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Texas basketball offers 2022 three-star wide receiver

Shaka Smart and the Longhorns have offered 2021 SG Anthony Black. A two-sport athlete, Black is also a highly recruited football player.

Shaka Smart and the Longhorns have offered 2021 shooting guard Anthony Black out of Coppell, Texas. A two-sport athlete, Black is also a highly recruited football player, currently a three-star prospect.

247Sports has yet to rate Black as a basketball player but he should be highly recruited there as well. Over the past week, he has picked up offers from Saint Louis, TCU, and Texas Tech.

Blessed to receive a basketball offer from the University of Texas !! #HookEm pic.twitter.com/Dj9qLdXIb5

— Anthony Black (@AnthonyBlack24_) June 28, 2020

On the football side, Tom Herman has yet to offer the three-star wide receiver. Baylor, Kansas, and Iowa State have offered Black on the gridiron, with Arkansas and Georgia Tech being the only other Power Five schools to extend an offer.

A Texas legacy, Black’s mother played soccer for the Longhorns for two seasons.

“Texas is definitely up there considering my mom went there for two years,” Black said.

Nobody is quite sure which sport he will choose, but Black possesses enough talent to be an elite prospect in both. Only entering his junior season, he will have the opportunity to increase his rating in both football and basketball.

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Shaka, Texas picks up Crystal Ball selection for 2021 five-star center

Texas has picked up a crystal ball prediction for five-star center Daimion Collins. The big man would be a huge pickup for Shaka Smart.

Texas has picked up a crystal ball prediction from Nick Harris of 247Sports for five-star center Daimion Collins. The big man would be a huge in-state recruit for Shaka Smart, hopefully replacing one and done prospect Greg Brown.

Rating

	Stars	Overall	State	Position
247	4	29	4	6
Rivals	4	20	–	5
ESPN	4	23	3	6
247 Composite	5	22	2	5

Vitals

Hometown	Atlanta, Texas
Projected Position	Center
Height	6-8
Weight	190

Recruitment

Offered on April 13, 2020
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Offers (14 Total)

Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Houston
Kansas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech

Crystal Ball

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Film

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Twitter

I just entered a crystal ball prediction in favor of Texas for a coveted in-state 5 ⭐️ center 🔮👀

For more info (VIP): https://t.co/PfExDnVouT pic.twitter.com/iJDdEGryEG

— Nick Harris (@NickHarris247) June 29, 2020

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Texas lands commitment from 2021 forward Keeyan Itejere

UT has landed 2021 PF Keeyan Itejere. Not rated by any recruiting sites yet, Itejere is the first player in the 2021 recruiting class.

Texas has landed a commitment from 2021 power forward Keeyan Itejere. Not rated by any of the major recruiting websites yet, Itejere is the first player in Shaka Smart’s 2021 recruiting class.

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Big 12 basketball tournament to remain in Kansas City through 2025

The Big 12 Conference and the city of Kansas City have agreed to keep the basketball championship tournament there through 2025.

The Big 12 Conference announced that they will keep the postseason basketball tournament in Kansas City. The original deal ran through 2020 and will now remain there for five more seasons according to their website.

We were all looking forward to having our basketball championships back together in Kansas City in 2020. While the pandemic didn’t allow that to happen, this extension provides an additional year for our institutions and fans to take part in the Big 12 basketball atmosphere that has become synonymous with Kansas City.

With the plans we had in place to celebrate the men’s and women’s basketball championships being back to together in Kansas City, the 2020 Big 12 Basketball Championships were poised to be especially exciting,“ says Kathy Nelson, President & CEO of the Kansas City Sports Commission. “The unfortunate cancellation of those events due to COVID-19 definitely left our community wanting more. We are excited and grateful that the Big 12 Conference has decided to extend our agreement to host both the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships through 2025. – Bob Bowlsby, Big 12 Commissioner

There was some hope that the Big 12’s basketball championship tournaments would move to a more centralized location for all schools. Cities such as Oklahoma City, Oklahoma or Dallas, Texas. Unfortunately with the recent contract extension between Kansas City and the conference won’t allow that to happen until at least 2026.

The Texas Longhorns are hoping to have more competitive teams in the upcoming season. The men’s team will return with everyone from the 2019-20 team with the addition of the number one recruit in the country Greg Brown.

The women’s team will be under new leadership with the recent hire of Vic Schaefer, who came over from Mississippi State. There is a bit of excitement given the direction he had his previous program going.

Longhorns well-represented on 2021 Texas Sports Hall of Fame Ballot

The Texas Sports Hall of Fame listed their ballot for the 2021 class. The Longhorns have nine former athletes up for induction.

