Game 1:\u00a0#7\/7 TEXAS (0-0, 0-0 SEC) vs. Chicago State (0-0, 0-0 NEC)<\/p>\n
2026-27 Season Opener<\/p>\n
Monday, Nov. 2, 2026 – 8 p.m. Central<\/p>\n
Moody Center (10,763) – Austin, Texas<\/p>\n
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GameDay Quick Facts<\/p>\n
\u2022 TELEVISION: The game will be televised by SEC Network<\/a> with Mike Morgan (pxp) and King McClure (analyst) on the call.<\/p>\n \u2022 RADIO: The Longhorn Radio Network<\/a> broadcasts every UT game on the statewide network. Craig Way (pxp) and Eddie Oran (analyst) will call the action. Check TexasLonghorns.com<\/a> for a listing of affiliates carrying the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 SERIES: Texas leads, 2-0. Last meeting: Texas 105-58 (Nov. 12, 2024; Austin)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Notables<\/p>\n \u2022 FOR OPENERS: The Longhorns have won 21 of their last 24 season openers and posted an overall mark of 98-22 in their previous 120 season-opening games.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 SUCCESS IN HOME OPENERS: The Longhorns have won 24 straight home openers and are 105-15 all-time in home-opening contests.<\/p>\n \u2022 YEAR TWO OF THE MILLER ERA: Sean Miller begins his second season in Austin after leading the Longhorns to the Sweet 16 of the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Miller has guided teams to 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, including four trips to the Elite Eight and nine to the Sweet 16, during his first 21 years as a collegiate head coach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 BLESS THE MOOD: Texas has registered a 53-17 record in Moody Center and averaged 10,816 fans per game (capacity: 10,763) during the arena’s first four seasons.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game 1:\u00a0#7\/7 TEXAS (0-0, 0-0 SEC) vs. Chicago State (0-0, 0-0 NEC) 2026-27 Season Opener Monday, Nov. 2,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-482269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482269","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=482269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}