Our mission continues to embody the principles of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The 2006 class, which finished with 101 wins in four years, bested the 2004 class's mark of 98 wins to become the then-winningest class in the history of Longhorn basketball. [38] After winning their first five games, the Longhorns lost six of eleven to finish at 10–6 overall—Texas' worst season in nine years. 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. 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. The Longhorns defeated the Aggies in all three games in Turgeon's final season and in both games in Billy Kennedy's first season with the Aggies. Texas lost a hard-fought contest to No. Skip To … [208], The Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners play one game in Austin and one game in Norman each year during the regular season. 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. [52][53] Texas finished 18–5 with no invitation to a postseason tournament. For the fifth time in Weltlich's six seasons, Texas failed to advance to a postseason tournament. There the Longhorns defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets by a score of 54–45 and the Alabama Crimson Tide, 40–31, to advance to the title game against Oklahoma A&M. 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. Texas nonetheless ended the season ranked No.       Division regular season champion The official Men's Basketball Coach List for the Texas Tech University Red Raiders. [191] The two-level, 44,000-square-foot building sits adjacent to the Erwin Center and serves as a state-of-the-art practice and training facility for the Texas men's and women's basketball teams. "[94] After starting the season with a 6–9 record, Texas managed a six-game winning streak against some of the conference's weaker teams before stumbling to a 1–4 finish over the final five games. Until Arkansas' departure for the Southeastern Conference after the 1990–91 season, the Longhorns and the Razorbacks had played at least twice—and often three times—each year since the 1924 season. 2 Arkansas, Texas won ten straight games—nine over SWC opponents and one over DePaul—to Texas resurface in the AP Poll for one week in mid-February at No. It always has been so considered until this year Prof. Carl Taylor took charge of the work and infused new life into it."[26]. [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. Oklahoma leads the overall series 54–39; Texas leads 26–25 in games played since the inception of the Big 12. [219], Both Texas and Arkansas faded from national significance with the end of the 1940s. VCU won 72–71 against Florida State University in overtime to earn the school's first spot in the Elite Eight and subsequently upset the top-seeded University of Kansas 71–61 for its first Final Four appearance. Durant also set the U.S. record for most made three-point shots in an Olympic competition with 34 (on 65 attempts). 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. Smart grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. Ed Olle (1931–34), who had played for Texas under Stewart, coached Texas for three seasons after Walker's dismissal, leading the Longhorns to a 22–1 overall mark, a conference championship, and a retroactively awarded Premo-Porretta Power Poll national championship during his second year. 11 seed to play in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 10 seasons, where the Longhorns would defeat the sixth-seeded Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 76–70, for the program's first NCAA Tournament victory since 1972. 4 Minimum 450 rebounds.       Division regular season and conference tournament champion The Longhorns dropped the second game of the tournament to fellow SWC member Rice, 55–52. 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. 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. [160][161][162] The Longhorns led by one point with 14 seconds remaining when Arkansas head coach Nolan Richardson, after an intentional foul call against a Razorback player, slowly walked off the court to the Arkansas locker room. [133] Texas followed up the loss to TCU with its sixth one-point loss of the season—and third out of four total losses in SWC games—against Texas Tech in Austin in the conference finale to surrender sole possession of first place in conference play and ultimately share the SWC championship with TCU and Texas A&M. 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 four senior starters on the 2004 team graduated as the winningest class in school history (98 wins) to that point. The Longhorns opened the season with wins over Washington and Princeton in the Preseason NIT in New York City, before falling to No. The Longhorns lost to the Iowa Hawkeyes in the opening game by a score of 98–92, marking the only time in eight first-round NCAA Tournament contests under Penders that Texas would fail to advance to the second round. [44] Despite its unblemished record, Texas was still predicted to lose at least one game to the Aggies in College Station. [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. 65–66, NCAA 2015 Men's Basketball Record Book, pp. (Richardson would lead the Razorbacks to two more Final Fours and a national championship after Arkansas' departure from the SWC.) Team records include single-season, single-game, and NCAA Tournament records for the Texas program. No specific plans for basketball took shape at UT, but discussions of a larger gym or arena continued over the next three years. [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. [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. The official Men's Basketball Coach List for the Texas A&M University Aggies. 