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  1. When it comes to student attendance, Chris Beard is slowly but surely changing Texas basketball culture – The Daily Texan Finance senior Spencer Van Gelder was one of the students denied entry. Saturday’s game was the first time that he was turned away from the Frank Erwin Center. “We went to the student section entrance,” Van Gelder said. “At that gate, they told us that they weren’t letting any more students in.” For Texas, a full student section is almost unheard of. The last time a men’s basketball game sold out was in 2016, when Texas hosted No. 1 Kansas. After Saturday’s 52-51 win over Tennessee, Beard thanked the fans that sold out the Drum for affecting the outcome of the game. “Today’s crowd was the best in college basketball,” Beard said. “There might have been one as good, but there wasn’t one better and they helped us win the game.” Beard has gone out of his way to incentivize students to show up to games and build a home-court advantage. The head coach visited multiple fraternity houses in the preseason, hosted a party at the UT tower for the student body in November and hosted an event on campus called “Coach Beard and Coach Beard,” interviewing actor Brendan Hunt from the popular TV show Ted Lasso. The program also continues to provide freebies for students that show up to games. Free breakfast tacos were given out to the first 500 students that showed up to the Jan. 22 game against Oklahoma State, which had 13,203 people in attendance. The Erwin Center’s total capacity is 16,540. Beard is slowly but surely building up a basketball culture at Texas that aims to compare to blue blood programs like Kansas and Kentucky. He and his team have already experienced the environment of a “basketball school” — loud and sold-out student sections. Texas’ game against Gonzaga was a “tent city” game for the Bulldogs with students camping out days in advance of the game to secure their seats inside the arena.
  2. I get confused, do we give all of the credit to RT for last season, or are we still calling him a first year coach?
  3. This team has two high level offensive players, the rest are unreliable at best, inept at worst. Abmas looks bad some games because we can’t punish teams offensively for over playing him. He is successful in spite of the roster. Disu is basically the same, and when he goes out Max is 5 on 1 offensively. And RT fucked up putting Horton back in the starting 5. Our best chance for high level wins is to surround Disu and Max with our three best defenders and Brock.
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    Test has to be considered a W, no?
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    Amazon visuals
  6. The refs in the first 5 mins of the second half had a big part of it.
  7. Garbage refs but this game is who we have been all season. We can look fantastic or we can lose to anyone. We are simply mediocre.
  8. Should have been an And one for Disu
  9. Defense has looked good so far. Zone wrinkle worked for a bit with Mitchell up top.
  10. Was looking forward to Whitmore getting extended mins with Apli out.
  11. Helmut Marko on Yuki and Ricciardo's performances: "Yuki's qualifying performance was very good and Ricciardo will have to come up with something soon."
  12. I can agree, but if he doesn't win a game in the tournament are we really spiking the football for a .500 conference record and not missing the tournament?
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    For under $20 Jets CP has been kicking the shit out of V313 CP
  15. Desperate people charging the trucks could lead to a security nightmare and some bad decisions by the soldiers? A port could be easier to control/secure?
  16. His roster build this year has been his biggest negative. If Tre Johnson is not outstanding next season, they may miss the tournament. Beard built an elite 8 roster in two seasons. RT will be starting over from scratch in his year 2
  17. RT saved this season and will produce the minimum expectation by making the tournament. That’s not going to get him fired in year one or two, but is not the expectation most fans have for the program moving forward (especially with the resources UT has). Most fans don’t see a foundation for much improvement next season with the expected personnel losses, but things can change quickly with the portal. Many fear we will be in the same position or worse next year, and nothing accomplished so far has changed that perception.
  18. Brolin trying to act human failed for me.
  19. Do they have BINGO?
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