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===Varsity sports=== [[File:Texas entry 2007 Red River Shootout.jpg|right|thumb|[[2007 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas Longhorns football]] playing against [[2007 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]] in the 2007 [[Red River Rivalry]]]] The university's men's and women's athletics teams are nicknamed the Longhorns. Texas has won 50 total national championships,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texassports.com/trads/national-championships.html|title=National Championship|publisher=texassports.com|date=April 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514170137/http://www.texassports.com/trads/national-championships.html|archive-date=May 14, 2013 }}</ref> 42 of which are [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] national championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/summaries/combined.pdf|title=Summary: Championships History |access-date=December 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531045646/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/summaries/combined.pdf|archive-date=May 31, 2011}}</ref> The football team experienced its greatest success under coach [[Darrell Royal]], winning three national championships in 1963, 1969, and 1970. It won a fourth title under head coach [[Mack Brown]] in 2005 after a 41β38 victory over previously undefeated [[University of Southern California|Southern California]] in the [[2006 Rose Bowl]]. The university's [[college baseball|baseball]] team has made more trips to the [[College World Series]] (35) than any other school, and won championships in 1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002, and 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://texassports.com/news/2014/6/7/BB_0607145640.aspx?path=baseball|title=Texas Longhorns Athletics β Baseball defeats Houston, 4β0, for record 35th trip to the College World Series|date=June 7, 2014 |publisher=Texassports.com|access-date=December 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031230441/http://texassports.com/news/2014/6/7/BB_0607145640.aspx?path=baseball|archive-date=October 31, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The Texas Longhorns men's basketball has qualified for the NCAA Final Four three times and achieved 28 conference championships and 38 total appearances in the NCAA tournament.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/texas/men/ | title=Texas Longhorns Men's Basketball Index }}</ref> [[Rick Barnes]] led the Texas Longhorns men's basketball from 1998 to 2015. Under his leadership, the team achieved 16 NCAA Tournament appearances, including a Final Four appearance in 2003.<ref>https://www.statesman.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2024/03/23/rick-barnes-texas-basketball-coach-record-ncaa-tournament-tennessee-vols-march-madness/73068690007/Rick_Barnes{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Shaka Smart]] coached the Texas Longhorns men's basketball from 2015 to 2021. While at UT Austin, Smart's teams made 3 NCAA Tournament appearances.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://texassports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/shaka-smart/1303 | title=Shaka Smart - Men's Basketball Coach }}</ref> Additionally, the university's men's and women's swimming and diving teams lay claim to sixteen NCAA Division I titles, with the men's team having 13 of those titles, more than any other Division 1 team.<ref>[http://www.texassports.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=20&url_article_id=1733&change_well_id=2 Texas Longhorns Official Athletic Site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110093033/http://texassports.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=20&url_article_id=1733&change_well_id=2|date=November 10, 2007 }}</ref> The swim team was first developed under Coach [[Tex Robertson]].<ref name="tc">{{cite web|url=http://www.tsdhof.org/bio-Tex%20Robertson.html|title=Biography β Tex Robertson|access-date=May 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129163045/http://www.tsdhof.org/bio-Tex%20Robertson.html|archive-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref> On June 12, 2020, UT student-athletes banded together with their #WeAreOne statement on Twitter. Among the list of changes included: renaming certain campus buildings, replacing statues, starting outreach programs, and replacing "The Eyes of Texas". UT Interim President Jay Hartzell released a statement on July 13, 2020, announcing the changes to be implemented in light of these demands from UT student-athletes. Hartzell said the university would make a multi-million dollar investment to programs that recruit, retain and support Black students; rename the Robert L. Moore Building as the Physics, Math and Astronomy Building; honor Heman M. Sweatt in numerous ways, including placing a statue of Sweatt near the entrance of T.S. Painter Hall; honor the Precursors, the first Black undergraduates to attend the University of Texas at Austin, by commissioning a new monument on the East Mall; erect a statue for [[Julius Whittier]], the Longhorns' first Black football letterman, at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium; and more. However, one of the most controversial topics on the list β replacing "The Eyes of Texas" as UT's alma mater β remained untouched.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Livengood|first=Paul|title=University of Texas announces numerous changes among student-athletes requests, keeps 'The Eyes of Texas'|url=https://www.kvue.com/article/sports/ncaa/longhorns/texas-longhorns-ut-austin-changes-athletes-eyes-of-texas-stays/269-85fd1b0c-c5dd-4d7e-818f-ec5750d3f8ea|access-date=July 20, 2020|website=[[KVUE]]|date=July 13, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref> * Further information: ''[[Horns Illustrated]]'', print and digital university athletics publication.
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