Horns Pre-Season Ranking: #16

assuming everything goes to plan and we meet #7 Tennessee in the final of the Legends Classic, we'll be seeing two top 10 teams, one on a neutral court and one in their gym (#2 UCLA), over the course of 8 days very early in the season.  could be HUGE for our tournament resume.  we'll need to come together quick.

@Michigan State (#8) and vs. Kansas (#4) give us at least two more chances at a marquee victory, assuming they both stay highly ranked.

man i can't wait for college hoops to come back.

the Roundball RoundUp is tonight at 7(?) at Gregory.  It'll be a water down midnight madness type deal, but both the men's and women's teams will be there for us to get a glimpse.

for those interested, here's the Facebook event description:

You are invited to the first annual Texas Basketball RoundBall RoundUp on Friday, October 26 at 7 pm at Gregory Gym!!! This event is the Texas version of Midnight Madness. The Texas Basketball RoundBall RoundUp will tip-off the Longhorns Men’s and Women’s Basketball seasons for 2007-2008. Both the men’s and women’s teams as well as the coaches will participate in this student-geared event. There will be many opportunities for students to win great prizes. There will also be contests between players and students. Details on Stampede and Ozone tickets will be explained during the event to make sure you know how gain access to Texas Basketball games this season with the purchase of your Longhorn All Sports Package (LASP). Texas-EX DJ Kurupt will keep the beat going on throughout the night. So come out and support your Texas Basketball teams as we begin this new tradition.

Come pre-party with all your friends at the Pre-RoundUp Tip-Off sponsored by Student Government and the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at the Gregory Gym Aquatics Center from 6-6:45 pm. There will be FREE food and prizes in addition to LIVE MUSIC from The Ars Supernova!

As if you didn't know football is king at UT, here's the attendance info: here are currently 400 confirmed guests, 651 might show up, and 1191 are missing out. It's the first time Texas is doing this, but when you compare that to 20,000+ for Kentucky's Midnight Madness, etc., you can see why Rick Barnes is sometimes frustrated about the support of Longhorn basketball.

What a joke. I got there late but there weren't many people there at all. My friend played drum-set for the band, and he was telling me how stupid it was. Didn't help that they decided to do this on a Friday, where everyone's out partying.

The show itself was kinda corny too. There was one game where Gail and Barnes had to look at baby pictures of players and guess who they were. And I swear to God, if I hear that "Crank That Soulja Boy" song one more time, I'm going to kill a kitten.

This was just the first one though. Hopefully it'll get better and better each year.

It was worth it though. They were handing out some big posters and the mens' poster was nice. Included the schedule too.

At the end, we could meet the players and get their autographs. On my poster, I got autographs from Barnes, Augustin, Abrams, James, Johnson, Pittman, Mason, Atchley, Chapman, Hill, Wangmene, Mooney, and Smith. I could not find Dogus Balbay anywhere at the end!

I'd show y'all if I had a scanner, but I don't.

Interesting that we're going with the international flavor a little bit. Dogus is from Turkey and Alexis Wangmene from Cameroon. The ladies have one from Puerto Rico.

It seemed Augustin and James were limping a bit. Either that or it was some gangsta walk or something. I'm not sure. Pittman and Balbay looked fine as far as walking abilities. No limping.