Scott Wachter-USA TODAY SportsThree hundred and thirty-six days ago, a dazed Texas Longhorns team took the court at the Moody Center to face off against the Rice Owls under the haze of Chris Beard’s arrest that morning for felony assault charges.
Roughly eleven months later, the Longhorns will once again take the court against the Owls on Wednesday in the Mood looking vastly different — Beard was fired back in January, five weeks before the charge against him was dropped by the Travis County district attorney, and is now the head coach for the Rebels in Oxford. Interim head coach Rodney Terry assumed the position permanently. The specter of NCAA Tournament failure no longer hangs over the…
