bible, who claimed their third consecutive SWC championship. In contests against these opponents since the dissolution of the Southwest Conference, Texas holds the lead against all opponents but Southern Methodist, whom the Longhorns have not played since joining the Big 12. 17 North Carolina State, 69–68, and an 80–68 loss to Alaska Anchorage. Henderson guided the Longhorns to a 17–3 overall record in his final season (1919), splitting the four-game series with the second-place Aggies to win the SWC championship—Texas' fourth basketball conference championship during the five years the conference had existed. After a 101–89 road loss to No. [220] Texas fared modestly better during this time, winning seven SWC championships, making four NCAA Tournament appearances, and posting an overall record of 342–323 (.514). 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. Dodds and Weltlich agreed to a five-year contract worth $95,000 per year, and Weltlich was introduced as head coach on April 2, 1982. VCU hired Smart to be the head coach in the spring of 2009 after the program's previous coach, Anthony Grant, left to become the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team. Gray's assistant Ed Price had also left for naval service. 135–49, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. After declining to meet Patterson's demand that he fire his assistants in order to save his job, Barnes was removed from his post as head basketball coach in late March. Texas, 1924 Consensus first-team All-American guard, 2006 NBA Draft 2nd Round, 12th pick (42nd overall)—, 1935 Consensus first-team All-American guard, 1916 Consensus first-team All-American center, Two-time first-team All-American guard (1939–40), This page was last edited on 2 December 2020, at 01:02. The award was presented for the first time following the 2003–04 college basketball season (the season following T. J. Ford's departure to the NBA). The Longhorns hold the advantage against every opponent in the last five games played and all opponents but Arkansas in the last ten games played against each respective opponent. [22], Language professor, German native, and Longhorn football head coach W. E. Metzenthin (1909–11), who had argued strongly against the cancellation of basketball at UT,[23] assumed head coaching duties for three seasons following the re-establishment of the program. 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. 6Since 1986–87 season. [170] With Tyler still absent, Texas struggled in its first four games, narrowly defeating Nebraska in Lincoln, 78–75, and losing a road contest to LSU and a home game against Florida by scores of 86–66 and 76–68, respectively. [195][196], The Texas men's and women's basketball teams have separate 9,000-square-foot practice court areas, each consisting of one full-court and one half-court practice area with seven basket stations. [82][83], Following 10–15 and 9–17 seasons in 1974–75 and 1975–76, respectively, Black resigned from his position as Texas head coach. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament. "[147], Unlike his entrance, Weltlich's departure did not result in an exodus of players from the program. 2 in both polls on Dec. 2, 2002) and received its first No. The Longhorns opened the 1986–87 season with a one-point loss to No. Must have played in more than half of season's games. 10 and eventual Final Four participant Houston at Hofheinz Pavilion and No. The Longhorns instead managed 24–14 and 17–11 victories over the Aggies to finish as the last undefeated team in Texas and SWC history at 23–0. It always has been so considered until this year Prof. Carl Taylor took charge of the work and infused new life into it."[26]. [195][196], The Cooley Pavilion will be demolished and replaced during the same phase of construction of the Dell Medical School as the Erwin Center. Gilstrap explained, "There were a lot of things I didn't know about the system, and the boys realized that. [72] Texas defeated CCNY 54–50 to finish the season with 26 wins and two last-second, one-point defeats. Arkansas dominated the series over this final phase of the SWC rivalry, winning 27 out of 37 games played during this period. Conference regular season and conference tournament champion ", "College Basketball – George Washington; Penders Hired", "Texas center Cameron Ridley fractures left foot, out indefinitely", "No. Special logos were placed on the uniforms to commemorate this anniversary. Skip To Main Content. The Longhorns nonetheless compiled an 11–3 conference record—losing road contests to TCU, Baylor, and Rice—to share the SWC championship with Houston. During the 2009 recruiting cycle, Texas acquired top-tier prospects Avery Bradley and Jordan Hamilton. He also likes nature documentaries featuring big cats. Three Longhorn men's basketball players have had their Texas jersey numbers retired: Slater Martin, T. J. Ford, and Kevin Durant. Texas men's basketball leads the all-time series against all Big 12 Conference opponents but Kansas (which leads 31–8), Kansas State (21–15), and Oklahoma (54–39). None of his six teams managed an appearance in the NCAA Tournament; only the 1985–86 team participated in postseason competition, losing in the second round of the NIT. Current KU head coach Bill Self is 20–6 in games against Texas since becoming the Jayhawks' head coach prior to the 2003–04 season. Must have played in more than half of season's games. [47] The Longhorns easily advanced through their tournament bracket, defeating Southeastern State College (Oklahoma), Westminster College (Missouri), Kansas State Teachers College, and tournament favorite Baylor before falling to Central Missouri State Teachers College in the championship game, 33–25. 