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Texas Beats OU in Amazing Comeback

Unlike about half of the Erwin Center crowd last night, I didn't bail on the Texas-OU basketball game when the Horns fell behind 67-45 with just over 7 minutes to go. But I did turn the sound off to work on other things. Every once in a while I'd peek at the game, but OU kept a pretty commanding lead until Texas made the score an age group, 60-69. Read More | Comment »

10:31PM Wed. Feb. 27, Michael Corcoran

Kansas Gives Texas Lesson In Humiliation

Though they may seem to mean the same thing, there’s a difference between embarrassment and humiliation. Embarrassment is trailing 60-30 and having the opposing team’s star player do a 360 dunk on you. Humiliation is having the other coach’s son- Kansas walk on Tyler Self- double his season point total with a driving bucket, plus one. Read More | Comment »

10:56AM Sun. Feb. 17, Michael Corcoran

Texas Beats Iowa State in Kabongo's Return

Don't know if any team has won to improve its record to 11-13 in such high drama. This Longhorns basketball team has tested positive for NIT- they've got as much chance making the NCAA tourney as Manti Te'o going on a blind date- but on Wednesday night they fought hard against an Iowa State team that thrashed them earlier in the season and came out of it with Read More | Comment »

9:36PM Wed. Feb. 13, Michael Corcoran

Kabongo Suspension Reduced On Appeal to 23 Games

Myck Kabongo will be wearing a Longhorns jersey this season after all. The sophomore point guard, a projected NBA draftee and standout for most creative spelling of the name "Mike," Kabongo had his suspension for accepting airfare and then being untruthful about it reduced to 23 games, including the 11 he's already sat out. Read More | Comment »

11:03PM Fri. Dec. 21, 2012, Michael Corcoran

Nothing Could Be Finah: Texas Trounces Tarheels

The Texas Longhorns hoopsters recorded their first quality win of the season Wednesday, beating North Carolina (No. 23) 85-67 at the Erwin Center. Leading by 19 points early in the game, the Horns withstood a comeback from the Tarheels, who closed the lead to 4 with just over 7 minutes to play. Read More | Comment »

10:37PM Wed. Dec. 19, 2012, Michael Corcoran

Third Fiddle Horns Beat Texas State by 12

Longhorns basketball is used to being overshadowed by UT football, but on Saturday night it was women’s volleyball that got most of the attention. The lady spikers swept Oregon to win the first v-ball national championship for Texas in 25 years. Meanwhile, the men’s basketball team improved its record to 6-4 with a boring ass 75-63 win Read More | Comment »

10:42PM Sat. Dec. 15, 2012, Michael Corcoran

Horns Men's Basketball Team Out Snipe Hunting

On an early episode of King of The Hill titled “The Order of the Straight Arrow,” Hank and the fellas shepherd Bobby’s scout troop on a “rite of passage” excursion into the great outdoors. But the trip is not a good-natured one: as the men collude to exploit the children’s naivety and make fools of them via a gauntlet of phony Native American rituals. Read More | Comment »

3:58PM Fri. Feb. 24, 2012, Russ Espinoza

If the Horns Basketball Season Ended Today …

Let’s put some more mileage on that overwrought sports hypothetical: If the season ended today … Read More | Comment »

1:06PM Thu. Feb. 9, 2012, Russ Espinoza

Are the Horns Tourney Bound?

Where were you the last time Texas failed to make the Big Dance? Bill Clinton was in the Oval Office – with Monica: last century. Read More | Comment »

6:29PM Mon. Jan. 23, 2012, Russ Espinoza

Five-Second Violated

The final, fatal 14.5 seconds of Texas’ controversial 69-70 loss to Arizona on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament prompted the Wildcats’ hometown paper – the Tucson Citizen – to issue a painfully evocative headline: “Arizona in the NCAAs: It’s a charmed life.” Read More | Comment »

3:10PM Thu. Mar. 24, 2011, Russ Espinoza

Longhorn Fans Expect the Unexpected

Bookended by Fun Fun Fun and South by Southwest, Texas’ redeemed 2010-11 regular season ended with an emphatic 60-54 sigh of relief against the bubbly Baylor Bears on Saturday night in Waco. Read More | Comment »

2:49PM Mon. Mar. 7, 2011, Russ Espinoza

When Is a Loss a Good Thing?