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. 7Since 1978–79 season. Skip To Main Content. "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. 11 Texas doom No. 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 posted a 10–6 record in SWC play, tying for fourth place, and lost the first game of the conference tournament to Houston, 72–57. 4 Oklahoma in Norman, 103–84; to No. Henderson scouted talent in the intramural ranks and nonetheless assembled a team that finished 14–5 overall and missed winning Texas' fourth consecutive SWC championship by a single game. Scoreboard. [222] Former UT Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds stated that an exception was made in the case of Slater Martin because, as a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, he was a legend in the sport of basketball but had competed before any of the widely recognized awards were established (the Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year was established in 1943, but it was not awarded from 1947 to 1949). Along the way, Texas earned its highest ranking in school history in both the Associated Press and the ESPN/USA Today polls (No. For the Texas women's basketball team, see, Premo-Porretta national championship in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics, Jack Gray & H. C. "Bully" Gilstrap era (1937–51), Texas recedes from the national stage (1951–76), Texas School for the Deaf and Austin High School Gymnasiums (1928–30), Denton A. Cooley Pavilion practice and training facility (2003–present), All-time series records against Big 12 members, All-time series records against former Big 12 members, All-time series records against non-Big 12 former SWC members, Records against all other collegiate opponents, Individual honors, awards, and accomplishments, Honors, awards, and accomplishments by player, Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award, Conference tournament most valuable player, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 66, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 65, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 123, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 80, NCAA 2015 Men's Basketball Record Book, p. 55, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 105, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFESPN,_ed.2009 (, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 79, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 83, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. 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. 10 seed in the NCAA Tournament. 3Since 1986–87 season. In addition to both coaches, three starters from the 1941–42 team had departed for service in the war. Texas played respectably in two losses to eventual second-consecutive national runner-up Houston, losing by 11 to the No. [20][103], With its four leading scorers returning, Texas entered the 1978–79 season with a No. Their combined record is 11–3. [138][139][145][146] Early on, Penders promised Texas fans, "We'll run after made shots, missed shots, turnovers, timeouts, TV timeouts, you name it. The College shall prepare students with competencies in critical and creative thinking related to the knowledge, skills, and abilities as defined in areas of study. 4 Cougars in Houston, a 96–59 defeat to Texas A&M in College Station, a 76–43 defeat at the hands of Baylor in Waco, and an 82–48 loss to TCU in Fort Worth. [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]. Mainland had been a nationally known basketball player as an undergraduate student at Wheaton College (Illinois) prior to coming to UT. By the time the Big 12 was formed, the in-state rivalry was at a low ebb. [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. For the 1989–90 season, Texas returned its high-scoring trio of guards, Lance Blanks, 1989 SWC player of the year Travis Mays, and Joey Wright—dubbed "BMW—the ultimate scoring machine" by the Texas sports information department and labeled the third-best set of guards in the country by Dick Vitale. The game against the Air Liners was the last game Texas would play against a semi-professional team, once a routine component of the nonconference schedule, until the 1955–56 season. [192][193][194], Premo-Porretta Power Poll (pre-1949)Final AP Poll (1949-present)Final Coaches' Poll (1951-present), National champion   [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. 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. As of June 21, 2019, 45 Longhorn men's basketball players have been selected in the NBA Draft in the history of the program. During Rick Barnes' 17 seasons as head coach (1998–2015), the Longhorns posted a 33–4 record against the Red Raiders, for a period of dominance unequaled at any other point in the series. Burg’s Coaching Experience Seasons, School, Position 2003-05, Lake Erie College, Graduate Assistant 2005-06, Garden City Community College, Assistant Coach 2006-07, Western Texas College, Assistant Coach 2007-09, Middle Tennessee State, Director of Basketball Operations 2009-13, Campbell, Assistant Coach 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. L. Theo Bellmont, the first Athletic Director at The University of Texas—and a man instrumental in the formation of the Southwest Conference—took the reins as head coach from 1914 to 1915, for the first of his two stints leading the basketball team, and directed the Longhorns to 11–0 and 14–0 records in the 1914 and 1915 seasons, respectively, as well as the inaugural Southwest Conference championship during the latter season. Baxter, the 1980 Southwest Conference Player of the Year,[110] finished his UT career as the then-all-time school leader in both scoring and rebounding. The Longhorns