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Reality Check

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  1. Aside from the absolute certainty that Texas will not win another game this year -- or maybe if they get really lucky end up beating Oklahoma State at home on Saturday -- the other thing I love about this forum is that these are the number of 20-win seasons Texas coaches have had dating back 50 years: Abe Lemons: 2 in six seasons (26, 21) Bob Weltlich: 0 in six seasons (closest was 19-14 in '85-'86) Tom Penders: 7 in 10 seasons (26, 25, 24, 23, 23, 23, 21) Rick Barnes: 15 in 17 seasons (31, 30, 28, 26, 25, 25, 25, 24, 24, 24, 23, 22, 20, 20, 20) Shaka Smart: 2 in six seasons (21, 20) Chris Beard: 1.5 in 1.5 seasons (22) Rodney Terry: 0.5 in one season; currently 17-10 with at least five games to go (29 total wins including Beard's 7-1 start) TOTAL: 28 in 47 seasons So suddenly we're absolutely confident that we should be tossing a coach out the door -- before the end of his first full season and in the wake of an Elite Eight run? I must have missed where Texas became Kansas, North Carolina or Duke and is entitled to reach the Sweet 16 more years than they don't.
  2. If Texas plays like it did vs. Kansas State and West Virginia and at Baylor and at Oklahoma, they will likely beat Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. I'm not sure how "regressing" is being 2-2 in the last four games -- including the biggest blowout of the conference season against a team we lost on the road to -- with road losses to a pair of Top 6 teams.
  3. Read carefully: And that's excluding Tuesday's game at a team that's 3-5 in its last eight including losses to UCF, Cincinnati and TCU. Though to address your point, Texas' last five losses have been to ranked teams, three of which were on the road. Texas Tech, on the other hand, is no longer a ranked team.
  4. You're banking that Texas finishes 1-4 with losses at home to Oklahoma State AND Oklahoma in addition to losing in the 8-9 or 7-10 game in Kansas City? Because that's the only way this team isn't making the tournament.
  5. Seeing as we're playing two teams we've beaten (Baylor at home, Oklahoma on the road) in addition to a home game against an Oklahoma State team that's 12-15, 4-10 I'd be happy to take your cash. And that's excluding Tuesday's game at a team that's 3-5 in its last eight including losses to UCF, Cincinnati and TCU.
  6. This. It's the next generation of people who thought Dean Smith would leave UNC to replace Weltlich, or that Jay Smith would depart Villanova to take over for Penders. They ignore basketball until football is over and then demand we somehow win the Big 12 every year en route to the Elite Eight. We're on track for 20 wins and a No. 8-10 seed in the NCAA Tournament in a rebuilding year that's further been saddled with Kadin Shedrick's injury That means we're getting fewer than 18 minutes per game from one of our only two players over 6-6. But yeah -- losing at Kansas like we have in all but two seasons since 1996 is somehow the barometer to determine Rodney Terry's tenure should be over at Texas. Whatever, man. Whatever. Even money says we get to 20 wins in the regular season. But people will still bitch when we lose to Houston in Kansas City and to UConn or Purdue in the Round of 32.
  7. You mean like as opposed to playing in the Astros Foundation College Classic at Minute Maid Park March 1-3 against No. 3 LSU, Texas State and No. 6 Vanderbilt?
  8. In case you care. Hell of a job by this group given that one of the five best players in the country is on our bench with a reconstructed ACL. They're in Orlando tomorrow at 11 a.m. before traveling to Norman next week to (essentially) battle for a share of the regular-season title. *Texas (25-3, 12-3 Big 12): NET 4, SOS 52 As promised over the last few weeks if they continued to win, Texas put itself in a great position and is now a No. 1 seed even faster than could have been expected. The Longhorns' last real test of the regular season is a big one - at Oklahoma on Wednesday. The Sooners took the first meeting 91-87 in Austin on Jan. 24 but Texas hasn't lost since. https://www.cbssports.com/womens-college-basketball/news/womens-bracketology-texas-moves-to-a-no-1-seed-usc-not-far-behind/
  9. Someone needs to explain to me why she chose to attend Baylor given that, you know, its Baptist affiliation and position on ho-MO-sex-u-al-i-teee dated back to 1840-something. https://19thnews.org/2024/02/brittney-griner-baylor-jersey-retirement/
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