[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. 2 Since 1972–73 season. In the following two seasons, Bradley's Texas teams posted overall records of 12–12 and 14–10. The primary requirement for the retirement of a UT student-athlete's number is that the individual have won a widely recognized National Player of the Year award. At 21–8, Texas was awarded a 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. Privately, though, Dodds had faced pressure from important administrators and boosters to dismiss the popular Lemons ever since he had arrived at Texas the prior autumn. [67] Texas defeated Canisius 52–46 before traveling to New York for the most-anticipated contest of the trip, the game in Madison Square Garden against Clair Bee's LIU Blackbirds, who were averaging 90 points per game and had recently defeated defending national champion Oklahoma A&M. 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. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Texas at Austin. 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. Texas leads the overall series 137–86.[221]. [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. The Rams lost to Butler 70-62 in the semifinal game. 8 Minimum 100 attempts. 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. 93–94, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 71, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. [108] LaSalle Thompson, 6'10" center and future Longhorn great, joined the program as a freshman. 103 Basketball jobs available in Texas on Indeed.com. [179], Head coach Carl C. Taylor, seeking an indoor home venue for the basketball team, reached an agreement with the Ben Hur Temple in downtown Austin to rent the building's theater for basketball games and five hours of practice weekly for the 1913 season for $75. 7 Cougars in Houston and by the same margin to 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. 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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. [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. 24. The Longhorns finished 20–4 overall and 14–4 in conference play in 1922. [8] Only three NCAA schools—California, Navy, and Wisconsin—achieved higher winning percentages for that decade.[20]. The 2003 Longhorn basketball team matched the school record for most basketball victories in a season with their 26–7 mark and advanced to the NCAA Tournament Final Four round for the first time in 56 years, and for the third time in school history. [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. New UT Athletic Director Steve Patterson set out to dramatically change the entire Longhorn program, with the resignation of popular football coach Mack Brown following the 2013 football season. The Longhorns opened a new season of SWC play with a road win over TCU. [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. 15 Texas A&M Aggies in Austin, and an eight-point win over the 11th-ranked Aggies three weeks later in College Station. 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. 2 Since 1972–73 season. 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. [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.) [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. 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. Against Rhode Island, Travis Mays surpassed Ron Baxter's career scoring total to become the then-leading scorer in UT history. 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. Fred Walker (1927–31) coached the Longhorns following E.J. 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. [15], Smart has been married since May 20, 2006, to Maya Smart, a professional writer and alumna of Harvard University and Northwestern University. [201], Texas has been ranked in at least one of the final AP or Coaches Polls in 19 seasons since their introduction prior to the 1948–49 and 1950–51 seasons, respectively. [188] The Longhorns won their first 25 games in the Erwin Center before falling to Arkansas in February 1979.[97]. Texas fell to No. The official Men's Basketball page for the Texas A&M University Aggies. Only one of the four players signed in the 1981 class—6'9" forward Mike Wacker—was considered a coveted prospect. 5 in the AP Poll, the then-highest ranking in program history. 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]. [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. 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. 5-seeded Oklahoma in the tournament to finish the season with a 21–8 overall record and a No. Texas and Texas Tech have played at least twice yearly since the 1957–58 season. [5][50], Texas currently leads the overall series 86–57 and has won 41 of the 49 contests since the formation of the Big 12. From the 1999–2000 season through the 2004–05 season, at least one of the two teams was ranked in 13 of 14 total contests, and both teams were ranked at the time of eight of the 14 meetings. [154] Texas defeated the OSU Cowboys 85–84 in the first contest behind 32 points from sophomore guard Joey Wright and two late free throws from junior guard Lance Blanks,[155] who had transferred from Virginia. [10] The Longhorns and Razorbacks split their conference series during this period, with each winning 29 games. 20 ranking in the final AP Poll. 12 in the Coaches Poll. Bellmont selected football assistant coach Milton Romney as the next head basketball coach—then still an unpaid position. 90–91, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 154, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 157, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 96, NCAA 2015 Men's Basketball Record Book, pp. 2 Since 1949–50 season. Apply to Basketball Coach, Basketball Official, Youth Coordinator and more! 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 practice facility also includes a locker room with a players' lounge, an instructional film theater, a 4,100-square-foot strength and conditioning area, an athletic training and hydrotherapy area, an academic resource and activity center, and a coaches' lounge and locker room. Texas also achieved its first victory over an NCAA Tournament-bound team under Weltlich, defeating Pac-10 Conference champion Southern California in the final game of the regular season, 71–70. [183] While the loss of the Men's Gym advanced the timeline for the construction of a new gymnasium for men's basketball, the team would be left without an on-campus home for the following two seasons, playing instead in the gymnasiums of the Texas School for the Deaf and Austin High School before moving into the new Gregory Gymnasium for the 1930–31 season.