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26-05-2025
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Jim Schlossnagle addresses Texas' response to NCAA baseball tournament seeding
The road to Omaha begins at UFCU Disch-Falk Field for Texas baseball, as the Longhorns were given the No. 2 national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament on Monday. It's a feat that the Longhorns haven't reached since 2022 and the right to host is only handed out to the top 16 national seeds in the bracket. Though by the Longhorns' response on the ESPN2 broadcast of the bracket reveal show, one might not have known that. Shortly after his team learned the path it would take to get to the College World Series, Longhorns coach Jim Schlossnagle told reporters in Austin that he had mixed emotions about that response by his team. "I don't know how I feel about that, because I never want us to take that for granted," Schlossnagle said Monday according to the Austin American-Statesman's David Eckert. "I understand it's Texas, but as long as I'm coaching here, I never want us to assume, and I don't want us to feel like we're entitled to something." REQUIRED READING: Texas baseball to host NCAA Regional at UFCU Disch-Falk Field: Schedule, tickets To Texas' slight defense, when the Longhorns were shown on the screen during the bracket reveal show, they perhaps didn't know they were live, or it was pulled by ESPN at a different part of the show to air at the time they heard their name called. The most recent example of this came during the NFL draft with the Cleveland Browns' war room not showing any excitement after the selection of Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders and Browns coach Kevin Stefanski deflecting by saying the clips shown during the draft are "not timed up to exactly the right time." However, as the saying goes, actions speak louder than words and several members of the Longhorns' roster were caught yawning in the front row. Here's a look at the Longhorns' reaction at their watch party, which was posted by Texas' official X account (formerly Twitter) on Monday: regional ready 🤘#HookEm | @TexasLonghorns — Texas Baseball (@TexasBaseball) May 26, 2025 REQUIRED READING: NCAA baseball bracket 2025: Full regional schedule, matchups, dates for CWS field Monday's bracket reveal marked the third time in program history that Texas was given the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA baseball tournament, with the others coming in 2010 and 2021. The Longhorns are 155-59-1 in the regional round of the NCAA Tournament, which includes an 87-22 record when those games are in Austin. Texas went 44-12 in its first season under Schlossnagle, who came over from SEC foe Texas A&M during the offseason. The Longhorns won the SEC regular season conference title by two games over Arkansas, while finishing 22-8 overall in SEC play. The Longhorns are slated to start NCAA baseball tournament play on Friday, May 30, at 2 p.m. ET against Houston Christian at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Texas' reaction to NCAA baseball seeding has coach questioning
New York Times
26-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Eagles draft safety Andrew Mukuba: How he fits, pick grade and scouting intel
The Philadelphia Eagles added competition and depth to a safety room that has a starting spot available by selecting Texas safety Andrew Mukuba with the No. 64 pick in the 2025 NFL draft. Before transferring to Texas, Mukuba spent three seasons at Clemson where he was named the ACC's Defensive Rookie of the Year. Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables then left to accept the head-coaching position at Oklahoma, and Mukuba's progress flatlined over the next two seasons. Instead of declaring for the draft, Mukuba entered the transfer portal, enrolled at Texas and finished with the best season of his career. Advertisement Though undersized, Mukuba was a disciplined playmaker. He led the Longhorns with five interceptions. He did not draw a penalty in his final 26 games, spanning back to his Clemson days. He flourished in big games, securing an interception in both a regular-season loss to Georgia and the College Football Playoff quarterfinal win over Arizona State. He was the seventh-highest rated safety in The Athletic draft expert Dane Brugler's rankings. Green ranked No. 109 in Brugler's top 300 big board. Here's what Brugler had to say about him in his annual NFL Draft guide: A one-year starter at Texas, Mukuba primarily lined up as the free safety in defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski's 4-2-5 base scheme. Although he made a name for himself as a freshman All-American at Clemson, he put inconsistent play on tape as a sophomore and junior nickel after Brent Venables left the program. Considered at that point a borderline draft pick, he transferred to Austin for his senior year and played the best ball of his career, giving a boost to his projection. Mukuba is at his best flying through alleys with urgency and conviction, but also with enough control to course correct angles while at full speed to leverage the run. He plays bigger than he looks, but he has mediocre finishing strength and some teams are worried about long-term durability because of his aggressive play style. Despite an average athletic profile, he is quick to read run/pass and shows terrific discipline in coverage (18 passes defended, zero penalties over his final 26 games in college). Overall, Mukuba's lack of size will be more noticeable against NFL competition, both in coverage and run support, but he brings energy, instincts and play speed to the secondary. He has the mentality and talent to compete for a starting role at free safety. ANDREW. MUKUBA. EVERYONE.