Texas Longhorns men's basketball
| Texas Longhorns men's basketball | |||||||||
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| University | University of Texas at Austin | ||||||||
| First season | 1906 | ||||||||
| All-time record | 1,920–1,158 (.624) | ||||||||
| Athletic director | Chris Del Conte | ||||||||
| Head coach | Sean Miller (1st season) | ||||||||
| Conference | SEC | ||||||||
| Location | Austin, Texas | ||||||||
| Arena | Moody Center (capacity: 10,763) | ||||||||
| Nickname | Texas Longhorns | ||||||||
| Colors | Burnt orange and white | ||||||||
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| NCAA tournament Final Four | |||||||||
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| Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions | |||||||||
| 1933 | |||||||||
| Conference tournament champions | |||||||||
| 1994, 1995, 2021, 2023 | |||||||||
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The Texas Longhorns men's basketball team represents the University of Texas at Austin in NCAA Division I intercollegiate men's basketball competition. The Longhorns competed in the Big 12 Conference through the 2023–24 season and moved to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) on July 1, 2024.
The University of Texas began varsity intercollegiate competition in men's basketball in 1906. The Longhorns rank 15th in total victories among all NCAA Division I college basketball programs and 23rd in all-time win percentage among programs with at least 60 years in Division I, with an all-time win–loss record of 1,920–1,158 (.624). Among Southeastern Conference men's basketball programs, Texas is second only to Kentucky in all-time wins and trails only Kentucky and Arkansas in all-time win percentage.
As of the end of the 2024–25 season, the Longhorns have won 29 total conference championships in men's basketball and have made 39 total appearances in the NCAA tournament (ninth-most appearances all time, with a 40–42 overall record), reaching the NCAA Final Four three times (1943, 1947, 2003) and the NCAA regional finals (Elite Eight) eight times. As of the end of the 2024–25 season, Texas ranks fourth among all Division I men's basketball programs for total NCAA Tournament games won without having won the national championship (40), tied with Kansas State and Notre Dame, and trailing Oklahoma (43), Illinois (46), and Purdue (51).
The Texas basketball program experienced substantial success during the early decades of its existence, but its success in the modern era is of relatively recent vintage. After two losing seasons during the program's first five years, Texas suffered only one losing season from 1912 to 1950, achieving a winning percentage of .703 during that span, reaching two Final Fours and one Elite Eight during the first decade of the NCAA Tournament, and receiving retroactive recognition as the 1933 national champion from the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. From 1951 to 1988, the Longhorns finished with losing records 14 times, recorded a winning percentage of .522, and participated in the expanded Tournament only five times. Texas achieved some measure of national recognition during the tenures of head coaches Abe Lemons (1976–82) and Tom Penders (1988–98), but the program rose to its highest level of prominence under the direction of former head coach Rick Barnes (1998–2015). Barnes guided Texas to 16 NCAA tournament appearances in his 17 seasons with the program, including a school-record 14 consecutive appearances (1999–2012), as well as fifteen 20-win seasons overall and a school-best 13 consecutive 20-win seasons (2000–12).
Texas plays its home games in the Moody Center, which opened prior to the start of the 2022–23 season. The team is led by first-year head coach Sean Miller, formerly the head coach at Xavier and Arizona, who was hired on March 24, 2025, following the dismissal of former head coach Rodney Terry.