Sports
June 23, 2021
Scott Drew on What’s Next After Baylor Basketball’s NCAA Win
The Bears head coach reflects on bringing a title to Waco and keeping faith front and center in the Baptist university’s hoops program.
College Basketball
Sports
April 7, 2021
A Player on Scott Drew’s First Baylor Team Watches the Bears Win It All
Matt Sayman reflects on Baylor’s challenging 2003–04 season, and how it helped lead to the school’s NCAA Championship win Monday night.
Sports
April 5, 2021
Chris Beard Could Have Had a Statue in Lubbock, but He Chose UT Instead
Leaving a near-perfect situation at Texas Tech is an enormous risk for the once-beloved basketball coach, but Beard just might be good enough to succeed where other Longhorns coaches fell short.
Sports
April 1, 2021
“I Pray for Them to Lose”
Why some El Pasoans root for every Texas basketball team that isn’t UTEP to lose during March Madness.
Sports
March 25, 2021
“Some People Didn’t See This as a Championship Program”
Inside the University of Houston's basketball rebuild, as coach Kelvin Sampson and the Cougars prepare to face Syracuse in the Sweet 16.
Sports
March 19, 2021
Meet All Seven Texas Teams in the 2021 Men’s NCAA Tournament
Can Baylor beat Gonzaga? Can UT or Houston make the Final Four? Will Abilene Christian or North Texas spring an upset?
Best Thing In Texas
November 27, 2019
The Best Thing in Texas: The Unranked Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks Dramatically Defeat Duke’s Basketball Team
The underdogs beat college ball's powerhouse with an astonishing buzzer beater.
Sports
November 6, 2019
The Best Thing in Texas: UT Basketball’s Andrew Jones Dropped 20 Points After Returning From Cancer Treatment
Leukemia never had a chance.
Sports
April 4, 2019
A Handy Guide to Rooting For (or Against) Baylor Women’s Basketball
The Lady Bears are back in the Women’s Final Four for the first time since 2012.
Sports
April 3, 2015
Shaka Smart Signed on to Coach the Texas Longhorns Basketball Team
Meet the Longhorns’s erudite, innovative, and fatherly new hoops coach.
The Daily Post
April 8, 2014
Brittney Griner’s Memoir Drops Today
The former Waco basketball star now adds "author" to her list of impressive accomplishments.
Sports
February 27, 2014
The Best Coach in Texas Works for SMU
Larry Brown on March Madness, Allen Iverson, and being an eyewear trendsetter.
Sports
March 17, 2013
Texas Teams Shut Out of March Madness
For the first time since 1977, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament won't include a single team from Texas.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Five Most Memorable Sports Stories of 2012
Guess what's number one (hint: look at the picture).
Sports
January 21, 2013
NCAA Smacks Texas Southern With Five Years Probation
And as a "double repeat violator" going back two decades, the Tigers may be considered the most lawless college sports program since SMU.
Sports
January 21, 2013
You Can’t Go Home Again?
The rise and rise and fall and fall of former UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky, and Texas Tech basketball coach Billy Gillispie.
Sports
April 22, 2012
How Long Will Larry Brown Coach SMU?
And does it matter? Southern Methodist University's hiring of the famously well-traveled hoops coach has already paid off with big headlines.
Sports
January 31, 1974
Go You Wildcats, Go!
Even though Wheatley High's last teamful of stars got snapped up by eager colleges, winning is such a habit there that they just might keep on doing it.