Texas is BACK in the national title conversation!

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Texas is back, with one of the best coaches in America in Chris Beard and a stacked roster. What is the impact on college basketball if the Longhorns win it all? What will it tell you if they underachieve?

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Borzello: It's a fascinating storyline to watch. No one has done what Beard is attempting to do this season. There have been teams stacked with transfers, but not to this extent. This is six of the top 30 transfers in the country added to a roster that returned four players from a team that won the Big 12 tournament and earned a 3-seed in the NCAA tournament. There's a level of proven college talent rarely seen in the modern era. It's akin to the first few rosters that John Calipari built solely with elite freshmen, just adapted to the transfer portal age.

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I'd hate to see what we'd do to current day Cal.

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Lunardi: If we've learned one thing about Beard, it's that he consistently gets the most out of the group in front of him. I expect nothing less this year in Austin. Beard hit the ground running at Texas and will be anything but a total flop. A Final Four run is a more likely outcome than any hint of disappointment.

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"TU associate Joe Lunardi probably read this from a Ketch post"

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Medcalf: Before John Calipari won a national title with Anthony Davis and Co. in 2012, a multitude of college basketball coaches had decided that the one-and-done era would ruin the sport. Then, after Kentucky won, they realized that they had to battle Calipari and their peers for those players. You don't hear coaches calling out "one-and-done culture" the way they did a decade ago.

A Texas national title run with this transfer-backed crew would have a similar impact. The Longhorns would be the second consecutive team to win a national title with the help of key transfers. It would highlight the significance of the transfer portal for both coaches and players who would watch a group of their peers come together to form a title team. That's NBA-like. That could happen in college basketball and change the sport.

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Now we're not only winning the title, we're going to change the sport itself.

Y'all are lucky you get a couple seasons to step your game up before we start playing. Unfortunately you'll also be going against the reigning back to back champs.

Get up Longhorn nation cause we'reee bacckkkkkk.



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