{"id":226557,"date":"2026-03-30T05:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226557\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:08:13","slug":"texas-wins-another-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226557\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas wins another national title"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Longhorns won the 2026 NCAA championship Saturday in Atlanta on the back of Hubert Kos’ record-breaking win in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:34.13, which broke his own NCAA and U.S. Open meet and program records. Kos has won back-to-back NCAA titles in both the 200 and the 100-yard backstroke.<\/p>\n

Texas scored 445.5 points to finish ahead of second-place Florida (416) and third-place Indiana (351). It was the third straight national championship won by Longhorns coach Bob Bowman<\/a>, going back to his 2024 national title he won with Arizona State.<\/p>\n

It was the first team national championship for a Texas men’s or women’s program for the 2025-26 academic year. Texas’ women’s basketball team is playing in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament Monday night, Texas’ baseball team is ranked No. 2 in the country and Texas’ softball team is ranked No. 1.<\/p>\n

Over the last six years, Texas has won 14 team national championships by eight different programs.<\/p>\n

Texas’ 400-yard freestyle relay team, made up of Kos, Garrett Gould, Rafael Fente-Damers and Kyle Peck, sealed the championship by placing sixth in 2:45.97, which was a program record. And the 200-yard individual medley saw two Longhorns earn All-America honors, including Baylor Nelson, who finished third (1:40.08).<\/p>\n

Campbell McKean (ninth) and Nate Germonprez (14th) earned honorable mention All-America honors in the 200-yard IM; Peck was 13th (1:39.94) and Cooper Lucas was 14th (1:40.11) in the 200-yard butterfly; Rex Maurer was 11th (1:38.36) in the 200-yard backstroke and Gould was 14th in the 100-yard freestyle (41.47).<\/p>\n

Last year, Kos won three individual titles, setting the NCAA record at 1:34.21 in the 200-yard backstroke.<\/p>\n

Texas won last year’s national championship by scoring 490 points. Indiana finished third in 2025 as well as this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longhorns won the 2026 NCAA championship Saturday in Atlanta on the back of Hubert Kos’ record-breaking win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-226557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226557","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=226557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}