Barking Carnival

The Balbay Effect. When you’re the only true point guard on the roster, it stands to reason that you’ll be the focal point on any given team, especially when that team has the array of talented scorers and finishers that Texas has. My contention is that for Texas to be its most efficient […]

It’s that time again. The weather is changing, leaves are turning, and I’m only running my A/C during the day. Yep, it’s almost basketball season, and the 2008 Texas hoops squad is already mixing it up with some of the country’s elite programs with a scrimmage vs. Davidson earlier this week and an […]

Shooting guard Daniel Bejarano of Phoenix North high school committed to Texas last night. The 6′5″ 200 lb Bejarano is considered by Rivals to be the #2 shooting guard and #16 overall player in the 2010 class.

Bejarano picked Texas over UCLA, Kansas and Indiana among others.

Texas is in negotiations with North Carolina for a 4-game series, that would start with a game Jerry Jones’ new stadium in Arlington.
The series would be set up where two games would be played at major sites off campus for each school and then have a another game on each others campus.
Jones is bidding for […]

I know it’s football, football, football the week of ou, but with the recent commit from Jordan Hamilton and his other brother Jordan Hamilton , I thought it would be a good time to get an unbiased, straight talk assessment. So naturally, I called up my AAU coaching friend to get an unwashed scouting […]

Forward Jordan Hamilton of Los Angeles Dominguez committed to Texas today. Huge pickup. He’s ranked #5 in Rivals 150 for 2009, and Texas already has commits from #8 Avery Bradley and #64 Shawn Williams.
Rick Barnes is putting together a monster class.

I know for a lot of folks, basketball doesn’t even begin until after football season, but UT will start practice in a few weeks, and Rick Barnes will welcome back four starters off last years Elite Eight squad.
As Barnes comments about each of the players in this article, a pattern emerges - one that has been a […]

New Texas assistant coach Chris Ogden’s first commitment is a big one. Bradley is a 6′3″ shooting guard from Henderson NV Findlay Prep who Rivals ranks as the #8 player in the class of 2009. Bradley is great on both ends of the court. He can score, but he also loves to play defense and […]

ESPN announced yesterday that Chris, Kirk, Lee, and Desmond (how does he still draw a paycheck?) are going to be in Gainesville for the Miami-Florida match-up. That should tell you how shitty this week’s games are since this is not 2001 and Florida is favored by 3 touchdowns.
That will be Florida’s 28th appearance on […]

BevoBeat bears the bad news.

Rick Barnes statement on J’Covan Brown:
J’Covan Brown will not be enrolled at Texas during the upcoming Fall semester. However, we do expect J’Covan to earn admission to The University of Texas and join our basketball program at some point.

J’Covan Brown statement:
I’m very disappointed that I will not be at The University […]

Next year’s basketball team will have more 4s and 5s than Sooner binary.
This is a problem. A good problem.
So let’s conjecture unfairly as to which of them might be transferring or redshirting and which will be making many two point dunk shots on gametracker.
First, the possible return of Damion James - […]

The game wasn’t available here in California. The local Fox affiliates were showing a Communal Kiln Building Exercise, lacrosse (OMG, pass it to Taylor; Cody, pass it to Taylor!), and the District Ashram Championships in boogey boarding.
Don’t worry. Not seeing the game doesn’t preclude me from expert analysis. I’m […]

Sophomore Tristan Thompson of St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, N.J. has committed to play for Texas. Fortunately we didn’t wait until 2010 before we made contact.
Thompson, a 6′8″ 215 pound power forward, is originally from Canada and is a big Kevin Durant fan. Durant was here only one year, but Rick Barnes is smart enough […]

That was as satisfying a win as any we’ve had this year.
If you’re not fully and totally in love with this basketball team, you possess the soul of a cane toad. You should be captured, drowned in formaldehyde, and dissected by blunt scalpel.
Speaking of scalpels and dissection, this one is […]

On Mike Tirico’s ESPN radio show (HT: Hornfans Basketball Forum)
Here’s the direct radio link
The money summary quote:
He was just on Tirico’s radio show and said of the Mizzou game they were terrible and he couldn’t let it go. Said he coached angry for 2 weeks after and the team playing poorly was his fault. It […]

The Big 12
Kansas 9-2
Texas 9-2
Kansas State 8-2
Texas A&M 6-5
Baylor 5-5
Oklahoma 5-5
Texas Tech 4-6
Iowa State 4-7
Missouri 4-7
Oklahoma State 4-7
Nebraska 3-7
Colorado 2-8

We’re down to three players for the league title: KU, Texas, & KSU.
Kansas:
@ Oklahoma State
@ Iowa State
KSU
TTU
@ A&M
Prognosis: The schedule sets up nicely for Kansas with the best chance for a loss at […]

He’s been cleared to play beginning in 2008.
He’ll replace Justin Mason in the starting lineup.
Because I stopped watching basketball the day one Dwayne Kenneth Schintzius retired from the NBA, I’ll leave it to others to determine the significance of this event.