Texas Longhorns NCAA Basketball Betting
For head coach Rodney Terry and the Texas Longhorns, the 2024-25 season was a major disappointment. Terry led Texas to the Elite Eight in 2023 as the interim coach after taking over during the season for Chris Beard, who was forced out because of personal issues. Terry earned the permanent role in 2023-24 and oversaw a mediocre final season in the Big 12. This year, Texas and Terry were outclassed as new members of the SEC. Texas is a school that prints money with an ego and sense of entitlement that comes with that. Going 6-12 in the SEC and bowing out meekly in the First Four is not acceptable on the 40 acres.
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2025 Texas Longhorns Season Recap
Overall, the Texas Longhorns are 19-15 straight up, 14-16-1 against the spread, and 18-12-1 over/under the total. Texas has national metrics of 75th for scoring offense, 95th for field goal percentage, 64th for 3-point field goal percentage, 91st for free throw percentage, and 116th for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Texas is 161st for scoring defense, 98th for field goal percentage permitted, 200th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 181st for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Texas has covered three of its previous ten games and has gone over the total in nine of its last ten outings. Tre Johnson is first among Texas scorers, with 20.3 per game.
Marcus Foster sank four clutch 3-pointers and scored a team-high 22 points to help Xavier rally past Texas 86-80 in the NCAA Tournament’s final First Four game.
The final seven minutes featured intense momentum swings, with Texas losing a 10-point lead, Xavier building a four-point lead, and the Longhorns rallying to tie.
Tre Johnson finished with 23 points for Texas, while Tramon Mark added 16 points and five assists. Kadin Shedrick contributed 11 points and seven rebounds.
In the first half, Texas took advantage of a Xavier team that had gotten off to a shaky start in front of a heavily partisan Musketeers crowd at the University of Dayton Arena, less than 50 miles from the Xavier campus.
Freemantle picked up his second foul just five-plus minutes into the game, and he was subbed out. With the team struggling to find offense without him, Xavier coach Sean Miller put Freemantle back into the game less than three minutes later.
Then, with just under six minutes left in the first half, Xavier’s Ryan Conwell was whistled for his third foul and subsequently took a seat. Texas took advantage by going to the paint, outscoring Xavier 26-16 in the lane before halftime.
The Musketeers appeared to gain valuable momentum just before the half on Jerome Hunter’s straightaway 3-pointer that cut Texas’ lead to six. But Mark answered with a drive into the paint and a floater that beat the buzzer and put Texas ahead 47-39 entering halftime.
Xavier cut the deficit to four and had several chances to get closer early in the second half but didn’t do so. Freemantle picked up his third foul with 13:20 remaining. On the ensuing possession, Johnson knocked down a trey to expand the Longhorns’ lead to 62-52.
The score was 78-78 with 1:48 to go before Freemantle scored the Musketeers’ next four points on a jumper and two foul shots. A jumper from Swain with 20 seconds left put Xavier up 84-79.
After the loss, which concluded a disappointing season, Rodney Terry made a plea for his further employment as the Texas head coach.
"I've been at Texas 13 years, and there's not a year I haven't made the NCAA Tournament or been a part of the NCAA Tournament," Terry said. "I have a lot of pride in terms of being a Longhorn. I love being at Texas. I don't think anyone has been a part of Texas basketball that's been more successful than myself. I've been a part of the top five seasons in this program's history of this program.”
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2025 |
Lost First Four vs. (11) Xavier, 80–86 |
| 2024 |
Lost Second Round vs. (2) Tennessee, 58–62 |
| 2023 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (5) Miami FL 81–88 |
| 2022 |
Lost Second Round vs. (3) Purdue, 71–81 |
| 2021 |
Lost First Round vs. (14) Abilene Christian, 52–53 |
| 2018 |
Lost First Round vs. (7) Nevada, 83–87 (OT) |
| 2016 |
Lost First Round vs. (11) Northern Iowa, 72–75 |
| 2015 |
Lost Second Round vs. (6) Butler, 48–56 |
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