During the 1979 season, after being featured in years past in the basketball programs, the women’s basketball team issued it’s first media guide. H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Sports and Physical Culture, Jody Conradt Collection
An Evolution: Texas Women’s Basketball
The Longhorns ended the 1984-85 regular season campaign ranked number one in the nation and were to host the Final Four in Austin. Their chase for the championship was cut short, however, when the Longhorns lost a final-second heartbreaker to Western Kentucky in the regional semifinals.
After spending 19 months recovering from a severe knee injury that threatened to end her basketball career, Annette Smith came back strong in the 1985-86season and scored 22 points against USC to become the all-time leading scorer in UT basketball history. Not only did Smith break the record, but she…
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UT Women’s Basketball made their first televised appearance on ESPN against Old Dominion, the defending national champions. Following their victory over OldDominion, it became readily apparent just how talented the 1986 squad was. After the game Old Dominion Coach Marianne Stanley said, “I think Texas is a team of destiny,…
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After No. 1 rankings and high expectations in their previous two seasons, the Longhorns finally capitalized against USC in the 1986 National Championship, making history in the process as the first team to go undefeated at 34-0. Georgia Coach Andy Landers on the 1986 Longhorns: “You could take their…
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