The roadway to the 2025 NCAA Males’s Last 4 can see 2 Texas groups making background.
SAN ANTONIO– One week of the Last 4’s main go back to San Antonio, 2 groups from the Lone Celebrity State are attempting to make background.
With Texas Technology and Houston’s victories in the Dessert 16 on Thursday and Friday, specifically, they obtained one action more detailed to ending up being the initial Texas males’s university basketball programs to make it to the Last 4 when it’s kept in the Lone Celebrity State.
This is the 11th time a Texas city has actually held the Last 4, a task presented upon San Antonio (5 times, consisting of 2025), Houston (4 times), Dallas and Arlington. 2018 was the last time the Alamo City held the NCAA Males’s Last 4; that year, Villanova overcame Michigan.
Over the state’s background of holding the males’s Last 4, simply 3 groups discovered themselves in the setting that the Red Raiders and Cougars do currently.
In 2008, the 2-seed Texas Longhorns shed their Elite 8 match 85-67 to 1-seed Memphis, which would certainly take place to be the competition runner-up. Actually, that video game was played in Houston, yet the home-state benefit was out the Longhorns’ side.
Then, in 2018, an additional Texas team dropped simply except getting to the Last 4 at the Alamodome: Texas Technology. The Red Raiders were a 3-seed that year too, yet drew a hard Elite 8 project versus the ultimate champ Villanova.
They dropped, 71-59, in what would certainly wind up being the Wildcats’ narrowest margin of a competition they or else controlled.
Finally, the Longhorns likewise had their shot in 2023 of making it to the Last 4 at Houston’s NRG Arena. However they shed their Elite 8 match to Miami, 88-81.
Fast-forward to this weekend break, when both the Cougars and Red Raiders will certainly be aiming to finish that incomplete company. The groups are desiring for home-state benefit in the Last 4 round and the fastest drive a Texas males’s CBB group has actually ever before needed to that phase in the tourney … yet initially need to scratch another success in the Elite 8 this weekend break.
Texas Technology plays the 1-seeded Florida Gators on Saturday at 5:09 p.m. CT (TBS/TruTV), after defeating 10-seed Arkansas, 85-83, in an overtime success Thursday. Houston– which defeated 4-ssed Purdue in a 62-60 thriller Friday evening– plays 2-seed Tennessee at 1:20 p.m. on Sunday (CBS).
Will both groups make background and plan for a brief trip to the Last 4 following week?
