The Texas women’s basketball team will take the court against UCLA in Friday’s Final Four game in Phoenix. The winner plays South Carolina or UConn in Sunday’s national championship game.<\/p>\n
It’s the second straight year that the Longhorns have advanced to the NCAA tournament semi-final game. The last time that kind of back-to-back happened was in 1987 when the team was coached by the legendary Jody Conradt.<\/p>\n
Conradt remains the only coach to lead a Texas women’s basketball team to a national championship. Her 1986 team went 34-0, becoming the first team in NCAA history to complete a perfect season.<\/p>\n
The team’s current coach, Vic Schaefer, is looking to change that in his sixth year leading the program. <\/p>\n
“They’re certainly the best team I’ve had at Texas. No question,” Schaefer said at a news conference after the team’s 77-41 win over Michigan on Monday. “This team, they got a chance [at a national championship.]”<\/p>\n
Schaefer also praised the team’s work ethic and chemistry, both on and off the court.<\/p>\n
“They’re playing for each other. They’re having fun. We have really good leadership right now. This is what happens when you have all that come together,” he said. <\/p>\n
But Schaefer also acknowledged: “We know we’ve got a big challenge in front of us on Friday, a great team.”<\/p>\n
Tip off is at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas women’s basketball team will take the court against UCLA in Friday’s Final Four game in Phoenix.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[90282,89881,90283,48876,27,22109,29,537,28,34752,90284,90285],"class_list":{"0":"post-233343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-final-four-games","9":"tag-final-four-schedule","10":"tag-longhorn-basketball","11":"tag-march-madness","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-basketball","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-longhorns","16":"tag-texas-news","17":"tag-texas-womens-basketball","18":"tag-what-time-does-the-texas-game-start","19":"tag-when-does-texas-play"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233343","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=233343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}