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I'm approaching this season much like I did Chris Beard year one. We had a competitive team most of the year, but the offense was like watching paint dry at times. But that wasn't the point. Beard wanted to win by winning the turnover battle, hitting a higher percentage of shots, and playing really tough half court defense. Year one was about creating that mentality, and then building on it in year two.

Same thing here, except Miller's identity is more about playing with tempo, hitting open looks, especially 3s, and playing good enough on the defensive end. He wouldn't say it like that, but that's my view of him compared to guys like Barnes and Beard. 

I hope we make it to the tournament, but I don't need that as much as I need to see the team show improvement over the course of the year, and then Miller show he can upgrade the roster in different ways from year 1 to year 2.

Not saying we'll have an Elite Eight type team next year, but I hope we'll be competing to get to the 2nd weekend. Which is still ambitious. 

I'm also hoping he can be effective at promoting the program, because we need that type of guy at Texas. Maybe we shouldn't, but we do. 

Funny when it was announced Texas was moving from the Big 12 to the SEC, I thought we'd be downgrading conferences in basketball. Nope. It's going to be as much of a grind as the Big 12 used to be. More high scoring offenses, though. 

One thing I get tired of, is hearing coaches say they're going to run it more, but they don't. That's not going to be a concern with Miller. He's going to want to play more uptempo than most coaches out there. 

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Texas vs. Duke: Injury notes ahead of Tuesday's season opener (Sunday 2:38pm CT) - Gerry

I am excited for Miller's tenure here and have a lot of optimism. However, lay the points in this one. It looks like it's going to the typical blowout by Duke. Duke -7.5 seems too small given it's the first game of the season and Texas isn't full strength.

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Texas vs. Duke: Injury notes ahead of Tuesday's season opener (Sunday 2:38pm CT)

 

Gerry Hamilton

By Gerry Hamilton

  • 18 hours ago
 

Texas vs. Duke: Injury notes ahead of Tuesday's season opener

The Texas Longhorns played preseason scrimmages against SMU and TCU without big men Matas Vokietaitas and Lassina Traore. 

Vokietaitas has been nursing an ankle sprain suffered early in fall practice. In the case of Traore, he has been working back to full strength following missing last season with an ACL injury. He has been working through some soreness, and limited. 

Headed into last week, it was considered 50-50 either would be able to go in the season opener.

OTF can report that odds are increasing that one, if not both, will be available for the contest against Duke in Charlotte, N.C. Both have increased their practice time preparation the last couple of days. Texas practiced Saturday at 11 am, instead of taking in the Texas-Vanderbilt football game. 

Texas and Duke tipoff at 7:45 p.m. CT. The game will be televised by ESPN. 

Texas 2025-26 roster...
Tramon Mark, CG, 6-6, Gr. (10.6 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists)
Simeon Wilcher, CG, 6-4, junior (8.0 points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists) 
Jordan Pope, CG, 6-0, senior (11.0 points, 2.0 rebounds, 1.7 assists)
Chendall Weaver, G, 6-3, senior (6.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists)
Dailyn Swain, F/G, 6-8, junior (11.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.6 steals at Xavier)
Camden Heide, F, 6-7, junior (4.7 points, 3.6 rebounds, 39.2% from three at Purdue) 
Matas Vokietaitas, C, 7-0, sophomore (10.2 points, 5.4 rebounds at FAU)
Lassina Traore, C, 6-10, senior (11.9 points, 10.3 rebounds, 1.2 assists in 2023-24 at LBSU) 
Nic Codie, PF,  6-9, sophomore
John Clark, PF, 6-8.5, freshman
Declan Duru, F, 6-8.5, freshman 
Lewis Obiorah, C, 7-1, freshman - will redshirt

