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How Texas players learned to lose themselves in the fight

When Texas Longhorns head coach Shaka Smart arrived in Gainesville as an assistant coach for Billy Donovan in 2008, there was a popular phrase coined by a former player.

“We all we got.”

Two years ago, Smart brought up the phrase with Andrew Jones out battling leukemia and Kerwin Roach II recovering from a fractured hand. Two days later, Texas beat No. 8 Texas Tech at home.

The phrase seems fitting again this season — the Horns aren’t facing the same type of adversity poised by Jones starting his ultimately successful fight against leukemia, but the injuries have once again piled up.