[179][184][185]. [96] After a one-point loss in the opening game against Southern California in Los Angeles, Texas inaugurated the $37-million, 16,231-seat Special Events Center with an 83–76 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners, the first of eight straight wins. [36], Following Van Gent's single year as head coach, Roy Henderson returned to coach Texas for two additional seasons. 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. [190][191], The master plan released in 2013 for the University's new Dell Medical School indicated that the Erwin Center would be demolished in a later phase of construction within 6-15 years. 8 Connecticut in Austin, 94–77; unranked UTEP in El Paso, 92–88; unranked LSU in New Orleans by a score of 84–83; and unranked Rhode Island in Providence by a score of 92–79. Eleven Longhorn players currently play in the NBA. 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 Not much change was expected, but turbulence within the Texas athletic department ensued following Dodds' retirement in 2013. Texas played respectably in two losses to eventual second-consecutive national runner-up Houston, losing by 11 to the No. Texas men's basketball leads the all-time series against all former Big 12 Conference opponents but Missouri (which leads 13–12). 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. [112] Nonetheless, just as Lemons began to face notable fan frustration and criticism for the first time at Texas, his team began an unexpected run of late-season success. [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. 10Since 1979–80 season. 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. 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. Abrams. During the 2009 recruiting cycle, Texas acquired top-tier prospects Avery Bradley and Jordan Hamilton. [130][131] Texas opened conference play with four consecutive wins, including its first win over Arkansas under Weltlich, before falling 55–54 to the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station. [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. 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]. 135–49, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. [49][51] Continuing on to Philadelphia, Texas fell 47–37 to Temple, winners of the first National Invitation Tournament two years prior. 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. 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. [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. [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. 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. 25 Texas overwhelms No. 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. [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. Stewart's dismissal, producing a 51–30 combined record during his four-year stint as head coach. 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. Texas won only a single SWC Championship during the next nine seasons—in the exceptional 22–1 season of 1932–33, for which the Longhorns were also retroactively awarded the Premo-Porretta Power Poll national championship (presently unclaimed by UT).[45]. 2 Since 1949–50 season. After his teams extended the UT winning streak to 28 games, Bellmont stepped away from coaching to focus on his work as athletic director and appointed Roy Henderson to the still-unpaid Texas basketball head coaching position. [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). Martin, Cox, and Madsen were dubbed the "Mighty Mice. After the new coach's first season, junior forward Bill Wendlandt commented that he believed he had gained mental discipline that he had previously lacked. Assistant coach Eric Ely joins the Lady Raider basketball program after 10 years at Oregon State, ... Texas Tech Red Raiders. The Matadors' first head coach, Grady Higginbotham, started and led the program until Victor Payne replaced him after two seasons. After his first two teams combined for a 24–21 record, Gray's 1938–39 team posted a 19–6 overall mark and won the Southwest Conference championship outright for UT's first basketball conference title in six years. 7Since 1978–79 season. [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. 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. Kansas leads the overall series 30–8 and has won 26 of the 33 contests since the Big 12 was formed. [138][139][140][141], Hired from the University of Rhode Island on April 6, 1988 to replace Weltlich as the Texas head coach, Tom Penders rapidly revitalized the moribund Longhorn basketball program. [8] Lemons was less than sanguine about the Longhorns' prospects for the 1976–77 season. Texas holds a winning record against all former Big 12 members in games played in Big 12 competition. 2-seeded Purdue Boilermakers, 73–72, to advance to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in 18 seasons. [62] Little was expected of the Longhorns that season, but Texas managed to win its first seven games. [5][213], Texas and Kansas played one game during the regular season until the 2011–12 season, when the two schools began meeting twice per year. 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. 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. Smart grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. Skip To … The win over Eddie Sutton's Razorbacks vaulted Lemons' Longhorns to a No. [115] The ousted head coach did not leave quietly, commenting that he wanted a glass-bottomed car so that he could see Dodds' face as he ran him over, and adding, "I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town." 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 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. Conference regular season champion As of June 21, 2019, 45 Longhorn men's basketball players have been selected in the NBA Draft in the history of the program. 3 Since 1979–80 season. [117] Only one player that Lemons recruited to Austin graduated during his tenure. [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. Smart's second season began with forward Larry Sanders declaring for the 2010 NBA Draft after his junior season. 