The Texas Longhorns basketball program isn’t back yet, but head coach Shaka Smart will be for the 2020-21 season, his sixth with the program, athletics director Chris Del Conte told the Austin American-Statesman on Friday.
“Shaka’s our coach,” Del Conte told the American-Statesman on Friday. “Nothing’s changed. We won five of the last six down the stretch, finished third in the conference. We have a good team coming back. Nothing’s changed on my end.”
Despite the fact that eight of the team’s 12 losses last season were by 10 or more points, Texas performed in line with the preseason Big 12 expectations — as Del Conte noted, the Horns finished tied for third in the conference standings after Smart’s team was picked to finish fourth.