Texas Basketball: Greatest Longhorns in history of NCAA Tournament
6. Larry Robinson, F
You can’t overlook some of the players from the 1960s and 1970s for the Longhorns program that had some of the best performances in the postseason ever. And one of the very best postseason performers in the history of the Longhorns program was one All-Tournament player that starred for this team in the mid-1970s, forward Larry Robinson.
Robinson led the Longhorns to register one of their only postseason wins of the 1960s and 1970s when Texas topped a good Houston Cougars team in 1972. That game saw Robinson put up a very impressive 23 points and 14 rebounds on 56 percent shooting from the field.
Moreover, in the three postseason games Robinson played with Texas in his collegiate career, he averaged around 22 points per game and eight rebounds on a solid 53 percent shooting from the field.
5. Joey Wright, G
The former star Texas guard Joey Wright is one of multiple Longhorns players on this list from some of those great teams from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Texas had a few special runs in the NCAA Tournament in that span. And Wright was a big reason for a lot of that postseason success that Texas found in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Wright got plenty of postseason experience with Texas, including three NCAA Tournament appearances during his time on the Forty Acres. Wright played in eight postseason games in total with the Longhorns, where he averaged around 19 points per game, five rebounds, three assists, two steals, and one block.
The success that Wright found in the postseason with Texas is evident in the fact that he was a part of at least one NCAA Tournament win in three different appearances during his collegiate career.
Wright also had one of the best individual postseason performances in the last four decades for the Longhorns in a 1991 loss to St. John’s. In that Round of 32 loss, Wright put up a game-high 32 points on 10-of-23 shooting from the field, 2-of-5 from beyond the arc, and a perfect 10-of-10 from the free-throw line. He also gave Texas six rebounds, two assists, one steal, and one block.