Texas 2025-26 schedule ...
Note: * - projected NCAA Tournament team
*Nov. 4 - Duke (Charlotte)
Nov. 8 - Lafayette
Nov. 12 - Fairleigh Dickinson 
Nov. 15 - Kansas City 
Nov. 18 - Rider 
Nov. 24-26 Maui Invitational:
Nov. 24 - Arizona State
Nov. 25 - Washington State or Chaminade
Nov. 26 - TBD
*Dec. 3 - ACC/SEC Challenge vs. Virginia 
Dec. 8 - Southern 
*Dec. 12 - at UConn
Dec. 16 - LeMoyne 
Dec. 22 - Maryland Eastern Shore 
SEC play:
*Jan. 3 - vs. Mississippi State
*Jan. 6 - at Tennessee
*Jan 10 - at Alabama
*Jan. 13 - vs. Vanderbilt 
*Jan. 17 - vs. Texas A&M
*Jan. 20 - at Kentucky
*Jan. 24 - vs. Georgia 
*Jan. 27 at Auburn 
*Jan. 31 - at Oklahoma 
Feb. 3 - vs. South Carolina
*Feb. 7 - vs. Ole Miss
*Feb. 14 - at Missouri 
Feb. 17 - vs. LSU
*Feb. 21 - at Georgia 
*Feb. 25 - vs. Florida 
*Feb. 28 - at Texas A&M
*Mar. 3 - at Arkansas
*Mar. 7 - vs. Oklahoma 

 

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Posted
9 minutes ago, Pancho said:

I’m still angry we agreed to this game in what is essentially a home game for Duke. I don’t know what Miller was thinking. 

Oh well, get some experience I gue

I feel like we don’t accept if it’s not a Dick Vitale thing. Might be a bad look to be like “fuck that guy, hard pass” 

Posted
1 minute ago, Js1 said:

I feel like we don’t accept if it’s not a Dick Vitale thing. Might be a bad look to be like “fuck that guy, hard pass” 

More like HARD PASS BABY!

 

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F it. Guess we'll just have to beat them.

Look, we have plenty of talent on this team to win.  Jordan Poole is our 7th or 8th best player and he has gone off for 40+ before.  If the shots are falling, we have a chance. 

This is also not a team that is going to get bullied.  Quite the opposite.  We very well may trot out a starting lineup of:    6'4 Wilcher, 6'5 Mark, 6'8 Swain, 6'10 Traore, 7'0 Vokietaitis.  If it was a Chris Beard or Rick Barnes team, we would dirty it up and turn it into a slug fest.  Looking forward to seeing what Miller does with this group.

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

We signed Jordan Poole?  YES!

and we got Anthony Edwards comin off the bench now!  NIL bitches!

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I would have some serious questions if Miller can't make the tourney with this team. RT flirted with the SS year 1 and almost made the tourney last season. Not sure why Texas should take a step back in the NIL era after upgrading at HC.

That's assuming there aren't a bunch of devastating injuries or what have you.

Posted
19 hours ago, HookEm said:

Jordan Poole is our 7th or 8th best player and he has gone off for 40+ before. 

I shouldn't have gotten out of bed yesterday. I was making mental mistakes like crazy at work all day too.  

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Posted

I guess I should be excited about the new coach and everything but the last hype train crashed in such a demoralyzing way I am having a hard time feeling it. Ah well. I will watch the game and see if that gets me going at all.

Posted
3 hours ago, HookEm said:

I shouldn't have gotten out of bed yesterday. I was making mental mistakes like crazy at work all day too.  

And now you're going to hear that joke all season. 

It's okay - this is how we create content.

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Posted

As long as we don't look painfully inept for 40 minutes, I'll be happy

But I am fully expecting to lose big because it's Duke and Miller's first game.  And that's okay. 

Posted
38 minutes ago, HookEm said:

This makes me LOL, because my job has a much bigger potential negative impact than that.  Oh well.

 

Leo Walking GIFs | Tenor

I just watched House of Dynamite. How big of an impact would you say your job potentially has?

Posted
34 minutes ago, txhorns said:

My hope is that we keep it within 15 points tonight.  Do that and I will consider it a successful game given the circumstances.  A single digit loss would be great.

No moral victories. For me at least.

Whatever we look like, I hope we get a whole lot better. 

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On 11/3/2025 at 9:12 AM, MuellerHorn said:

 

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Texas vs. Duke: Injury notes ahead of Tuesday's season opener (Sunday 2:38pm CT)

 

Gerry Hamilton

By Gerry Hamilton

  • 18 hours ago
 

Texas vs. Duke: Injury notes ahead of Tuesday's season opener

The Texas Longhorns played preseason scrimmages against SMU and TCU without big men Matas Vokietaitas and Lassina Traore. 

Vokietaitas has been nursing an ankle sprain suffered early in fall practice. In the case of Traore, he has been working back to full strength following missing last season with an ACL injury. He has been working through some soreness, and limited. 

Headed into last week, it was considered 50-50 either would be able to go in the season opener.

