Texas Basketball: The Top 50 Players in School HistoryTHAD NOVAKMAY 1, 2012Texas basketball is in a golden age as a program, having extended its school-record run to 13 straight NCAA Tournament appearances. That streak has been led by many of the most memorable players in the history of a program whose track record for producing…

 Remembering Lemons, Texas’ NIT title-winning team 40 years later ByLARRY CARLSON Apr 1, 2018 Long before Longhorn basketball backers swooned for Tom Penders’ ” BMW Ultimate Scoring Machine” of Blanks, Mays and Wright, before Rick Barnes and KD, a coach with a sharp tongue and a star player with a soft middle put their stamp on hoops…

Information from Wikipedia concerning Texas Longhorns men’s basketball program follows: The University of Texas began competition in men’s basketball in 1906.  As of 2018, the Longhorns rank 17th in total victories among all NCAA Division I college basketball programs with 33 appearances in the NCAA tournament, 3 visits to the final 4 (1943, 1947, 2002),…

 As 1973 rolled around, I became the UT Women’s Basketball coach and our mutually beneficial relationship continued and accelerated.  Wow!  To say that we were on a shoestring budget would be an understatement.  Our salvation was Leon Black.  Let’s be clear, no money or funds changed hands.  Yet, Leon Black’s generosity and benevolence were worth…

  A battle between Abe and Eddie led to a tirade for the ages ByLARRY CARLSON Jun 7, 2020 When Eddie Sutton passed away Memorial Day weekend he took an oversized piece of Longhorn sports lore with him. Sutton, after a long, long wait, was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2020 class…