#HookEm | #CFBPlayoff — Texas Football (@TexasFootball) January 1, 2025 Mukuba had a great lone season at Texas last year after being a bit up and down throughout the latter half of his Clemson career. Saving his best for last, Mukuba flashed as an explosive run-fitter with great coverage range last season – finally living up to his elite recruiting profile. I like Mukuba, but liked a few other safeties (Xavier Watts and Kevin Winston, specifically) better. This feels a touch high for Mukuba, but Howie Roseman rarely misses. Grade: B Advertisement What Mukuba lacks in size (5-11, 186) he makes up for in productivity. He spent three seasons at Clemson before transferring to Texas, where he led the Longhorns with five interceptions in his final collegiate season. The Eagles prioritize takeaways in the secondary, and they'll need to make up for the potential losses they could see after the C.J. Gardner-Johnson trade. Gardner-Johnson led the team with six interceptions, including a pick-six. The Eagles needed to backfill the vacancy in their safety room from the Gardner-Johsnon trade. Mukuba will become the fifth safety under contract in Philadelphia. The Eagles hold confidence in Sydney Brown, a 2023 third-round pick who suffered a late ACL tear as a rookie. Brown contributed on special teams in 2024 and will compete for a starting spot opposite Reed Blankenship, who's entering the final year of his contract. Mukuba adds competition to the room. His four-year contract also supplies long-term depth. Immediately after the Eagles selected Mukuba, the New York Giants picked Toledo defensive tackle Darius Alexander. The Eagles lost Milton Williams to the New England Patriots during the free agency cycle, and it wouldn't have been surprising to see the Eagles add an interior defensive linemen in the early rounds. They could also stand to add depth at cornerback after parting ways with Darius Slay and James Bradberry. But plenty of cornerback prospects remain on the board. Safety was arguably the Eagles' biggest need entering the draft. There's a vacancy opposite Blankenship, and they only had four safeties under contract. Three had playing experience. The Eagles have never drafted a safety in the first round in the Super Bowl era — a streak that continues. But a second-round pick is still a notably high investment. The Eagles last spent a second-round pick on a safety in 2011 on Jaiquawn Jarrett at No. 54 overall.
New York Times
01-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Texas' Vic Schaefer is close to reaching the top of the ladder once more
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Texas coach Vic Schaefer stood at the bottom of a ladder on Monday night at Legacy Arena focused on a few final tasks. The Longhorns' Elite Eight victory had ended 20 minutes earlier, yet Schaefer still held a curled-up piece of paper containing the essentials of his team's victory. With Texas headed to its first Final Four since 2003, he was there to brace the ladder as every one of his players and assistant coaches made the ascent. Advertisement A coach for 38 years, Schaefer still had instructions left to deliver. He reminded freshman guard Jordan Lee to pose for a picture before she touched down. Junior forward Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda asked Schaefer, 'Does it matter where I cut?' Schaefer pointed to a piece of net by the front of the rim. Schaefer told star wing Madison Booker to snip a piece of net on the back left of the cylinder as she stepped up. From atop the ladder, Booker asked him where the scissors were. 'It's right there by the end,' he replied. Schaefer even assisted his assistants. When it was finally time for him to climb the ladder he had been longing to climb ever since he took the Longhorns job in April 2020, he gave another instruction. He held out the piece of paper that held the keys to Texas' 58-47 win over second-seeded TCU and told a security guard: 'That's the game plan. Don't give it to anybody.' Only then did he finally relinquish it and ascend. Schaefer shook the guard's hand after he had finished cutting the net fully off and returned to the court. He regained his prized game plan with the netting draped over his white dress shirt and brown tie. Schaefer has climbed a ladder like this before. Eight years ago, he guided Mississippi State to the program's first Final Four. He took the Bulldogs back to the sport's pinnacle a year later as well. Both times, their season ended as runners-up in the national title game. WE'RE GOING TO TAMPA 🤘#HookEm — Texas Women's Basketball (@TexasWBB) April 1, 2025 But since Schaefer returned home to Austin, coaching in the city where he was born, he has been fixated on achieving what the Longhorns accomplished on Monday night. Every day, Schaefer sees the banner in Texas' practice facility that denotes the Longhorns' past Final Four appearances in 1986, 1987 and 2003. 'It's something that's been on my mind,' he said. 