Unlike in past couple of years, Texas has an undeniably strong presence in this year’s NCAA Basketball tournament with a record-tying 7 teams in the 68 team field vying for the Final Four in San Antonio.  In no particular order, Texas Tech, Stephen F. Austin, Houston, Texas A&M, Texas Southern, TCU and UT have made the field.  Red thinks Tech and TCU have the best shot at a Final Four appearance, but he is almost always wrong about such things.

In fact, a Texas school has not been in the Final Four since 2003 when the University of Texas came on strong for its third Final Four shot.  But, UTEP is the only other Texas team to have made a Final Four and won the only NCAA Championship for a Texas team with its upset of Kentucky in 1966.  Maybe this is the year.