{"id":380175,"date":"2026-07-20T22:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380175\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:47:16","slug":"texas-vs-baylor-basketball-longtime-rivals-resume-series-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380175\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs Baylor basketball: Longtime rivals resume series, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas basketball<\/a>\u00a0will renew its rivalry with former conference foe Baylor Nov. 15 at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, according to a report Monday.<\/p>\n

Texas officials did not immediately confirm the news, and College Hoops Today reported\u00a0 <\/a>“there is no timetable on an official announcement.” However, such reports often precede official word by the schools or event promoter since contracts take a few days to finalize.<\/p>\n

Texas competed against Baylor for decades in the Southwest Conference and the Big 12 before the Longhorns left for the SEC prior to the 2024-25 school year. The Longhorns lead the all-time series 164-98, which includes a\u00a0dramatic 75-73 in January 2024<\/a> in a Big 12 contest.\u00a0After that game, coaches for both schools said the programs would likely resume the series at some point as a nonconference matchup between two schools separated by 100 miles of Interstate 35.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a great rivalry; it really is,\u201d said Rodney\u00a0Terry<\/a>, who served as the Longhorns’ head coach for three seasons before getting fired by Texas in March 2025. “Yeah, I think there’s going to be opportunities in the future to continue to be able to play. … We recruit the same players, and you want to play the best in the country. Why not when you have that close proximity?\u201d<\/p>\n

Former coach: Texas vs. Baylor a win-win<\/p>\n

Longtime Baylor coach Scott Drew, who led the Bears to their only national championship in 2021, also said after that game that the series against Texas has helped both programs when it comes to recruiting in-state players and raising the profile of all collegiate programs in Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s good for the state,\u201d Drew said. \u201cI think the state’s really benefited from us playing, so I’m sure we’ll do something. I don’t know if there will be an every-year thing, but I have a lot of respect for what Texas does for the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 262 games against Baylor marks the most matchups against any opponent for Texas. All of those games came during the regular season or conference tournament in the SWC or the Big 12. The teams haven’t played each other since Baylor’s 93-85 win March 4, 2024, in Waco.<\/p>\n

Second-year coach\u00a0Sean Miller<\/a> led Texas to the Sweet 16<\/a> in his first season in Austin, and his schedule for the upcoming season keeps coming into focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The SEC schedule<\/a> has\u00a0been determined, although exact dates and times haven’t been set.\u00a0Texas will host Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas A&M in Moody Center. Its road trips include matchups against Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n

In nonconference play, Texas will play Georgetown and either UCLA or St. Mary’s at the Rady Children’s Invitational Nov. 26-27 in San Diego, Calif. The Longhorns will visit Louisville Dec. 1 and host Memphis Dec. 16 at Moody Center.<\/p>\n

Texas revamped its roster<\/a> on the recruiting path and in the transfer portal and looks poised to enter the season as a ranked team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas basketball\u00a0will renew its rivalry with former conference foe Baylor Nov. 15 at Frost Bank Center in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3689,19752,19753,27,29,537,19751,28],"class_list":["post-380175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-baylor-bears","tag-men-s-college-basketball","tag-sean-miller","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\/380175","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=380175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}