'It obsesses you. You're obsessed with it. It's the only way you're ever going to do it. (If) you just think about it five months out of the year, you're never going to get there.' Advertisement There are nights he sleeps in his office. There are days when players recognize he hasn't changed his clothes because he's wearing the same outfit to practice as the day before. Getting to this point, he said, 'has to be something you live, eat, breathe, sleep, every day, 365.' It can, of course, sometimes be a miserable way to live. His family has suffered, he said. And yet, when the buzzer sounded on Texas' Elite Eight victory — a 180 from losing in the regional final in three of the last four seasons — Schaefer dropped to his knees, opened his hands and looked up to the rafters. 'I'm humbled, I'm grateful, I'm honored to be able to coach this group of young ladies,' he said. 'The good Lord has blessed me with some great kids.' Schaefer's head coaching career began back in 1990, when Sam Houston State tasked him to run the Bearkats. His first budget there was $36,000 for team travel, lodging, food, recruiting and postage. A lot has changed since. He is paid more than $2 million and spends his days inside a 75,000-square-foot, $60-million practice facility. College athletics is drastically different. The world is too. But Schaefer has often pushed back against the tidal waves. 'The standard has changed so much in our society it seems like, and yet I haven't,' he said. The Longhorns play as physically and aggressively on defense as his teams did in the 1990s, he said. Sam Houston State averaged 13.2 3-pointers per game. That's just over two more attempts than this season's Texas team, which has been at or near the bottom of 3-point rate nationally throughout the year. No matter the era, Schaefer has remained principled and consistent. When prospective recruits visit the Longhorns, star guard Rori Harmon is instructed to be honest about how demanding Schaefer can be. Monday night was the kind of game the Longhorns have grown accustomed to. TCU had more turnovers in the first half (11) than field goals (seven). Horned Frogs star Hailey Van Lith missed seven of her first eight shots. At halftime, as the Longhorns led by only two, Schaefer stressed the need to box out TCU guard Anges Emma-Nnopu (she had eight first-half rebounds, five of them offensive.) Advertisement 'Who in the heck in this room can keep 21 off the glass?' he asked them. Mwenentanda stood up, raised her hand and said she could. 'It kind of juiced up my team a little bit,' Schaefer said. Emma-Nnopu didn't have another rebound. When Schaefer asks, players listen. That's the moral. They soak in his sermons. They've grown so used to hearing some of his idioms (and his voice) that they sheepishly admit to sometimes imitating him at practice when he's not within earshot. But there was no teasing their coach on Monday. Just praise. 'It means a lot to us, but I think it means a lot more to coach Schaefer,' Booker said. She was named the region's Most Outstanding Player and scored a game-high 18 points against TCU. 'If you had a camera to follow him around, a day in the life of Vic Schaefer, you will be in the gym all day, you will be watching film all day. He deserves it. He puts in the work.' Booker, a Mississippi native, watched Schaefer advance to two national championships at Mississippi State. She can recall countless other Bulldogs' high points, too. But Schaefer remembers things that Booker might not have seen on the court. After working as an assistant coach for 15 years at Arkansas and Texas A&M, Schaefer inherited a Mississippi State program that finished 10th in the SEC the year before he took the job. Colleagues told him he was damaging his career by leaving an assistant coach job at Texas A&M, then a giant in the sport, to go to a school in a state he had no roots in. He recalled driving down Highway 12 every morning and walking into an office with no staff and a roster needing a complete overhaul. Those moments prepared him and his players for Monday. On the eve of playing TCU, he told his players, 'Being comfortable is the worst addiction in life.' 'It's so hard, especially with young people, because they just don't want to be uncomfortable,' he said. Advertisement Yet the struggles paid off for the Longhorns, and Schaefer wanted everyone in Birmingham wearing burnt orange to reap the benefits of the labor his team had put in. When it was over, he posed for pictures with the school's cheerleaders and with 'Hook 'Em' the Texas mascot. More than an hour after the game ended, he was still talking with fans and taking selfies with them. (Add selfies to a short list of societal changes he seems to embrace.) Schaefer's journey took him from Austin back to Austin. Tampa is the next stop on his coaching journey, headed for a meeting against fellow top seed South Carolina in Friday's Final Four. At 64, Schaefer said he isn't sure he's reached his full potential. In fact, he said he hopes he hasn't. But for at least a night, he fully savored Texas' successes. With pride in his eyes, he watched his players climb the ladder, then climbed it himself. Again. 'Winning is hard, man,' Schaefer said. 'For a day, I'm going to let these kids enjoy this. Tomorrow, we'll have a plan, and there is no question in my mind these kids will embrace the opportunity.'
