Texas Basketball: 3 reasons Longhorns will reach the 2023 Final Four

Rodney Terry has been a perfect fit for these Longhorns

When you replace a coach in the middle of the season it can go one of two ways. Either the team fractures and falls apart or it galvanizes them and they become stronger. For Texas and Rodney Terry, the latter has been true. The Longhorns are now in the NCAA Tournament playing some of their best basketball of the year and a big reason why is Terry.

Terry returned to Texas as an assistant last season where he served in that role for 10 seasons before serving as the head man at Fresno State and UTEP for a total of 10 seasons. He has taken a team that could’ve played much worse given what had just happened to their coach and the gauntlet of Big 12 play in front of them. Instead, they finished in second place and made two big statements to the team that has ruled the conference for the better part of two decades in the process.

The Longhorns have handled what was thrown at them off the court in the best way possible, and now with everything on the line they are playing the best way possible on it. Not only is Rodney Terry a big reason Texas is a threat to get to Houston, but the fact that he has yet to be named the full-time coach yet is also disappointing.