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Well, it's been a heck of a busy a couple of weeks for the Texas longhorns.

And let's go down to Austin and talk to our guy, Justin Wells, inside Texas.

They are doing great work covering those longhorns.

I'm Pete Mundo.

We're Heartland College Sports.com.

All right, Justin, let's start on the hardwood because we've now got a new head coach, Chris Beard,

coming from Texas Tech, shaking up the big 12 here.

And before I get to my first question for Justin, be sure to leave a rating and a review,

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Let me ask you this. First off, Justin, is Shaka Smart still the head coach if he beats Abilene Christian but loses in the second

round? I don't believe so. No, I think he had to make it to the second weekend. I think he had to make

it to the sweet 16, especially coming from a season, his best season on the 40 acres coming off of a

big 12 championship in the tournament.

And really a three seed going through the gauntlet of the Big 12 that was absolutely just brutal,

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