The Texas Longhorns football team finished what only a decade or so ago was the second biggest sport in Austin: Spring Football. It wasn’t quite the case this year as it was the day between the Texas basketball team’s win against Stanford and loss to Memphis. However, over 40,000 fans took a couple hours Saturday afternoon to watch the preview for what the 2008 Longhorns may look like. “Tradition” beat “Pride” 17-7, which is essentially meaningless, but some of the position battles were worth looking at.

Quarterback

The Texas Longhorns enter the tournament with one of the best teams they've had in the Rick Barnes era, and considering where they'll be playing, the Horns probably have the 2nd best team in terms of the path they will take on the road to the Final Four.

Texas Longhorns
26-5, 13-3 Big 12
RPI: 5
Projected Seed: 1-3

Seed Explanation

Texas basketball is getting pretty redundant these days, continuing their "dominant at home, pull 'em out on the road" style Monday against Kansas St, beating the typically pain in the butt Wildcats 74-65. Kansas St had beaten the Horns in pretty much every other sport possible this past year or so, just ask football, or Kevin Durant, or even women's basketball and Sunday baseball.

The Texas Longhorn basketball program until the last 10 years have had very few moments of glory, only a couple Final Fours in the 40's and a couple solid teams in the late 80s-early 90s "BMW" run that included an Elite 8 appearance. After the program has boomed with four sweet 16 appearances, and elite 8 appearance, and a final 4 in the last 10 years, the program has produced several quality NBA players under the watch of Rick Barnes. Here's a list and what they've done so far (in alphabetical order):