Texas Basketball: Greatest Longhorns in history of NCAA Tournament

4. Lance Blanks, SG

There aren’t many players in the history of the Longhorns program that can claim that they played in at least five NCAA Tournament games over the course of two seasons while scoring in the double digits in every single outing.

In fact, in the modern era of college basketball, the former standout Texas guard Lance Blanks is the only player that scored at least a dozen points in every single postseason game he played in (with a minimum of five games played in the Big Dance). That is certainly a special accomplishment that truly showed the consistency that Blanks brought to the table for the Longhorns.

In his half-dozen games played in two NCAA Tournaments with Texas, Blanks averaged around 20 points per game, four rebounds, three assists, three steals, and no blocks.

3. Travis Mays, G

Yet another player from those amazing Longhorns teams of the late 1980s and 1990s is the first to crack the top three on this list, with the two-time Southwest Conference Player of the Year Travis Mays. This stud guard for the Longhorns was the most valuable player throughout many of those solid NCAA Tournament runs during that span of time.

In six NCAA Tournament games with Texas, Mays averaged around 27 points per game, three rebounds, two assists, and one steal. Mays was also an insanely efficient shooter in those NCAA Tournament outings, hitting his looks from the field at a clip of 46 percent and 43 percent from three-point land.

Moreover, Mays also likely had the best NCAA Tournament performance in program history in a 1990 win over the Georgia Bulldogs. In a very special outing for Mays against Georgia, he put up a career-high 44 points, six rebounds, one assist, no steals, and one block.

To this day, Mays is still tied with Bradley’s Bob Carney for the most free throws made in a single NCAA Tournament game, with 23. He had an insane 27 free-throw attempts made in that Texas win over Georgia in 1990.