2019–20 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team explained

Mode:	Basketball
Year:	2019–20
Prev Year:	2018–19
Next Year:	2020–21
Team:	Texas Longhorns
Conference:	Big 12 Conference
Short Conf:	Big 12
Record:	19–12
Conf Record:	9–9
Hc Year:	5th
Asst Coach2:	Neill Berry

The 2019–20 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team represent the University of Texas at Austin in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Shaka Smart and play their home games at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas as members of the Big 12 Conference.

Previous season

The Longhorns finished the 2018–19 season 21–16, 8–10 in Big 12 play to finish in sixth place. They were defeated by Kansas in the first round of the Big 12 tournament. They received an at-large bid to the 2019 National Invitational Tournament as a No. 2 seed. They defeated South Dakota State in the first round, Xavier in the second round and Colorado in the quarterfinals to advance win the Alabama bracket. They advanced to Madison Square Garden where they defeated TCU in the semifinals and Lipscomb in the final to win the program's second-ever NIT Championship (the first was in 1978).

Offseason

Coaching changes

In April 2019, associate head coach Darrin Horn accepted the position of Northern Kentucky head basketball coach.^[1] Smart hired Luke Yaklich as Horn's replacement in May 2019.^[2]

Departures

Name	Number	Pos.	Height	Weight	Year	Hometown	Reason for departure
	10	C	6'11"	220		Cincinnati, OH	Declared for the NBA draft; selected 8th overall by the Atlanta Hawks.
	12	F	6'4"	180		Houston, TX	Graduated
	21	F/C	6'9"	250		San Diego, CA	Graduated
	55	G	6'1"	185		Mississauga, ON	Graduate transferred to UNLV

2020 Recruiting class

Schedule and results

|-!colspan=9 style=|Regular season|-!colspan=9 style=|Big 12 Tournament|- style="background:#bbbbbb"| style="text-align:center"|Mar 12, 2020
11:30 am, ESPN2| style="text-align:center"| (4)| vs. (5) Texas Tech
Quarterfinals| colspan=5 rowspan=1 style="text-align:center"|Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[3] | style="text-align:center"|Sprint Center
Kansas City, MO

Rankings

See also: 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings. *AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Darrin Horn hired as head coach at Northern Kentucky. coachesdatabase.com. Coaches Database. April 24, 2019. November 4, 2019.
2. Web site: Luke Yaklich named Men's Basketball Associate Head Coach. texassports.com. Texas Athletics. May 31, 2019. November 4, 2019.
3. Web site: All Power 5 leagues cancel conference tournaments. ESPN.com.