would go on to lose their remaining regular-season contests against ranked opponents—to Shaquille O'Neal, Stanley Roberts, and No. In high school, Smart was a three-year starter for Oregon High School in his hometown. The 14 Longhorn players drafted in the first round from 1997 to 2019 exceed the all-time numbers of first-round picks at each Big 12 school but Kansas. [14] His Wheaton team placed second out of the three competing college basketball teams in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, the first Olympic Games featuring the young sport (although only as a demonstration sport). Durant was the unanimous national player of the year in 2007 as a true freshman, winning all 10 awards. The Longhorns currently compete in the Big 12 Conference. [67][68] Not content to play only overmatched local teams for the remainder of the nonconference slate, Gray wanted to harden his team for the season ahead, and the Longhorns next embarked upon a 10-day, 4,000-mile train trip to face Canisius in Buffalo, Long Island in New York City, and DePaul in Chicago. 6Since 1986–87 season. 2-ranked and defending national champion Louisville, 74–70, the highest-ranked opponent the Longhorns had defeated in school history. [108] Texas ended the regular season with an 18–10 overall record and a 10–6 conference record,[97] finishing third behind Texas A&M and Arkansas in SWC play. [207] By the time the Aggies hired Billy Gillispie prior to the 2004–05 season, the lopsided nature of the series—and the lack of Aggie fan interest in a program that had gone ten consecutive years without a winning season or postseason appearance under prior coaches—had long since diminished the stature of the once-heated rivalry. With Texas reeling—having started 1–2 in SWC play, and hosting no conference games in Austin for the next month—the team's goal of ending the conference championship drought was in peril. [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. 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. The Longhorns and the Cowboys play one game in Austin and one game in Stillwater each year during the regular season. Weltlich stated before the season began that his third Texas would be "vastly improved" over the previous two. [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). UT undertook extensive renovations of the facility from 2001 to 2003 at a cost of $55 million, adding, among other things, new and renovated seating, new video and sound systems, new lighting, and 28 suites. 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. [127] The 1984–85 Longhorn team would more than double the win total of the previous year's team, posting 15–13 overall and 7–9 conference records. [124] Nevertheless, even Wendlandt would leave the program after the fall semester of his senior year.[117]. The win over Eddie Sutton's Razorbacks vaulted Lemons' Longhorns to a No. The team's grave liabilities in defense and rebounding against bigger teams were never more evident that year than against defending—and soon-to-be-repeating—national champion Oklahoma A&M (later renamed Oklahoma State University) and its 7'0" All-American center, Bob "Foothills" Kurland. Minimum 600 points. In front of a strongly pro-LIU crowd of 18,453, the Longhorns upset the Blackbirds, 47–46. 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 … Texas and Arkansas each won or shared 22 SWC championships (nine more than the nearest competitor, SMU)—although Texas claimed seven of these in the years before Arkansas established its basketball program in 1924 and in the years after Arkansas left the conference. Lemons' team managed to win the two remaining regular season games as well as three of four games in the SWC Tournament—including a 76–73 victory over No. [43] Texas opened the season with a one-point win and two four-point wins over Southwestern—an opponent that had lost its previous six games against the Longhorns by an average of almost 20 points—leading to concern in the local newspapers. Gonzaga, Texas and Indiana are among the teams that climbed in the Way-Too-Early Top 25 in men's college basketball for 2020-21. Black's 1973–74 team managed to win the SWC championship outright, even with an overall record of 12–15, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, where the Longhorns fell to the Creighton Bluejays in the first round, 77–61. [134] The victory presaged little about the season to come, however, as Texas finished 14–17 overall and 7–9 in SWC contests, for its third losing season in five seasons under Weltlich. 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. As fan criticism of Weltlich began to mount, Dodds professed to be "losing no sleep over basketball at UT" and said, "I don't think there's any question that the direction Bob has taken is the right one. 12 in the post-Tournament Coaches Poll, matching the 1962–63 team for the highest end-of-season poll ranking in program history. [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. Texas surrendered an 18-point first-half lead but withstood a late CCNY rally, holding on to win, 61–59. Vic Schaefer is the new women's basketball coach at Texas, after spending the past eight seasons building a powerhouse at Mississippi State. [189][190] Originally known as the Special Events Center, the facility was renamed in 1981 to honor Erwin, who had died earlier that year. 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. [156][159] Penders' second team finished 24–9 and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year—a first in Longhorn basketball history—and for only the second time since the Tournament field expanded to 64 teams. [75] (Baylor would go on to advance to the championship game of the 1948 NCAA Tournament, where the Bears fell to Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats in the first NCAA championship game appearance for either program.) 