OTF can report that odds are increasing that one, if not both, will be available for the contest against Duke in Charlotte, N.C. Both have increased their practice time preparation the last couple of days. Texas practiced Saturday at 11 am, instead of taking in the Texas-Vanderbilt football game. 

Texas and Duke tipoff at 7:45 p.m. CT. The game will be televised by ESPN. 

Texas 2025-26 roster...
Tramon Mark, CG, 6-6, Gr. (10.6 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists)
Simeon Wilcher, CG, 6-4, junior (8.0 points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists) 
Jordan Pope, CG, 6-0, senior (11.0 points, 2.0 rebounds, 1.7 assists)
Chendall Weaver, G, 6-3, senior (6.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists)
Dailyn Swain, F/G, 6-8, junior (11.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.6 steals at Xavier)
Camden Heide, F, 6-7, junior (4.7 points, 3.6 rebounds, 39.2% from three at Purdue) 
Matas Vokietaitas, C, 7-0, sophomore (10.2 points, 5.4 rebounds at FAU)
Lassina Traore, C, 6-10, senior (11.9 points, 10.3 rebounds, 1.2 assists in 2023-24 at LBSU) 
Nic Codie, PF,  6-9, sophomore
John Clark, PF, 6-8.5, freshman
Declan Duru, F, 6-8.5, freshman 
Lewis Obiorah, C, 7-1, freshman - will redshirt

Texas 2025-26 schedule ...
Note: * - projected NCAA Tournament team
*Nov. 4 - Duke (Charlotte)
Nov. 8 - Lafayette
Nov. 12 - Fairleigh Dickinson 
Nov. 15 - Kansas City 
Nov. 18 - Rider 
Nov. 24-26 Maui Invitational:
Nov. 24 - Arizona State
Nov. 25 - Washington State or Chaminade
Nov. 26 - TBD
*Dec. 3 - ACC/SEC Challenge vs. Virginia 
Dec. 8 - Southern 
*Dec. 12 - at UConn
Dec. 16 - LeMoyne 
Dec. 22 - Maryland Eastern Shore 
SEC play:
*Jan. 3 - vs. Mississippi State
*Jan. 6 - at Tennessee
*Jan 10 - at Alabama
*Jan. 13 - vs. Vanderbilt 
*Jan. 17 - vs. Texas A&M
*Jan. 20 - at Kentucky
*Jan. 24 - vs. Georgia 
*Jan. 27 at Auburn 
*Jan. 31 - at Oklahoma 
Feb. 3 - vs. South Carolina
*Feb. 7 - vs. Ole Miss
*Feb. 14 - at Missouri 
Feb. 17 - vs. LSU
*Feb. 21 - at Georgia 
*Feb. 25 - vs. Florida 
*Feb. 28 - at Texas A&M
*Mar. 3 - at Arkansas
*Mar. 7 - vs. Oklahoma 

 

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Up to -10.5 in most places.  My local guy has it at 12.

Posted
4 hours ago, Pancho said:

Same

 

Need this for the football board except saying:

"WHATEVER HAPPENS TONIGHT SARK ISN'T CHECKED OUT BECAUSE HIS WIFE IS BANGING THE TEAM. IT'S JUST A LESS TALENTED TEAM THAN LAST YEAR"

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Posted

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i can see that most people are pleased with the performance, but i dunno. there were definitely things that looked better than rodney terry’s teams, but that’s a low bar. we can’t shoot and we have no facilitators. that’s the bottom line for me. this looks to me like the type of team that rick barnes used to field that everyone ended up hating so much: size, aggression, rebounding, but no shooting and no floor leader. i’m sure we’ll compete hard, and maybe win a couple of games we shouldn’t, but we will also have some bad losses, and some ugly wins. no shooters and no point guard is really bad combo in 2025.

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i can see that most people are pleased with the performance, but i dunno. there were definitely things that looked better than rodney terry’s teams, but that’s a low bar. we can’t shoot and we have no facilitators. that’s the bottom line for me. this looks to me like the type of team that rick barnes used to field that everyone ended up hating so much: size, aggression, rebounding, but no shooting and no floor leader. i’m sure we’ll compete hard, and maybe win a couple of games we shouldn’t, but we will also have some bad losses, and some ugly wins. no shooters and no point guard is really bad combo in 2025.

The lack of flow/distribution/leadership from the guards was definitely concerning.

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