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Emotional Shaka Smart returns as Texas players regain availability

On Sunday, Texas Longhorns head coach Shaka Smart was back on the practice floor with his team following a battle with COVID-19. All of his players were there, too — the first time in 19 days the entire team was able to practice together after a coronavirus outbreak.

Along with Smart, all 11 scholarship players are expected to be available for Tuesday’s monumental home game against No. 2 Baylor, as long as Monday’s tests are negative.

Smart admitted that after experiencing “significant symptoms” following his positive test, he might have overdone it a little bit in his Sunday return, a sign of the toll that the novel coronavirus took on his health.