Chris Beard’s first season as the head coach at Texas has been a rollercoaster, as the team never has really formed a consistent identity.
After starting the season a top five team, the Longhorns struggled at times but were still able to hang around in the top-25 rankings throughout the season.
While they didn’t get the automatic bid that they would have gotten, had they not been upset in the first round of the Big 12 tournament by TCU and won the conference tournament, they still put together a good enough season to receive an at large bid on selection Sunday.
The Longhorns were named as a No. 6 in the East region, which is headlined by schools such as Baylor, Purdue, Kentucky, and UCLA.
Texas’ first game will be on Friday, where they take on the No. 11 seed Virginia Tech Hokies who are one of the hottest teams in the nation, and are coming off a huge win over Duke in the ACC conference tournament.
The Longhorns on the other hand have lost five of their last eight games, and will need to wake up quickly, otherwise Texas will be an early exit…again.