Where Texas basketball ranks in all-time NCAA Tournament wins
On the afternoon of March 18, first-year head coach Chris Beard and the Texas basketball program will be looking to upend head coach Mike Young and the defending ACC Tournament Champion Virginia Tech Hokies. Texas has the six-seed in the Round of 64 as they get set to take on the 11-seed Virginia Tech.
Beard and the Longhorns will be looking to also snap a four-game losing streak for the program dating back to 2014. The last time that Texas won an NCAA Tournament game came back near the end of the 2013-14 season over the 10-seed Arizona State Sun Devils.
Moreover, it would be nice to see Beard get the Longhorns back on track in the postseason. That is what eluded former Texas head coach Shaka Smart in his roughly half-decade-long tenure with this program. Smart never won a single NCAA Tournament game during his time as the Texas head coach.
But Texas is one of the more storied college hoops programs in the Big 12. They don’t have the decorated history like the Kansas Jayhawks do.
Texas basketball ranks in the top 30 all-time in NCAA Tournament wins
Texas is tied for 11th in the country in terms of total NCAA Tournament appearances in program history. The Longhorns just got their 36th appearance in the Big Dance this year, which keeps them tied with the Arizona Wildcats at 11th in college hoops history.
Granted, while Texas has a plethora of NCAA Tournament appearances in their program history, the success in the win column didn’t really follow suit. Texas ranks 30th in NCAA history in terms of total wins in the Big Dance. Texas has 35 NCAA Tournament wins in their program history.
That gives the Longhorns a record of 35-38 in their 36 NCAA Tournament appearances.
Some other numbers to note include the three appearances in the Final Four, and five occasions where Texas got at least a top-three seed in the NCAA Tournament. Texas also has seven appearances in the Elite Eight in program history.
The last time the Longhorns made it to the Final Four came back in 2003, before falling short to the Syracuse Orange and future NBA Hall-of-Famer Carmelo Anthony.
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Texas is hoping that Beard will be able to find more postseason success as this program’s head coach than Smart was able to in his six years on the Forty Acres. That journey will start on March 18 at 3:30 p.m. CT, when Texas takes on Virginia Tech in the Round of 64.