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]. E. Metzenthin (1909–11) and Marshall Hughes (1956–59)—and each had only coached for three seasons. 9 LSU in Baton Rouge in the third game of the season, 87–79, and battled eventual SWC champion SMU closely during the conference season, falling 54–46 to the No. [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. [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. [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. 15 final ranking in the UPI Coaches' Poll. ), After posting a 13–12 overall record in 1972–73, Black's Longhorns recorded three consecutive losing seasons, each with fewer wins and more defeats than the one before. From the 1949–50 season through the 1975–76 season, Arkansas won only two SWC championships, made only a single NCAA Tournament appearance, and posted an overall record of 312–338 (.480). Buzz Williams was named the 22 nd head coach of the Texas A&M men’s basketball program on April 3, 2019. The Longhorns won a close first contest, 41–37, before being thoroughly outclassed in the second, falling 65–41. After trailing 19th-ranked Arkansas 45–27 at halftime in Austin, Texas narrowed the Razorbacks' lead to 68–66 in the final minute before Arkansas added two final points to secure the win. 135–49, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. [80][81] He finished with an overall record of 123–75 (.631) and a conference record of 73–39 (.651) as Texas head coach. In games played since the 2009 Big 12 conference tournament semifinals, Baylor holds a 15–7 edge over Texas.[5][214]. Under Hughes, the Texas basketball program reached the nadir of its existence. Smart's given name was bestowed in honor of the famous Zulu warrior. 88–91, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. 5 seed in the 1991 NCAA Tournament, and the Longhorns would advance from the first round for the third consecutive year before falling 84–76 to fourth-seeded St. John's in the second round, which made 61 percent of its shots—and 71.4 percent of its first-half shots—while holding Texas to just 40 percent in field-goal percentage.[168][169]. 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. The Longhorns' 15 losses in the conference regular season came by an average of 22.5 points. Thirteen Texas players have received first-team All-America honors in 14 seasons, with one Longhorn player having been selected as a first-team All-American twice. He performed quite well in the first season, becoming the first Canadian ever to earn All-Rookie team honors in the NBA. After a 35-point loss to No. Shaka Smart is starting his sixth season as the basketball coach for the Texas Longhorns and 12th season overall. Smart described his "havoc" defensive philosophy during his introductory press conference as, "We are going to wreak havoc on our opponent's psyche and their plan of attack." [177] The stadium opened in 1887. 9 ranked 2020 basketball recruit, Greg Brown III, … In his first season at the helm, Williams reinvigorated the program as the Aggies shattered preseason expectations and finished in a tie for sixth in the Southeastern Conference after being projected to finish 12th. [42] Texas stumbled to an 11–7 finish, losing four of its final six games, but managing to close the season with a win over Bible's Aggies. Smart began writing down quotes into a digital document that is now over 110 pages long. Houston was the only remaining program that had resided among the nation's elite in recent years, but the Guy Lewis era had ended six years prior, and UH had only advanced to the NCAA Tournament twice—winning no games on either occasion—since its famed "Phi Slama Jama" teams had reached three consecutive Final Fours and two national championship games from 1982 to 1984. 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. [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. Texas had finished just 9–17 two years earlier in Leon Black's last season as head coach. [244], Seventy-two Texas men's basketball players have received first-team all-conference honors on 96 occasions. This began a slow, yet cascading trend by fans and media to replace what had become Texas' winningest basketball coach. The project was shelved, but the need remained acute, and, following the 1916 season, the UT Athletic Council decided to allocate $8,500 for the construction of the temporary and rudimentary all-wood Men's Gym, which was finished for the second game of the next season. [79], The 1964–65 Longhorns tied SMU for the conference championship but lost the tiebreaker for the conference's NCAA Tournament berth and thus did not participate in postseason play. 83–90, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFESPN,_ed. [24], Professor Carl C. Taylor, also the Texas track coach, assumed basketball head coaching responsibilities for the 1913 season. In series against conference opponents since the advent of the Big 12, Texas trails only KU (which leads 27–7) and KSU (16–15). [48] Instead, Texas handed SMU its first defeat of the conference season, 33–27. 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). [100] Despite the impressive season, Texas saw its hopes of playing in the 32-team NCAA Tournament dashed in a two-point loss to Houston in the SWC Tournament Final. Point guard B. J. Tyler—a key offensive player both as a scorer and as a facilitator, having averaged 18.3 points and 6.5 assists as a sophomore in 1991–92—would miss the majority of the season. On March 25, 1928, the Men's Gym caught fire and burned to the ground. 