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. In front of a strongly pro-LIU crowd of 18,453, the Longhorns upset the Blackbirds, 47–46. Smart began writing down quotes into a digital document that is now over 110 pages long. [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. With the formation of the Big 12 Conference in 1996, the Oklahoma Sooners became the Longhorns' main rival in basketball. Accordingly, expectations for the 1942–43 Longhorns were low. 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. 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. 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. [111], The 1980–81 Longhorn team carried little in the way of preseason expectations of success. He was then an assistant at the University of Akron for three years, Clemson for two, and Florida for one. [84] Black finished with an overall record of 106–121 (.467) and a record of 63–65 (.492) in conference play. Penders finished as the then-winningest coach (by win total) in program history, with an overall record of 208–110 (.654). [119] Texas players petitioned in support of Barry Dowd, a long-time Lemons assistant, for the vacant coaching position, but Dodds and UT administrators were intent on severing all connections to the Lemons era. [178], The Texas Longhorns men's basketball team moved indoors to the new Men's Gym in 1917. This began a slow, yet cascading trend by fans and media to replace what had become Texas' winningest basketball coach. [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. [2][19][20][21] Vining was supported in his efforts by the UT student newspaper, The Daily Texan, which consistently advocated for the reinstatement of basketball—in part because the game was viewed as good physical training for football players in the latter sport's offseason. 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. 113–18, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 90, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. The Longhorns struggled at times in the season after center Cameron Ridley went down with an injured foot[173] that caused him to miss all of conference play, returning for a brief stint in the conference tournament and in Texas' NCAA tournament game. In its final years, the facility held 20,000 spectators. Three Longhorn men's basketball players have had their Texas jersey numbers retired: Slater Martin, T. J. Ford, and Kevin Durant. Black opened with three losing seasons and one non-winning season before his 1971–72 team finished 19–9, won a share of the conference championship, and reached the 1972 NCAA Tournament. No specific plans for basketball took shape at UT, but discussions of a larger gym or arena continued over the next three years. [17], From 1910 through 1919, Texas recorded an overall winning percentage of .789. Prolonged inclement weather delayed the completion of Gregory Gymnasium, originally intended to debut in the 1929–30 season with the Southwest Conference opening home game against Baylor, and, consequently, the Longhorns had to play home games away from campus for the entirety of the season. "[67] Though the return of Hargis helped, the Longhorns were again a team not possessed of great size, but they did possess great speed and scoring ability. 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. The official Men's Basketball Coach List for the Texas Tech University Red Raiders. Following a 63–53 win over Princeton in the first game in a four-team tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Longhorns suffered one of the most lopsided losses in school history to Dean Smith's No. 4Since 1932–33 season. [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. Texas pushed the Sooners to overtime and led 90–89 with 28 seconds remaining, but an OU steal and two subsequent scores led the Sooners to a 93–92 win. 7Since 1960–61 season. [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. Mack, a sophomore guard, left the team and transferred to Alabama. Lemons finished with an overall record of 110–63 (.636) and a conference record of 58–38 (.604) as Texas head coach. In front of more than 8,000 fans at Gregory Gym, Arkansas led for most of the first game before Slater Martin led a late surge to secure the win and the outright conference championship for Texas, 49–44. In high school, Smart was a three-year starter for Oregon High School in his hometown. 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. 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. 7-seed Georgia Bulldogs, the Longhorns upset Gene Keady's No. E. Metzenthin (1909–11) and Marshall Hughes (1956–59)—and each had only coached for three seasons. 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). [177] The stadium opened in 1887. 7 and eventual national champion North Carolina Tar Heels, 104–68. 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. [42] The protracted selection of E. J. 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. Despite having won both regular season games against the Cougars, the Longhorns were uncompetitive in a 91–72 loss in their third contest. 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. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament. 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. 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. 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][11] The team is currently led by fourth-year head coach Shaka Smart. This all ended when he arrived in Austin. [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. 's Brightest Star", http://www.marfdrat.net/2011/03/29/shaka-smart-as-only-a-brother-could-know-him/#.T2dHNHn63ch, Illinois Fighting Illini targeting VCU Rams coach Shaka Smart, according to source - ESPN Chicago, "EXCLUSIVE: Coach Smart Is Going To Be a Father", "Shaka Smart, VCU: What it's like being related to the hottest name in March Madness Slate Magazine", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shaka_Smart&oldid=984055184, California Vulcans men's basketball coaches, College men's basketball head coaches in the United States, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 October 2020, at 22:00. Durant was the unanimous national player of the year in 2007 as a true freshman, winning all 10 awards. 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. 