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  • 1986
  • 2005
  • Texas Womens Basketball 1986

    1986 NCAA Champs in Women’s Basketball

    The 1986 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament began on March 12 and ended on March 30. The tournament expanded to 40 teams from 32. The Final Four consisted of Texas, Tennessee, Western Kentucky, and USC, with Texas defeating Southern California, 97-81 in the championship game. Texas’s Clarissa Davis was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament. With their ...
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  • Texas Baseball World Series Champs 2005

    2005 Texas Baseball College World Series Champs

    The 2005 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was held from May 30 through June 26, 2005. Sixty-four NCAA Division I college baseball teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament, to play in the NCAA Tournament. The tournament culminated with 8 teams in the College World Series at historic Rosenblatt Stadium ...
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The Texas Longhorns are the athletic team representing the University of Texas at Austin. The teams are sometimes referred to as the Horns and take their name from Longhorn cattle that were an important part of the development of Texas, and are now the official "large animal" of the U.S. state of Texas. Generally, both the men's and women's teams are referred to as the Longhorns, and the mascot is a Texas Longhorn steer named Bevo. The Longhorns have consistently been ranked as the biggest brand in collegiate athletics, in both department size and breadth of appeal.

The Longhorn nickname had begun appearing in Texas newspapers by 1900.

The University of Texas at Austin is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. It offers a wide variety of varsity and intramural sports programs and was selected as "America's Best Sports College" in a 2002 analysis by Sports Illustrated. Texas was also listed as the number one Collegiate Licensing Company client from 2005 - 2013 in regards to the number of annual trademark royalties received from the sales of its fan merchandise.

Until Athletic Director Chris Del Conte altered the organizational structure of the athletic department in 2017, Texas was the only remaining NCAA Division I school to operate separate men's and women's athletic departments, after the other remaining holdout, the University of Tennessee, merged its men's and women's athletic departments at the end of the 2011 - 2012 academic year.





College Sports Established
1915

Location
Austin, Texas

College Name
University of Texas at Austin

Collegiate History
1973 - Present / NCAA Division 1
1921 - 1973 / University Division of the NCAA
1915 - 1921 / Athletic Association of the United States

Conference History
1996 – Present / Big 12 Conference
1915 - 1996 / Southwest Conference

Nickname
Longhorns - The Texas football team was known as "The Varsity" prior to 1906, but a smattering of references to the name "Longhorn" by sportswriters can be found. In 1906, "Longhorns" became official. This was in reference to the cattle that were associated with Texas, and the courage, strength and tenacity that these particular animals display.

NCAA Championships
Baseball 6
2005, 2002, 1983, 1975, 1950, 1949

Men's Basketball 0

Women's Basketball 1
1986

Football 0

Soccer 0

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