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Five Things Shaka Smart Needs to Do at Texas

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It was time for Shaka to go. VCU fans don’t want to hear that, but its true. Shaka Smart had taken the Rams as far as they were ever going to go, a perennial March contender. Now, Smart is the head man in charge at Texas after athletic director Steve Patterson and former head coach Rick Barnes mutually decided to part ways after 17 seasons.

Smart is just 38 years old and has already proven to be one the best coaches in the college game today. In 2011, he took the VCU Rams to the Final Four. Had anyone ever really heard of VCU before then?

Don’t lie, you probably hadn’t.

Smart is inheriting a Longhorn basketball program that greatly underachieved under Barnes, going to just one Final Four back in 2003. Here are five things Shaka Smart will have to do in order to turn around the Texas basketball program.

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Instant Analysis: No. 6 Butler tops Texas

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Two of the country’s best defenses squared off in Jacksonville, and the No. 6 seed Butler held off No. 11 Texas 56-48.

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Instant Analysis: Texas upsets #14 Baylor

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After battling back from a 10-point second-half deficit, Texas upset No. 14 Baylor in OT, 61-59. A bench-clearing scuffle at the 2:06 mark in overtime resulted in the ejection of seven players: John Heard, Johnathan Motley and Ishmail Wanwright for Baylor and Cam Ridley, Connor Lammert, Kendal Yancy, and Prince Ibeh for Texas.

Leading the country in the category, Texas held a block party, stuffing the Bears 12 times. Texas’s Isaiah Taylor who survived ejection after engaging in a scuffle with Baylor’s Royce O’Neale, went on to hit the game winner runner with 5 seconds to play in overtime.

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