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
March Madness live updates, scores, bracket: Texas vs. Tennessee; Hailey Van Lith lifts TCU over Notre Dame in NCAA tournament
The March Madness slate continues Saturday with the final women's Sweet 16 games. Plenty of stars will be in action, and Hailey Van Lith captured everybody's attention early in the day with a dominant outing to lift No. 2 TCU over No. 3 Notre Dame. Still to come: No. 2 UConn's Paige Bueckers, No. 1 Texas' Madison Booker and more. And even though No. 1 USC is without injured star JuJu Watkins, the Trojans will continue their quest for a title against No. 5 Kansas State. Will the top seeds continue their dominance, or will a lower-seeded team pull off an upset to advance to the Elite Eight? Here's what we'll be following for the day. All times ET No. 2 TCU 71, No. 3 Notre Dame 62 No. 1 Texas vs. No. 5 Tennessee (ABC) 5:30 p.m.: No. 2 UConn vs. No. 3 Oklahoma (ESPN) 8 p.m.: No. 1 USC vs. No. 5 Kansas State (ESPN)Tennessee held a sliver of control to start the quarter, but Texas snatched it back, stomping to a 21-13 lead to end the first quarter. The Longhorns looked dominant on a 13-0 run, as the Lady Vols' shooting went cold. The Longhorns pull ahead to a 19-13 lead off a few great drives in transition and taking advantage of Tennessee's misses. That'll be the Lady Vols' main weakness in this unique system: Speeding up possessions only works if you score. playin' fast 💨🤘#HookEm — Texas Women's Basketball (@TexasWBB) March 29, 2025 Tennessee strikes first against Texas with a Talaysia Cooper three-pointer, but the Longhorns are keeping pace with the Lady Vols so far. Tennessee's relentless, fast-paced play is already showing off: The Lady Vols attempted 11 shots in the first four minutes of play alone. Tennessee is now up by three points, after shooting twice as many shots as Texas so far in the first quarter. Lady Vols 11, Longhorns 8. And we're off in Birmingham for the second Sweet 16 matchup of the day, as SEC foes Tennessee and Texas battle for a spot in the Elite Eight. Hailey Van Lith is the only player to lead THREE different schools to the Elite Eight in NCAA history (men's or women's) 🔥 — espnW (@espnW) March 29, 2025 "THIS IS WHY!"@haileyvanlith and @tcuwbb are heading to the ELITE 8!#MarchMadness — NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessWBB) March 29, 2025 Quite a happy group of TCU players advancing to the Elite Eight for the first time — Andrea Adelson (@aadelsonESPN) March 29, 2025 What a game in Birmingham, as TCU pulled away from Notre Dame after a dominant fourth quarter. The Horned Frogs outscored the Fighting Irish 20-10 in the final quarter, behind 18 points from Hailey Van Lith. Notre Dame, who at one point looked unstoppable, fell apart towards the end of the game as numerous shots fell flat. But Van Lith balled out, and powered TCU to its first Elite Eight in program history. Another missed free throw from Hannah Hidalgo, who is 9-of-12 from the line today; two of those misses have come in the last few minutes. Two more free throws from Sedona Prince, and TCU is up by nine with 23 seconds left. Hailey Van Lith is balling out, getting a tricky contested layup to give TCU a nine-point lead. HVL said LIGHTS OUT🫰 — TCU Women's Basketball (@tcuwbb) March 29, 2025 Hannah Hidalgo, who has not had a very good fourth quarter, had a chance to get Notre Dame within seven points, but missed one of her free throws. TCU up eight with less than a minute left. HVL's right knee is bleeding — possibly an injury she sustained while diving and grappling for the ball before TCU's last timeout. The game takes a brief pause to wrap up her knee and get the blood off the court, and then we're back in the thick of it. That's only Hailey Van Lith's second three-pointer of the game, but they've both been some of the most crucial points in this matchup. She also just hit a major milestone, breaking TCU's single-season scoring record. There it is!The greatest offensive season in program history 👏 — TCU Women's Basketball (@tcuwbb) March 29, 2025 The Horned Frogs