6Since 1972–73 season. [77], Bradley's 1962–63 team again won the SWC outright and reached 20 wins for the first time since Jack Gray's 1947–48 Longhorns. With the rejuvenation of the Texas A&M basketball program under Billy Gillispie (2004–07) and Mark Turgeon (2007–11), the basketball rivalry between Texas and Texas A&M quickly intensified. He was a second-team All-Badger Conference pick as a senior and by the end of his career was the all-time assists leader at Oregon High for a career (458), season (201) and single game (20).[1]. There are 353 men's college basketball programs competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. [197], The Longhorns have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) five times. [15], Smart has been married since May 20, 2006, to Maya Smart, a professional writer and alumna of Harvard University and Northwestern University. Kansas leads the overall series 30–8 and has won 26 of the 33 contests since the Big 12 was formed. Despite playing with just seven scholarship players for the majority of the 1998–99 season—and opening the season with a 3–8 record—Barnes engineered one of the greatest midseason turnarounds in school history. No one expected this to be easy."[117]. The Pavilion is named for Dr. Denton A. Cooley, a UT alumnus, basketball letterman (1939–41), and pioneering heart surgeon. [33], Theo Bellmont hired Eugene Van Gent from Missouri in 1916 to lead the Texas football, basketball, and track programs. 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. 8 Minimum 60 attempts. [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. Texas currently leads the overall series 49–43 and holds a 30–19 lead in games played in Big 12 competition.[5][207]. 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]. 5-seeded Oklahoma in the tournament to finish the season with a 21–8 overall record and a No. Texas leads 162–90 in the overall series with Baylor. Texas leads the overall series 137–86.[221]. [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. [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. [41] Bellmont returned to his administrative responsibilities for good following the 1922 season, finishing his basketball coaching career with a 58–9 overall record; his .866 winning percentage remains the highest of any coach in program history.[10]. The Longhorns' struggles continued, as Texas fell 96–86 to No. The Longhorns played just 10 of their 27 games under Metzenthin (and only four of their final 18) on their home court, outdoor Clark Field—with its stubbornly uneven surface and total vulnerability to weather conditions[22]—being particularly ill-suited as a basketball venue. Bellmont then led Texas to its first 20-win season during his final year. 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 [120] Some players who remained publicly defended Weltlich and his methods. Special logos were placed on the uniforms to commemorate this anniversary. 89–104, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 101, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 104, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. 5Since 1961–62 season. Built for a total cost of $34 million, the building is named for former UT alumnus and Board of Regents member Frank Erwin. Texas opened with a home loss to Pacific. Texas began conference play with an upset loss to the Rice Owls before hosting the Arkansas Razorbacks for two games in Austin. [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 second game the following night proceeded more in line with expectations, with Kansas winning handily, 49–35. Offensively, Smart-coached teams played uptempo, push the ball after misses, and run a weave-heavy motion offense. [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. 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. Prior to the beginning of the season, sportswriter Gene Wojciechowski labeled the 1993–94 Longhorns a Final Four candidate, opining that Tyler, Burditt, and Terrence Rencher were the three best players in the SWC. 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament and defeated Western Kentucky by a score of 91–77 to advance to a second-round contest against third-seeded Michigan, national runner-up the preceding two years. Durant's 156 total points during the Olympic tournament set a record for most points scored by an American basketball player in Olympic competition, surpassing the record previously set by Spencer Haywood in the 1968 Olympics by 11 points. The Longhorns were also generally more competitive in their many defeats, with their 13 SWC losses coming by an average of 15.0 points, for a one-third reduction in the average margin of defeat from the previous season. [17] Texas traveled to Waco two weeks later for a three-game series with the Bears (also in their first year) and won all three games behind the play of Mainland. 8 Minimum 100 attempts. 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. Texas defeated Rice in the SWC Tournament before losing to Houston in the semifinals to end the season. 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. With a nine-game conference winning streak, Texas had finished at 10–2 in SWC play to claim sole possession of the SWC championship. 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. [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. After having lost four of five games, Texas posted an 8–3 record in its final 11 contests to finish with a respectable mark of 16–7 and a third-place conference finish, significantly exceeding preseason expectations for the undersized 1945–46 team. The Longhorns, however, saw their season end at the hands of the USC Trojans in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Billy Tubbs' Sooners revealed the distance that remained between Texas and college basketball's elite teams, building a 63–37 halftime lead en route to an easy 124–95 win. Seven Longhorns have received consensus first-team All-America honors, and three others have received consensus second-team All-America honors. 