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. [13] He graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon with a degree in history, researching and writing on issues related to race and the Great Migration. Built for a total cost of $8,500, the all-wood Men's Gym measured 115' by 105' and 23' high and featured a pinewood floor, an electric scoreboard, and seating for 2,500 spectators. From the inception of the Big 12 through February 18, 2018, Texas has produced a 223–139 (.616) mark against conference competition during the regular season, trailing only Kansas's record of 299–63 (.826). 2-ranked and defending national champion Louisville, 74–70, the highest-ranked opponent the Longhorns had defeated in school history. 7 Since 1979–80 season. 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 5Since 1960–61 season. Texas leads 162–90 in the overall series with Baylor. The four senior starters on the 2004 team graduated as the winningest class in school history (98 wins) to that point. The Longhorns stumbled to a 10–14 overall record with two conference games remaining. [33], Theo Bellmont hired Eugene Van Gent from Missouri in 1916 to lead the Texas football, basketball, and track programs. Five Longhorn teams were ranked among the top-ten teams in their respective years, and three Texas teams received top-three rankings. 6Since 1986–87 season. 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." [283][284], Kevin Durant was the leading scorer on the United States men's basketball team that won the gold medal in the 2012 Olympics. 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. Texas next traveled to Chicago to face the DePaul Blue Demons of Ray Meyer, whose team had won the NIT two years earlier, and won the final game of their road trip in a rout, 61–43. 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 … 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. The 2009 graduating class finished with 109 wins, besting the 2006 class's mark of 101 wins to become what remains the winningest class in school history. On March 9, eight days after the Longhorns' final game, DeLoss Dodds announced Abe Lemons' firing. 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). [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. The Longhorns drew the Tournament co-favorite Washington Huskies for their first game. Texas Tech has fired the head coach and assistant coach of its women's basketball team, after a scathing report chronicling claims of physical, mental and … [5][6] As of the end of the 2017–18 season, Texas ranks sixth among all Division I men's basketball programs for total NCAA Tournament games won without having won the national championship (35), trailing Kansas State (37), Notre Dame (38), Purdue (39), Illinois (40), and Oklahoma (41). [8] After Metzenthin relinquished coaching duties following the 1911 season in order to serve as UT Athletic Council chairman (precursor to the athletic director position), former Texas track coach J. Burton Rix—coaching without financial compensation, just as had his two predecessors—led Texas to a 5–1 record in his single season as head coach (1912). [63] Longhorn basketball had grown significantly in popularity under Gray and Gilstrap's guidance. 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. Henderson's team recorded Texas' third consecutive undefeated season in 1916 to extend the total to 40 consecutive victories. 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. 1 Minimum 250 points. Texas A&M Athletics - Home of the 12th Man Main Navigation Menu. 4 Minimum 450 rebounds. Gilstrap explained, "There were a lot of things I didn't know about the system, and the boys realized that. Of these, 19 played at Texas under Rick Barnes. The Longhorns had won 18 of the previous 21 contests against the Aggies, dating back to the 1987–88 season. The Athletics Council revived the program in 1909, owing in large part to the efforts of Longhorn player Morgan Vining, who campaigned to raise student interest in the game. 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]. Texas A&M head coach Buzz Williams, left, talks to a game official during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against New Orleans on … In the 2012–13 season, Barnes' Longhorns finished 16–18 and missed their first NCAA tournament since 1997–98—the season prior to Barnes' arrival. 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. 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]. [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. 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. Coaching career. Texas surrendered an 18-point first-half lead but withstood a late CCNY rally, holding on to win, 61–59. 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? 8Since 1979–80 season. 4 Minimum 200 rebounds. [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. 89–90, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 141, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. Karow (1934–36) would direct Texas to a combined 31–16 record over his two years as head coach. Smart began his coaching career in 1999 as an assistant at California University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned a master's degree. Texas had finished just 9–17 two years earlier in Leon Black's last season as head coach. Longhorn football assistant coach Howard "Bully" Gilstrap was appointed to coach the team for the duration of the war.[55][56]. Penders' first team returned four starters from the previous season, and two talented transfers—Lance Blanks and Joey Wright—gained eligibility, giving Texas a starting five with three future NBA Draft picks and a fourth starter who would play in the NBA. [124] Nevertheless, even Wendlandt would leave the program after the fall semester of his senior year.[117]. Texas defeated No. [43] Texas entered the season expected to finish third or fourth in conference play behind TCU, Oklahoma A&M, and possibly Texas A&M. 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. [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. [72] Texas returned to Madison Square Garden to play the City College of New York in the national third-place game prior to the NCAA championship game between OU and Holy Cross (won by the Crusaders, 58–47). 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. 