{"id":206130,"date":"2026-03-15T23:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206130\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:07:11","slug":"social-media-reacts-to-texas-making-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206130\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media reacts to Texas making NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Longhorns (18-14) will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-basketball-ncaa-tournament-first-four-22078032.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">make the NCAA Tournament<\/a> for the sixth straight year. But it&#8217;s the second straight year Texas will play\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-basketball-ncaa-tournament-first-four-22078032.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the First Four;<\/a> this year it is against North Carolina State in Dayton, Ohio and the winner will be the 11th seed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the men&#8217;s basketball team making the Big Dance, Texas fans took to social media to share the relief that the Longhorns are still playing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longhorns (18-14) will\u00a0make the NCAA Tournament for the sixth straight year. But it&#8217;s the second straight year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48876,81012,21172,3112,27,29,537,19751,28],"class_list":["post-206130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-march-madness","tag-march-madness-tournament","tag-ncaa-buzz","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}