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. 7 Since 1979–80 season. The official Men's Basketball Coach List for the University of North Texas Mean Green The Longhorns' on-court success—in combination with Penders' appealing, fast-tempo brand of basketball and his tireless promotion of the Texas program—produced a rise in average home attendance from the prior season of almost 149 percent (from 4,028 to 10,011), the largest such increase in NCAA Division I basketball for the 1988–89 season.[138][158]. While his teams' records and performance had declined since the 1977–78 season, Lemons was not thought to be in danger of losing his job as he entered the 1981–82 season, the first year for new Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds and Lemons' last at Texas. 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."[171][172]. All records are current as of the end of the 2014–15 season.[289]. [209][210][211] Under Rick Barnes, the Longhorns emerged as Kansas's most consistent competition for Big 12 Conference supremacy. [3], The Longhorns have won 27 total conference championships in men's basketball and have made 34 total appearances in the NCAA Tournament (11th-most appearances all time, with a 35–37 overall record),[4] reaching the NCAA Final Four three times (1943, 1947, 2003) and the NCAA Regional Finals (Elite Eight) seven times.       Conference regular season and conference tournament champion 4 seed and a bye to the second round in the 1979 NCAA Tournament. [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. As the son of a basketball coach, Johnson was taught the fundamentals of basketball and instilled with the values of perseverance, dedication, and teamwork. [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. 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. [8] At the conclusion of the 1912–13 academic year, the UT's Cactus yearbook declared, "Basketball is no longer a minor sport at the University of Texas. Must have played in more than half of season's games. [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 18–3 and tied at 8–2 in conference play with the preseason conference favorite Rice Owls—a team that the Longhorns had defeated on Rice's home court earlier in the season, 50–46. [230][231][232][233][234][235][236][237] Durant was the first freshman ever to win any of the National Player of the Year awards. 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. 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. [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. 3 Kansas", "Budding rivalry: Kansas, Texas to collide Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse", "Bohls: Is Texas-Baylor becoming the new Texas-Texas A&M rivalry? 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. Smart began his coaching career in 1999 as an assistant at California University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned a master's degree. Skip To Main Content. [126] Nonetheless, the 1983–84 season saw a number of particularly lopsided defeats, with a 103–72 loss to SMU and a 74–47 loss to Texas Tech representing what remain the third- and ninth-worst home losses in program history. [57] Despite losses of coaches and players that were projected as insurmountable hardships, Texas defied expectations, winning 13 of its first 16 games. The Longhorns would defeat Steve Fisher's Michigan Wolverines, 76–74, and fall to a Tournament-bound Arizona State team, 89–82, before beginning conference play. 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 5–0 in conference play. [18] The Longhorns ultimately won seven of the eight games scheduled in the basketball program's inaugural season. 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. We've just been trying to work it out together. [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. The scheduled included the school's first-ever basketball game in China - a 77-71 loss to Washington. 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. After an easy 100–88 win over the No. Texas was selected as the poll's national champion for the 1932–33 season.[205]. Mays and Blanks having been selected in the first round of the 1990 NBA draft, the Longhorns entered the 1990–91 season without two-thirds of the Elite Eight team's "BMW scoring machine." [188] The Erwin Center is located at the southeastern corner of the UT central campus and is bounded on the east by Interstate 35. The Rams were one of the last four teams invited, and were placed in the First Four against USC for a spot in the main 64-team tournament bracket. 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. Despite not securing the automatic bid, VCU earned an at-large bid to the Southwest region of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. The Longhorns finished the season ranked No. 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. The Texas men's basketball program began in 1906 under the direction of Scotland native Magnus Mainland, a graduate engineering student and lineman for the Texas football team who organized, coached, and played on the University's first varsity basketball team. In its final years, the facility held 20,000 spectators. 