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Chris Beard Fired as Texas MCBB Head Coach After December Arrest on Felony Charge

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Texas fired men's basketball coach Chris Beard on Thursday and announced Rodney Terry will finish out the 2022-23 season as acting head coach.

Tyler Feldman

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> Chris Beard has been fired as head coach of the Texas men's basketball team. <a href="https://t.co/9BLNJw4JcN">pic.twitter.com/9BLNJw4JcN</a>

Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman added the Longhorns fired Beard for cause. Texas suspended the 49-year-old in mid-December following his arrest on a third-degree felony charge of assault by strangulation, family violence.

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