At long last, we have a bracket!<\/p>\n
All across America, diehard hoop-heads, casual viewers, and those of us who are only 70% sure March Madness is even about basketball are coming together. <\/p>\n
In a beautiful display of chaos and hope, we all pursue the impossible: a perfect bracket.<\/p>\n
Before we tip off, we should get to know the Texas teams taking the floor in the 2026 Big Dance. <\/p>\n
This year, seven Texas teams made the cut, up from only five in 2025. <\/p>\n
We have the Houston Cougars continuing their dynastic March run as a No.\u202f2 seed, a couple of mid-ranking contenders in Texas Tech and TCU, and three double-digit seeds looking to shock the world in Texas A&M, Texas, SMU, and Prairie View A&M.<\/p>\n
Houston Cougars<\/p>\n
Seed \/ Region: No.\u202f2 \u2014 South Region<\/p>\n
First-Round Matchup: Idaho (15): Thursday, 9:10 p.m. – truTV<\/p>\n
Record (Overall \/ Conference): 28\u20136 overall, 14\u20134 Big 12 (second place)<\/p>\n
Finish in Conference Tournament: Lost Big 12 Tournament Final to Arizona, 79\u201374<\/p>\n
Best Win This Season: at BYU (77\u201366)<\/p>\n
Worst Loss This Season: Three-game losing streak in mid-February (at Iowa State, vs. Arizona, at Kansas)<\/p>\n
Texas Tech Red Raiders<\/p>\n
Seed \/ Region: No.\u202f5 \u2014 Midwest Region<\/p>\n
First-Round Matchup: Akron (12): Friday, 11:40 a.m. – truTV<\/p>\n
Record (Overall \/ Conference): 22\u201310 overall, 12\u20136 Big 12 (tied for third place)<\/p>\n
Finish in Conference Tournament: Lost Big 12 Tournament Quarterfinal to Iowa State, 75\u201353<\/p>\n
Best Win This Season: at Arizona (78\u201375 OT)<\/p>\n
Worst Loss This Season: at Arizona State (72\u201367)<\/p>\n
TCU Horned Frogs<\/p>\n
Seed \/ Region: No.\u202f9 \u2014 East Region<\/p>\n
First-Round Matchup: Ohio State (8) – Thursday, 11:15 a.m. – CBS<\/p>\n
Record (Overall \/ Conference): 22\u201311 overall, 11\u20137 Big 12 (sixth place)<\/p>\n
Finish in Conference Tournament: Lost Big 12 Tournament Quarterfinal to Kansas, 78\u201373<\/p>\n
Best Win This Season: at Texas Tech (73\u201365)<\/p>\n
Worst Loss This Season: at Colorado (87\u201361)<\/p>\n
Texas A&M Aggies<\/p>\n
Seed \/ Region: No.\u202f10 \u2014 South Region<\/p>\n
First-Round Matchup: Saint Mary\u2019s (7) – Thursday, 6:35 p.m. – truTV<\/p>\n
Record (Overall \/ Conference): 21\u201311 overall, 11\u20137 SEC (tied for fourth place)<\/p>\n
Finish in Conference Tournament: Lost in SEC Tournament Second Round to Oklahoma, 83\u201363<\/p>\n
Best Win This Season: at Georgia (92\u201377)<\/p>\n
Worst Loss This Season: at Oklahoma State (87\u201363)<\/p>\n
Texas Longhorns<\/p>\n
Seed \/ Region: No.\u202f11 \u2014 West Region (First Four)<\/p>\n
First-Round Matchup: NC State (11): Tuesday, 8:15 p.m. – truTV<\/p>\n
Record (Overall \/ Conference): 18\u201314 overall, 9\u20139 SEC (10th place)<\/p>\n
Finish in Conference Tournament: Lost in SEC Tournament First Round to Ole Miss, 76\u201366<\/p>\n
Best Win This Season: at Alabama (92\u201388)<\/p>\n
Worst Loss This Season: vs. Oklahoma (88\u201385 OT)<\/p>\n
SMU Mustangs<\/p>\n
Seed \/ Region: No.\u202f11 \u2014Midwest Region (First Four)<\/p>\n
First-Round Matchup: Miami-OH (11): Wednesday, 8:15 p.m. – truTV<\/p>\n
Record (Overall \/ Conference): 20\u201313 overall, 8\u201310 ACC (tied for 11th place)<\/p>\n
Finish in Conference Tournament: Lost in ACC Tournament Second Round to Louisville, 62\u201358<\/p>\n
Best Win This Season: vs. Louisville (95\u201385)<\/p>\n
Worst Loss This Season: at Syracuse (79\u201378)<\/p>\n
Prairie View A&M Panthers<\/p>\n
Seed \/ Region: No.\u202f16 \u2014South Region (First Four)<\/p>\n
First-Round Matchup: Lehigh (16): Wednesday, 5:40 p.m. – truTV<\/p>\n
Record (Overall \/ Conference): 18\u201317 overall, 9\u20139 SWAC (8th place)<\/p>\n
Finish in Conference Tournament: Won SWAC Tournament Final vs. Southern, 72-66<\/p>\n
Best Win This Season: vs. Southern (72-66)<\/p>\n
Worst Loss This Season: at Wichita State (105-62)<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At long last, we have a bracket! All across America, diehard hoop-heads, casual viewers, and those of us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9551,1770,2692,416,56,2742,58,57,66,2470,1771,223,15750,154,853,3042,1769,5370,513,4100],"class_list":["post-209515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-aggies","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-houston","tag-houston-cougars","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-longhorns","tag-ncaa","tag-news","tag-smu","tag-sports","tag-tcu","tag-texas-am","tag-texas-tech","tag-uh","tag-university-of-houston","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209515","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=209515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}