NCAA Basketball: 10 candidates to replace Chris Beard as Texas HC

Brad Underwood

There’s one last power conference head coach on today’s list and this one checks a lot of the potential boxes. Underwood has Big 12 experience, as a player, assistant, and head coach. He’s been successful at multiple schools, with significant success coming in the very state of Texas. Would he make the jump to Austin?

He played at Kansas State and was an assistant there for half a decade. He’s been a successful junior college head coach and took Stephen F. Austin to multiple Tourney upsets and a plethora of wins. After just one season leading Oklahoma State, he bolted for a better offer from Illinois in 2017. Underwood has led the Illini to Big Ten titles in each of the last two seasons, winning the tournament two years ago and the regular season title last season.

Underwood has shown his capability of building a team with recruits and the Transfer Portal, and he’s shown the ability to win everywhere he’s gone. A winner like that would do wonders in Texas, where he’s already hit home runs with those Lumberjacks just under a decade ago. He’s revitalized basketball at Illinois and would be sorely missed, and that’s almost all you need to know about his pedigree.

We’ve looked closely and ran through ten candidates for the Texas job; do you think any of these are going to be the next head coach of the Longhorns?