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Texas basketball earns hard fought win over Stanford, 72-62

No. 7 Texas improves to 9-1 with a double-digit win over Stanford.

Texas basketball has been through more than its share of adversity this season. On Sunday, the team continued to deliver quality effort in a double-digit win over Stanford.

Stanford is not a very good basketball team this year. The squad fell to 4-7 on the season. Nevertheless, the Cardinal posed presumably a bigger challenge than the Rice Owls earlier in the week.

Timmy Allen, Marcus Carr and Sir’Jabari Rice led the charge for Texas offensively. Carr totaled 17 points while Allen and Rice each added 15 points of their own.

The Longhorns shot 45.2% from the field and 38.1% from three point range.

This Texas team has showed resilience since Rodney Terry took over as acting head coach. And while they haven’t been able to dominate opposition, there’s something to be said for taking the court and winning regardless of margin of victory.

Texas (9-1) will face the sneakily good Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns (10-1) on December 21 as they prepare for their New Years Eve conference opener with Oklahoma.

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Gonzaga strengthens Texas’ resume with win over No. 4 Alabama

Texas faces Stanford at 12 pm CT on ESPN2.

The Texas Longhorns’ resume looks stronger after Saturday. No. 15 Gonzaga, who Texas dismantled earlier this season, soundly defeated the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide.

Gonzaga is off to a rockier start than usual. The Bulldogs sit at 9-3 on the year with double digit losses to Purdue and Texas and a one-point loss to Baylor. Albeit, their schedule is not without resume-building wins.

Saturday’s 100-90 win over the Crimson Tide wasn’t the only big win the Bulldogs have secured. Gonzaga defeated Kentucky 88-72 in addition to close wins over Michigan State, Xavier and Washington. In short, they are facing a nonconference gauntlet.

Plenty of uncertainty surrounds the Texas basketball program, but the team is fortunate to have earned an early win over one of the top teams in the country.

Given its performance against Rice, the Longhorns can’t take anything for granted moving forward. For that reason, the Gonzaga win could pay dividends on Selection Sunday at the end of the season.

Texas faces Stanford at 12 pm CT on ESPN2.

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Stanford drops 11 sports in wake of pandemic

Bad news from one of Notre Dame’s rivals on Wednesday as Stanford cuts 11 sports in wake of the pandemic. Find out the details right here.

You can probably count on one hand the amount of colleges and universities that have as impressive as athletic program across all sports as Stanford University.  The Cardinal have won a combined 126 team national championships, the most of any Division I athletic program.

On Wednesday bad news was made by this historic athletic program as Stanford is dropping 11 sports to cut costs during the pandemic.

The school will discontinue men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball and wrestling after the 2020-21 academic year. Stanford also is eliminating 20 support staff positions.

If interested, you can read the entire letter penned by university officials that was released Wednesday.

In case you were wondering, Stanford had a reported endowment of $27.7 billion in 2019.  I won’t pretend to be an expert when it comes to how that money all works but I feel like there is enough there and that there would probably still be around 27.6 or so billion dollars left over if they chose not to cut these sports.

This flat out sucks for all of the student-athletes that are effected and their family and friends but also touches on a bigger part.  That is, if it happens at Stanford, chances are great it’s going to happen at a lot more colleges that it hasn’t already in the coming days and weeks.