are up by 9 points — their largest lead of the game, and tied for the largest lead overall. It's a lead that is quickly starting to feel insurmountable for Notre Dame. A shot attempt by Olivia Miles that hung in the balance before bouncing out. Missed layups. Bad day offensively from Hannah. Another bounced out shot from Sonia. Feels like it might start piling up here in the final five minutes for Notre Dame. The five-point lead feels like 10. TCU pulls to a six-point lead off of a beautiful three-pointer from Hailey Van Lith. The Horned Frogs are on a 11-2 run; Notre Dame takes a timeout. ‼️‼️‼️@haileyvanlith puts the Frogs up six 🏹 — TCU Women's Basketball (@tcuwbb) March 29, 2025 Well that's problematic for Notre Dame. Westbeld draws a fourth foul guarding Prince on what looked from here like a bad call, or at minimum a ticky-tacky one. She has to hit the bench. HVL draws a third foul on Citron on the very next possession. If it works, it works. More frustration for Hannah coming back after that missed open 3 near the end of the third quarter. She grabs her face exasperated. Sonia Citron also not getting what she wants offensively. She's 0-3 from deep. Team is 3-14 (21.4%). TCU came out more aggressive to make it to the free throw line. They hit all 10 after going 6-of-8 in the entire first half. To monitor: Notre Dame's Westbeld and Prosper, and TCU's Prince and Emma-Nnopu all have three fouls each. Hailey Van Lith wanted to take the lead back for TCU to close out the third quarter. She drew a foul and knocked down both free throws to do so. However, Liatu King got one last shot under the basket to put Notre Dame back on top as time expired, 52-51. Both Van Lith and King have 14 points for their respective teams. Sedona Prince leads all scorers with 15 for TCU. TCU ripped off eight consecutive points, four of them from Hailey Van Lith, to cut Notre Dame's lead to 46-45. Two free throws by Cassandre Prosper stopped the run, but the Horned Frogs are making their push as the third quarter nears its end. Hidalgo runs into an HVL brick wall driving to the basket on the other end and stands proud afteward. This is the Saturday afternoon we all deserve. Hannah was positively giddy to draw that jump ball on Donovyn Hunter near the sideline. Notre Dame is winning in hustle plays. A few minutes ago, Cassandre Prosper dove feet in front of her to tip a ball. Tennessee held a sliver of control to start the quarter, but Texas snatched it back, stomping to a 21-13 lead to end the first quarter. The Longhorns looked dominant on a 13-0 run, as the Lady Vols' shooting went cold. The Longhorns pull ahead to a 19-13 lead off a few great drives in transition and taking advantage of Tennessee's misses. That'll be the Lady Vols' main weakness in this unique system: Speeding up possessions only works if you score. playin' fast 💨🤘#HookEm — Texas Women's Basketball (@TexasWBB) March 29, 2025 Tennessee strikes first against Texas with a Talaysia Cooper three-pointer, but the Longhorns are keeping pace with the Lady Vols so far. Tennessee's relentless, fast-paced play is already showing off: The Lady Vols attempted 11 shots in the first four minutes of play alone. Tennessee is now up by three points, after shooting twice as many shots as Texas so far in the first quarter. Lady Vols 11, Longhorns 8. And we're off in Birmingham for the second Sweet 16 matchup of the day, as SEC foes Tennessee and Texas battle for a spot in the Elite Eight. Hailey Van Lith is the only player to lead THREE different schools to the Elite Eight in NCAA history (men's or women's) 🔥 — espnW (@espnW) March 29, 2025 "THIS IS WHY!"@haileyvanlith and @tcuwbb are heading to the ELITE 8!