The package of upsets that rearranged the NCAA’s Top 5 last week summoned that timeless, annual question: “Is losing a game before the NCAA tourney a good thing?” Previously top-ranked and undefeated Ohio State was the first to field it after their 67-70 loss at Wisconsin on Feb. 12. “We don’t like to lose,” Ohio State freshman Jared Sullinger said. Read More | Comment »

1:03PM Tue. Feb. 22, 2011, Russ Espinoza

Title Contenders?

The No. 3 ranked Longhorns are all the rage on the national scene since going unblemished and looking untouchable against the Big 12’s beefiest. The terrain entering the 12-day gauntlet of No. 22 Texas A&M, No. 2 Kansas, and No. 19 Missouri looked shaky, with a Kansas-sized reality-check readied on Jan. 22 to sour the outlook of Texas players and fans alike. Read More | Comment »

4:49PM Tue. Feb. 8, 2011, Russ Espinoza

A Steady Rise to the Top 10

The Longhorns’ men's basketball team steadfast march to their current No. 7 AP ranking began in virtual obscurity when they were (just barely) ranked No. 25 in the preseason ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and were snubbed outright by the AP Top 25 at season's beginning. Read More | Comment »

12:37PM Fri. Jan. 28, 2011, Russ Espinoza

Perilous Road Ahead for UT Men's B-Ball

Though UT’s Jan. 8 home loss to Kemba Walker and No. 10 UConn was hard to digest, the (14-3) Horns have since inflicted their residual anger on the Big 12’s little sisters of the poor. Their back-to-back stampedes of Texas Tech and Oklahoma have further demonstrated that this year’s team is too good and too resilient to feel sorry for themselves. Read More | Comment »

5:43PM Mon. Jan. 17, 2011, Mark Fagan

Longhorn Basketball Spars With Huskies

The recent tales of UT and UConn entering Saturday afternoon’s heavyweight bout at the Erwin Center are about as polarized as it gets. The Longhorns haven’t incurred a loss for more than a month – a 73-56 loss at USC on Dec. 5 – and have impressively cleared high hurdles in North Carolina and East Lansing, Mich., in the process. Read More | Comment »

2:10PM Thu. Jan. 6, 2011, Russ Espinoza

UT Basketball on a Major Roll

Tom Izzo is one of the most venerated figures in college basketball, and when a man of his stature praises another team in the aftermath of a dispiriting home loss, you know it’s a painful, but genuine, declaration. “We got beat by a better team,” Izzo said, following No. 12 Michigan State’s demoralizing 67-55 home loss to No. 18 UT on Wednesday night. Read More | Comment »

2:01PM Fri. Dec. 24, 2010, Russ Espinoza

Loss to Trojans, Trouncing of Bobcats

If anything positive can be extracted from the Longhorns men's basketball deflated showing against USC in Los Angeles last week, it was the golden opportunity to redeem themselves six days later at home versus neighboring Texas State. UT remained in the Top 25 by the skin of their teeth following their upset by the unranked Trojans. Read More | Comment »

1:14PM Mon. Dec. 13, 2010, Russ Espinoza

Season Heats Up for UT Basketball

As an unranked – and overlooked – team in the preseason Top 25 featuring four new starters, the Longhorns are a Manhattan eyelash away from being undefeated as they prepare to embark on a five-week stretch dispersed with iconic programs (North Carolina, Michigan State, Connecticut) and apparent doormats alike. Read More | Comment »

4:02PM Fri. Dec. 3, 2010, Russ Espinoza

UT to Play First Basketball Game in Cowboys Stadium

ESPN will broadcast the University of Texas men's basketball game vs. North Carolina Sat., Dec. 19, at 1pm. This will be the first basketball game to be played in the new Cowboys Stadium. Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale, and Doris Burke will comment on the action. Since the Tar Heels are coached by a man named Roy Williams, my money is on the Horns. Read More | Comment »

3:18PM Mon. Dec. 14, 2009, Mark Fagan

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