8 Minimum 60 attempts. Despite Lemons' dejected mood following the final game of the season,[95] a loss to Baylor in the final men's basketball game in Gregory Gymnasium, his first team had posted a four-game improvement in its season record over the 9–17 squad of the prior year, finishing 13–13 on the season. Texas and Arkansas shared a bitter rivalry in basketball—stoked by the mutual enmity that characterized their primary rivalry in football—throughout most of the existence of the Southwest Conference. [4][5], On January 19, 2013, Smart became the second youngest active coach to win 100 games, in a 90-63 victory over Duquesne. 9 Arkansas in Austin vaulted Texas to No. 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. Of the 1982–83 Longhorn team's six wins, only three came against NCAA Division I opponents—two in non-conference play against Harvard and UNC Charlotte, and one in conference play against Rice in Austin, 47–45. Texas holds a winning record against all former Big 12 members in games played in Big 12 competition. The Longhorns defeated the TCU Horned Frogs and the Texas A&M Aggies in their remaining two conference road games before winning all five SWC contests in Austin, concluding with a 66–32 rout of the Aggies. The Longhorns again suffered a disproportionate number of injuries, including the loss of two starters to a broken leg and a fractured skull resulting from a motorcycle accident. Texas quickly took advantage of Arkansas's absence, as Penders' 1991–92 team finished with a 23–12 overall record, for his fourth consecutive season of 23 or more wins, and a share of the SWC championship. [222][223], 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. 4 seed and a bye to the second round in the 1979 NCAA Tournament. 7", "Abe Lemons Gets the Boot at Texas; Former OCU Coach Says He's "Too Crusty" for Longhorns", "Stories of the Ages: Abe Lemons' Legacy", "Obituaries: Abe Lemons, 79; Basketball Coach Beloved for His Humor", "Abe Lemons Is Dead at 79; Coached College Basketball", "Football still king, but hoops teams in Texas grab attention", "Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame – Abe Lemons", "College Basketball Roundup: Jacksonville Gives North Carolina a Scare", "De Paul Savors Crumbs Of Win Over Lowly Texas", "Men's Basketball knocks off No. The Rams consistently maintained one of the most efficient and disruptive defenses in the nation, ranking 1st nationally in both turnovers and steals forced per possession from 2011-2014. [192][193][194], Premo-Porretta Power Poll (pre-1949)Final AP Poll (1949-present)Final Coaches' Poll (1951-present), National champion [108] LaSalle Thompson, 6'10" center and future Longhorn great, joined the program as a freshman. Smart's given name was bestowed in honor of the famous Zulu warrior. [148][149][150][151] Penders led his first team to a 25–9 overall record, marking the first 20-win season in ten years at Texas and the then-second-highest win total in school history. The official Men's Basketball Coach List for the Texas A&M University Aggies. Texas remained ranked until losing to No. [26], Due to the insufficient size of the court and capacity of the theater, the off-campus location, and the added expense of renting the facility, the basketball team returned to its outdoor home at Clark Field for the 1914 to 1916 seasons. [60] It was then the Longhorns who surrendered an early 13-point lead, as the bigger and stronger Cowboys regrouped to win 58–54, on their way to defeating the Georgetown Hoyas 46–34 for the NCAA championship. Texas defeated Rice in the SWC Tournament before losing to Houston in the semifinals to end the season. [43] Contrary to prognostications, Texas opened the conference slate with two wins over Oklahoma A&M and sweeps of six other conference series to reach 14–0 in conference play, securing at least a share of the SWC championship with six games remaining, all away from Austin. [14] Mainland was able to persuade the University Athletic Council to set aside $125 for the preparation of an outdoor basketball court on the southwest corner of Clark Field—the stadium then hosting the Texas football, baseball, and track teams—and to let him organize, coach, and play on the University's first varsity basketball team. [238][239], The Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award is awarded annually by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top point guard in NCAA Division I men's basketball. The Longhorns and the Cowboys play one game in Austin and one game in Stillwater each year during the regular season. 