#MarchMadness — NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessWBB) March 29, 2025 Quite a happy group of TCU players advancing to the Elite Eight for the first time — Andrea Adelson (@aadelsonESPN) March 29, 2025 What a game in Birmingham, as TCU pulled away from Notre Dame after a dominant fourth quarter. The Horned Frogs outscored the Fighting Irish 20-10 in the final quarter, behind 18 points from Hailey Van Lith. Notre Dame, who at one point looked unstoppable, fell apart towards the end of the game as numerous shots fell flat. But Van Lith balled out, and powered TCU to its first Elite Eight in program history. Another missed free throw from Hannah Hidalgo, who is 9-of-12 from the line today; two of those misses have come in the last few minutes. Two more free throws from Sedona Prince, and TCU is up by nine with 23 seconds left. Hailey Van Lith is balling out, getting a tricky contested layup to give TCU a nine-point lead. HVL said LIGHTS OUT🫰 — TCU Women's Basketball (@tcuwbb) March 29, 2025 Hannah Hidalgo, who has not had a very good fourth quarter, had a chance to get Notre Dame within seven points, but missed one of her free throws. TCU up eight with less than a minute left. HVL's right knee is bleeding — possibly an injury she sustained while diving and grappling for the ball before TCU's last timeout. The game takes a brief pause to wrap up her knee and get the blood off the court, and then we're back in the thick of it. That's only Hailey Van Lith's second three-pointer of the game, but they've both been some of the most crucial points in this matchup. She also just hit a major milestone, breaking TCU's single-season scoring record. There it is!The greatest offensive season in program history 👏 — TCU Women's Basketball (@tcuwbb) March 29, 2025 The Horned Frogs are up by 9 points — their largest lead of the game, and tied for the largest lead overall. It's a lead that is quickly starting to feel insurmountable for Notre Dame. A shot attempt by Olivia Miles that hung in the balance before bouncing out. Missed layups. Bad day offensively from Hannah. Another bounced out shot from Sonia. Feels like it might start piling up here in the final five minutes for Notre Dame. The five-point lead feels like 10. TCU pulls to a six-point lead off of a beautiful three-pointer from Hailey Van Lith. The Horned Frogs are on a 11-2 run; Notre Dame takes a timeout. ‼️‼️‼️@haileyvanlith puts the Frogs up six 🏹 — TCU Women's Basketball (@tcuwbb) March 29, 2025 Well that's problematic for Notre Dame. Westbeld draws a fourth foul guarding Prince on what looked from here like a bad call, or at minimum a ticky-tacky one. She has to hit the bench. HVL draws a third foul on Citron on the very next possession. If it works, it works. More frustration for Hannah coming back after that missed open 3 near the end of the third quarter. She grabs her face exasperated. Sonia Citron also not getting what she wants offensively. She's 0-3 from deep. Team is 3-14 (21.4%). TCU came out more aggressive to make it to the free throw line. They hit all 10 after going 6-of-8 in the entire first half. To monitor: Notre Dame's Westbeld and Prosper, and TCU's Prince and Emma-Nnopu all have three fouls each. Hailey Van Lith wanted to take the lead back for TCU to close out the third quarter. She drew a foul and knocked down both free throws to do so. However, Liatu King got one last shot under the basket to put Notre Dame back on top as time expired, 52-51. Both Van Lith and King have 14 points for their respective teams. Sedona Prince leads all scorers with 15 for TCU. TCU ripped off eight consecutive points, four of them from Hailey Van Lith, to cut Notre Dame's lead to 46-45. Two free throws by Cassandre Prosper stopped the run, but the Horned Frogs are making their push as the third quarter nears its end. Hidalgo runs into an HVL brick wall driving to the basket on the other end and stands proud afteward. This is the Saturday afternoon we all deserve. Hannah was positively giddy to draw that jump ball on Donovyn Hunter near the sideline. Notre Dame is winning in hustle plays. A few minutes ago, Cassandre Prosper dove feet in front of her to tip a ball.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Sean Miller's introductory press conference as new Texas hoops coach - best video and pics
