While the Texas Longhorns finished the 2018-19 basketball season cutting down the nets at Madison Square Garden after winning the NIT, the best feel-good story of the season actually happened at its beginning.
During the opener against Eastern Illinois, guard Andrew Jones took the court at the Erwin Center to a standing ovation 10 months after he was diagnosed with leukemia. The comeback season for Jones probably didn’t unfold in ideal fashion from his perspective — he only played in two games, scoring three points, and didn’t play after receiving further treatment over Christmas break — but it did provide a potential launching point for a truly resurgent season.