The Texas Sports Hall of Fame recently released their 2021 ballots and it has plenty of former Texas Longhorns on it. There are two ballots with one being the primary and the other being the veteran ballot. In total there are nine Longhorns and seven are on the primary ballot. The sports range from football, basketball, softball and track and field.

Primary Ballot

Phil Dawson, Kicker

The first former Longhorn on the ballot is former kicker Phil Dawson. Dawson played for Texas from 1994-97. He would appear in 46 games in that span. Twice he led the conference in extra point attempts, extra points made and field goal percentage. He would finish his Longhorns career with 339 points scored, his career high of 108 was set in 1996.

He would go on to enjoy a NFL career that lasted until 2018. Most of his career was spent in Cleveland for 14 seasons. He would join the San Francisco 49ers for four seasons and the final two in Arizona with the Cardinals. He played in 305 games total. In that time he converted 83.8 percent of his field goal attempts and 97.6 percent of his extra point attempts.

He would finish his career with 1,847 points over his 20-year NFL career. He was selected to his only Pro Bowl in 2012, which would also be his last year in Cleveland. Dawson ranks second in Browns history for most points scored. He only trails legendary kicker Lou Groza.

Accomplishments:

All-American kicker and four-year starter who left UT with 13 Longhorn records, including all-time marks for scoring (339), field goals (59) and field goal accuracy (74.7 percent)
Finished his career ranked 16th on the NCAA all-time scoring list, 12th on the NCAA all-time kick-scoring chart and 31st on the NCAA all-time field goals made list
Set a UT record by hitting 15 straight field goals in 1996-97; set a UT record by making six straight field goals from 50 or more yards from 1995-97
Connected on 64.3 percent of his field goals from 40 yards and further (27 of 42) during his college career
Signed as free agent with Cleveland in 1999
Hall of Honor inductee in 2012

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With NBA set to return, should Kevin Durant?

The NBA Board of Governors voted to approve a 22-team league restart plan in Orlando. Should Kevin Durant come back and play for the Nets?

On Thursday, the NBA Board of Governors voted to approve a 22-team league restart plan in Orlando, Florida according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The top eight teams from both the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference will travel to Florida, plus the Portland Trailblazers, New Orleans Pelicans, Sacramento Kings, San Antonio Spurs, Phoneix Suns, and the Washington Wizards.

Each team will play eight games to conclude the 2019-2020 regular season. From there on, a normal playoff schedule will be in place, with the top eight teams from each conference facing off.

Within the top eight teams of the Eastern Conference is the Brooklyn Nets. This offseason, Brooklyn signed two major free agents in former Duke star Kyrie Irving and former Longhorn Kevin Durant.

However, nobody has seen Durant in a Nets jersey yet, as he has been sidelined with a torn Achilles since Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals with the Golden State Warriors. The original plan was to have him sit out the entire season and return for the 2020-2021 season.

Now, with a nearly four-month layoff due to COVID-19, should Kevin Durant return to the Nets and attempt to help them win a championship this season?

As thing stand, Brooklyn is in seventh place in the Eastern Conference, sitting at a record of 30-34. They are six games behind the sixth-placed Philadelphia 76ers and six games ahead of the ninth-place Washington Wizards. The Nets are more or less a lock for the playoffs at this point.

Assuming all seeding remains the same after eight games, their first-round opponent would be the defending NBA Champions, the Toronto Raptors.

Durant is not the only injured star for Brooklyn, as Kyrie Irving underwent season-ending shoulder surgery back in February. As of now, the Nets are without two players they are paying a combined $70 million.

If Irving was healthy and Brooklyn was seen as a competitive force throughout the season, Durant could have considered coming back for the playoffs.

Without the superstar point guard, there is no point in rushing back, especially as a 7-seed. Assuming everything goes well, Durant should be able to be ready to go for the 2020-2021 NBA season.

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An NBA team composed of only Texas Longhorns

What would an NBA team look like if it was only composed of former Texas Longhorns currently in the NBA? Here is our starting five.

Recently Longhorns Wire released their all NFL offensive and defensive teams using only Longhorns currently in the NFL. The offensive teams and defensive posts can be found using the links below.

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Four-star power forward from Westlake announces top 10

2021 PF KJ Adams has announced his top 10 with UT making the cut. Baylor, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Tech join Texas as Big 12 teams.

2021 power forward KJ Adams has announced his top 10 with Texas making the cut. Baylor, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Tech join the Longhorns as Big 12 teams.

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