Sean Miler was officially introduced at a ceremony on the University of Texas campus Tuesday in front of gathered media and other UT dignitaries like football coach Steve Sarkisian, women's basketball coach Vic Schaefer and baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle. Miller talked about how hard of a decision it was to leave Xavier, a school he coached twice that gave him a lifeline after his scandal at Arizona. 'It was a major struggle for me in one sense, and that has nothing to do with the great place that I'm standing at right now," Miller said. "It tugs at your heart when people believe in you." As for the Texas job, Miller said the goal is to get the Longhorns back to the Final Four. "I'm hungry to get there, and I'll also tell you I know this place is hungry to get back there, and compete, and win a national championship," he said. Miller also is confident Texas' NIL commitment is in place and sound. 'When it comes to NIL, I don't have any concerns about whether we'll have the resources or the ability in the NIL space," he said. "This is the University of Texas." We're moments away from Sean Miller's formal introduction as the new @TexasMBB head a festive atmosphere inside the Texas Athletics Hall of Fame. #HookEm — Jeff Howe (@JeffHoweOTF) March 25, 2025 bevo is here to welcome Texas newest Head Basketball Coach Sean Miller. #HookEm | @TSTVSports — Debanny Cerda (@debannycerda) March 25, 2025 Bevo's in the house. The scene before new @TexasMBB head coach Sean Miller's introductory press conference. — John H. Hygh Jr. (@HyghOnFOX7) March 25, 2025 fire away, Coach 🫡🤘#HookEm — Texas Longhorns (@TexasLonghorns) March 25, 2025 The Sean Miller era has begun🤘 — (@orangebloods_) March 25, 2025 New UT Basketball Coach Sean Miller arrives for introductory news conference. @KXAN_News — Roger Wallace (@rwallacekxan) March 25, 2025 Sean Miller arrives and greets some former Texas players. #HookEm — Bob Ballou (@BobBallouSports) March 25, 2025 New Texas MBB head coach Sean Miller arriving for his introductory press conference #HookEm | #Texas — Cory Mose (@Cory_Mose) March 25, 2025 Sark fresh out of practice to the introductory press conference for new @TexasMBB HC Sean Miller@KXAN_News — LeVon Whittaker TV (@levonwhitt_tv) March 25, 2025 Coach Sarkisian recruited Coach Schaefer to sit with him. Safe to say the buzz is real.#HookEm | @TSTVSports — Debanny Cerda (@debannycerda) March 25, 2025 Fresh out of Spring ball practice, Steve Sarkisian is in attendance for Sean Miller's introductory press conference Jim Schlossnagle, Ange Kelly, Vic Schaefer and Jerritt Elliott are also here When Sarkisian arrived, CDC shouted him out and cracked a joke…'We found your… — Cory Mose (@Cory_Mose) March 25, 2025 Even CDC knows how similar Steve Sarkisian and Sean Miller looks, even sound similar to😂🤘 #HookEm — Unbiased Longhorn (@UnbiasedHorns) March 25, 2025 That's a No. 35 jersey for Sean Miller. 'The right jersey with the wrong name,' he jokes. — David Eckert (@davideckert98) March 25, 2025 New Texas coach Sean Miller, his wife Amy and the Texas administration. — Brian Davis (@byBDavis) March 25, 2025 Texas Head Coach's introductory press conference opening statement. — Barstool Xavier (@XuBarstool) March 25, 2025 Sean Miller is a BALL KNOWER🤘 — Unbiased Longhorn (@UnbiasedHorns) March 25, 2025 'To be the coach here, is quite an honor'Sean Miller in his opening statement as the new Head Coach of Texas Men's Basketball. @KXAN_News #Hookem — LeVon Whittaker TV (@levonwhitt_tv) March 25, 2025 Texas head coach Sean Miller was asked about this high five with Tre Johnson: 'I didn't even realize I did it.' — Zach Dimmitt (@ZachDimmitt7) March 25, 2025 Generational suit, he's off to a great start already — Chris: Sean Miller Glazer (@hornsupchris) March 25, 2025 Coach 🤝 @TheCorralUT 🤘#HookEm — Texas Men's Basketball (@TexasMBB) March 25, 2025 It Just Means More. 🤘#HookEm — Texas Men's Basketball (@TexasMBB) March 25, 2025 Sean Miller chats with Texas guard Chendall Weaver. Miller told us he doesn't know a coach in the country who wouldn't want Chendall on his team. #HookEm — Bob Ballou (@BobBallouSports) March 25, 2025 This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: Sean Miller's introductory press conference as new Texas hoops coach
