With 50,000 students in Austin and hundreds of thousands of alumni across the state, Longhorn sports fans outnumber actual longhorns by a wide margin. This enormous fan base will be thrilled to find - at long last - the ultimate book about the men's basketball team that has been front-page news for decades. Readers can finally get the details about 5-foot-11 guard Slater Martin, the only Longhorn currently in the Basketball Hall of Fame; Harold Bradley, who defected from coaching Duke to lead the Longhorns to three conference titles; Jack Gray, a 1930s star and the first player in the NCAA to use a one-hand shot; 1978 National Coach of the Year Abe Lemons, who loved to tell jokes at press conferences; Tom Penders' "Running Horns" of the 1990s; 2003 Player of the Year T.J. Ford; and 6-foot-7 Larry Robinson, probably the best player in team history, who turned pro and moved to Sweden to play ball in the early 1970s.
A HUGE audience eagerly awaits this fine collection of stories about Longhorns men's basketball.
Bill Little has covered UT sports for forty years, primarily for the "Austin American-Statesman. "He is also the author of "Stadium Stories: Texas Longhorns."
- ISBN10 0762743123
- ISBN13 9780762743124
- Publish Date 1 October 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Globe Pequot Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 156
- Language English