Whew. Finally.
In the midst of the Texas Longhorns football program’s four-game losing streak, its worst since 2010, basketball is here as new head coach Chris Beard’s team tips off on Tuesday at against the Houston Baptist Huskies in the sendoff season for the Erwin Center.
In the second matchup between the two programs, No. 5 Texas enters as heavy favorites against an opponent projected as one of the worst programs in Division I basketball — the Huskies went 6-19 last season and start the 2021-22 campaign ranked No. 345 out of 358 teams by KenPom.