2 overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the former Seattle SuperSonics, and was the 2014 NBA Most Valuable Player with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He was dismissed following the 1955–56 season after his final two teams produced a combined record of 16–32—easily the worst two-year period in the history of Longhorn basketball to that point. Not much change was expected, but turbulence within the Texas athletic department ensued following Dodds' retirement in 2013. Penders finished as the then-winningest coach (by win total) in program history, with an overall record of 208–110 (.654). An 88–71 nationally televised win over South Carolina the following week moved Texas to No. After opening with a win over Florida in Gainesville, Texas fell to No. While the departure of Arkansas would hasten the demise of the SWC altogether in the longer term, it immediately consigned the conference—one not regarded as a significant player in college basketball for several decades—to virtual irrelevance in the college basketball landscape. [118] Lemons remained a popular figure among fans, but his support among administrators and powerful donors had dissipated. 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. Texas scored five points to take a 54–53 lead with seconds remaining, but OU scored on a 40-foot shot as time expired to deafeat the Longhorns, 55–54. [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. Walker led Texas to an 18–2 overall record and 10–2 conference record during his second season. The individual honors, awards, and accomplishments listed in the succeeding subsections are aggregated by player in the following table. [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 42–40 to advance to the Final Four for the second time, where they would face Oklahoma. Of these, 19 played at Texas under Rick Barnes. 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. ", "Seven ejected as players scuffle in Texas' upset of Baylor", "2016–17 Arkansas Razorbacks Basketball Media Guide", "Men's Athletics retires nine jersey numbers", "Sporting News Player of the Year Winners", "Texas' T.J. Ford Named 2003 Naismith Player of the Year", "Texas' Ford Drives Off With Wooden Award", "Sporting News college basketball Players of the Year, 1943-present", "Kevin Durant Wins 2007 John R. 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[54], With demand for tickets outstripping the seating capacity of Gregory Gym, calls began to grow louder for the construction of a new arena. 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. Texas won four of its last six regular season games, including a 76-63 win over a top-five Oklahoma team in Austin,[174] but lost in the first round of the Big 12 Conference Tournament to Baylor, 75-61. His oratory eloquence landed him an open job offer from the head of the UT English Department. Barnes guided Texas to 16 NCAA Tournament appearances in his 17 seasons with the program,[10] including a school-record 14 consecutive appearances (1999–2012), as well as fifteen 20-win seasons overall and a school-best 13 consecutive 20-win seasons (2000–12).[5][8]. 3 Mustangs in Austin and 64–60 to No. 7 and eventual national champion North Carolina Tar Heels, 104–68. [26][180] Basketball goals were mounted on the balcony and in front of the stage, boundary lines were drawn on the double-layer pine floor, and bleachers were erected on each side of the diminutive court, bringing seating capacity to roughly 350 people, including spectators in the balcony and on the stage. 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. Smart's teams at VCU played an upbeat style of basketball known as "havoc." [161] Mays finished the season as the Southwest Conference's all-time leading scorer, with 2,279 career points. 3 Minimum 200 attempts. In the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Longhorns lost, as a half-court shot off the backboard lifted Northern Iowa to a 75-72 win.[175]. Allen declared for the NBA Draft after the season, and the Brooklyn Nets selected him with the 22nd pick of the first round. With several players from the 1917 team having left for military service, the 1918 Longhorn basketball team had only one returning player in sophomore Al DeViney. Excepting two strong seasons—one particularly noteworthy—Texas maintained this level of relatively unremarkable performance in basketball for the better part of the next decade. 2 in both polls on Dec. 2, 2002) and received its first No. [11], The 1979–80 Texas Longhorns returned only one starter, forward Ron Baxter. Even so, Texas received a preseason AP ranking of No. The Longhorns' season came to a close with a 74–69 second-round loss at the hands of the Duke Blue Devils. [10] Black coached for nine seasons, only twice finishing with a winning record.[8]. In a rematch of the previous season's national third-place game, Texas faced the CCNY Beavers in Madison Square Garden. Romney's tenure took an early inauspicious turn when the Longhorns lost at home to Oklahoma A&M, 28–27, after Romney called his top players to the bench with a 14-point lead and nine minutes remaining. Texas won its final game in Maui against Notre Dame before facing Oklahoma in Austin. 6 Since 1979–80 season. Lemons finished with an overall record of 110–63 (.636) and a conference record of 58–38 (.604) as Texas head coach. [19], Smart is a supporter of former President Barack Obama, for whom he campaigned in Florida in 2008 and Virginia in 2012. 3 Since 1979–80 season. In 2002, Texas advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen for the first time since the 1996–97 season, and for only the third time since the expansion of the tournament to 64 participants in 1985. [97] After another blowout road loss to Texas Tech, Texas regrouped to win three straight road games and 12 of its next 13 games, including a three-point upset of 10th-ranked Arkansas in Fayetteville, a 23-point blowout of Shelby Metcalf's No.
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