What wound up saving the 2020 Texas basketball recruiting class for a head coach already on a hot seat during the current offseason was Shaka Smart landing five-star hometown power forward Greg Brown. As a potentially elite talent hailing out of Vandegrift High School in Austin, TX, Brown could be a driving force to finally get Smart and Texas back to the NCAA Tournament.
In a season where it looked as if Texas could return to the NCAA Tournament with a red-hot end to the 2019-20 Big 12 slate, the novel coronavirus pandemic spoiled the party for all.