106–37, 154–56, 2020–21 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team, National Association of Basketball Coaches, Southwest Conference tournament championship, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year, Texas Longhorns men's basketball statistical leaders, "Colors | Brand | The University of Texas", "Timeline: A history of Texas basketball", "NCAA 2018–19 Men's Basketball Record Book", "2014–2015 Men's Basketball Cumulative Statistics", "2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket", "Foundation and Growth: Images of the University's Early Years: The first men's basketball team, 1906", "Top 100 Moments in Texas Men's Basketball History", "Longhorns spotlight: A salute to the former lettermen", "Handbook of Texas Online: Southwest Conference", "NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Award Winners", "A roundup of the sports information of the week", "The University of Texas System: Deputy Chancellor's Docket No. Texas defeated non-conference opponents Clemson and Georgia over the course of the season, but fell to No. The Longhorns lost a close game to the Wolverines, 84–79, who would advance to the Elite Eight before falling to eventual national champion Arkansas, which defeated Michigan by the second-narrowest margin of its six NCAA tournament wins in 1994. Penders' revived Texas program, by default, became the weakened SWC's bell cow, winning or sharing three of the final five SWC championships. 2 Since 1949–50 season. Following the 1943–44 and 1944–45 seasons, in which Gilstrap's Longhorn teams posted overall records of 14–11 and 10–10, respectively, Jack Gray returned as head coach with the end of the Pacific War in August 1945. UT architects had already begun to draw up designs for such an arena, but the effort did not progress beyond the planning stages. [110], Rick Barnes won recognition as NABC District 9 Coach of the Year in five seasons (1999, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2014). [192][193][194], Built during the final phase of the renovation of the Erwin Center, the Denton A. Cooley Pavilion opened in the fall of 2003. Gilstrap credited Gray and Price with encouragement and advice from afar and his players with a degree of cooperation he said he had not seen before. 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 87–75 in Austin. [162][163][164] The SWC officiating crew did not assess a technical foul against Richardson for leaving the court—a decision that the NCAA's chief rules interpreter would label a mistake. [73], Slater Martin and Al Madsen returned to the 1947–48 Longhorn team, among others, but this team was short on depth compared to the previous season's Final Four team, with only seven players in Gray's rotation. Kansas leads the overall series 30–8 and has won 26 of the 33 contests since the Big 12 was formed. By DOUG FEINBERG October 21, 2020 FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2019, file photo, Texas Tech women's coach Marlene Stollings yells out to her players during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Oklahoma State, in Lubbock, Texas. In 1999, as a senior, he was an All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) selection, named the NCAC Scholar Athlete of the Year, and among 20 students in the country selected for the USA Today All-USA Academic team. 7Since 1960–61 season. 19 after winning the first ten games of the season. [132] The Longhorns suffered their fifth one-point defeat of the season against TCU in Dallas in their penultimate conference game, falling 55–54 as Horned Frog guard Jamie Dixon scored on an off-balance, 30-foot jump shot at the buzzer. After having coached the football team to an undefeated season, Stewart turned to implementing an entirely new style of basketball at Texas—one that emphasized ball movement and man-to-man defense and that essentially dispensed with the dribble altogether. [110], Eight Longhorn freshmen men's basketball players have won conference freshman of the year honors—three players in the Southwest Conference and five players in the Big 12 Conference. Despite the acrimonious parting, Lemons would be invited back to reunions in later years and would eventually be inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1994.[113]. 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? [61], Gray took charge of a 1945–46 Texas team that returned only five lettermen—none of whom had ever played under him—and which had very little size, as both forward John Hargis and Robert Summers would be out for the entire season. [5][197], *Following the introduction of the "First Four" round in 2011, the Round of 64 and Round of 32 were referred to as the Second Round and Third Round, respectively, from 2011 to 2015. Police and assistant coaches intervened, but Lemons told the media following the game that if Sutton dared to address his players again, he would "tear his Sunday clothes" and "liquidate his a**. The Aggies successfully defended their home court from Gillispie's first year through the 2009–10 season, Mark Turgeon's second-to-last season with A&M. In a rematch of the previous season's national third-place game, Texas faced the CCNY Beavers in Madison Square Garden. 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. In the following two seasons, Bradley's Texas teams posted overall records of 12–12 and 14–10. He played college basketball for a season for the University of Texas before he was picked by the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 2011 NBA draft. 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