16 Connecticut in Storrs and 86–61 to Rick Pitino's Kentucky Wildcats in Maui to post a 2–4 record in its first six games. 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. Abe Lemons (1976–82) is the only Texas men's basketball coach to have received a National Coach of the Year honors. The Longhorns' struggles continued, as Texas fell 96–86 to No. [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. 6Since 1972–73 season. Buzz Williams was named the 22 nd head coach of the Texas A&M men’s basketball program on April 3, 2019. [109] The Longhorns posted a 70–61 win over St. Joseph's before falling to Southwestern Louisiana, 77–76, in the second round to finish with a 19–11 overall record. Division regular season and conference tournament champion [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]. [11], The 1979–80 Texas Longhorns returned only one starter, forward Ron Baxter. [120] Some players who remained publicly defended Weltlich and his methods. 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]. Our mission continues to embody the principles of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Shaka Dingani Smart (born April 8, 1977) is an American men's college basketball coach and former player. 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. Slater Martin is the only Longhorn men's basketball player to have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Bradley left the program for the NBA in 2010, and Hamilton, Thompson, and Joseph followed suit in 2011. LSU head coach Dale Brown described the game as his team's most difficult to date and the Texas team as sound in fundamentals. 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. The scheduled included the school's first-ever basketball game in China - a 77-71 loss to Washington. 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). 1Since 1949–50 season. 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. 2Since 1949–50 season. Bob Donewald is in his season season at Texas Tech and brings a wealth of basketball experience to the Red Raider program after coaching at the professional, international and collegiate levels. The Pavilion is named for Dr. Denton A. Cooley, a UT alumnus, basketball letterman (1939–41), and pioneering heart surgeon. 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. 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. [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. [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. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament. [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. Must have played in more than half of season's games. 15 Arkansas in the semifinal round—to avoid finishing with a losing record. Interspersed among the conference contests were games against NCAA Tournament-bound Vanderbilt, which Texas lost by a score of 94–79, and Miami (FL), which the Longhorns won easily, 123–104. 11 LSU in a neutral-site contest, 124–113; to 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. 3 Arkansas in overtime in Austin, 103–96, in a famously bitter defeat that became known in UT lore as the "Strollin' Nolan" game. As of October 23, 2019, 34 Texas players have played in the NBA in league 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. Of these 72 players, 18 have received first-team all-conference honors in two seasons, and three players have received them in three seasons. 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[113] Dodds ultimately chose 37-year-old Bob Weltlich, a former assistant coach under Bob Knight at Army and Indiana who came with Knight's recommendation, from the University of Mississippi to serve as the next Texas men's basketball head coach. [2] The Longhorns rank 18th in total victories among all NCAA Division I college basketball programs and 25th in all-time win percentage among programs with at least 60 years in Division I, with an all-time win-loss record of 1791–1088 (.622). 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. Texas lost a hard-fought contest to No. Texas was not expected to fare significantly better in two consecutive games against the towering Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville than it had against Oklahoma A&M. 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. Durant became the No. Durant's spectacular lone season at Texas resulted in his receiving unanimous National Player of the Year honors. Gray praised the Mustangs as "probably the most powerful team in the history of the school," and SMU coach Whitey Baccus confidently announced that his team would dispatch the Longhorns. [57] Despite losses of coaches and players that were projected as insurmountable hardships, Texas defied expectations, winning 13 of its first 16 games. [199] Texas has appeared in 27 of the 40 seeded Tournaments (and in 26 of the last 30). 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**. 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. During their concurrent membership in the Big 12, the Longhorns and the Aggies played two games during the regular season, with the venue alternating between the home courts of each school. The season featured the then-most anticipated intersectional matchup in school history, as Phog Allen's Kansas Jayhawks came to Austin. [39] Following the perfect 1924 season, Stewart's next three teams finished 17–8, 12–10, and 13–9. Durant also set the U.S. record for most made three-point shots in an Olympic competition with 34 (on 65 attempts). 78–80, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 84, 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, pp. [104] The Longhorns struggled early, beginning the season 7–4 and falling out of the AP rankings after a 21-point road defeat to Bill Cartwright and the San Francisco Dons. The Longhorns led 35–28 at halftime, but the Tigers recovered to win, 72–65. [157] Texas won six games in conference play by five or fewer points to finish in second place in the SWC with a 12–4 record, with two losses to Arkansas and one loss apiece to Houston and Texas A&M. The coaching staff for the Texas Tech men's basketball team wore towels on their shoulders during Wednesday's season-opening game against Northwestern State. [4][5], On January 19, 2013, Smart became the second youngest active coach to win 100 games, in a 90-63 victory over Duquesne. 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