Less than 2 years ago it appeared Texas and Chris Del Conte hit a home run with the hire of Chris Beard. Here’s Texas next basketball coach.

Who will be the next Texas men’s basketball coach ?

In the fallout of the Chris Beard firing, lots of questions emerged – will the recruits stay ? Who will take over in the meantime ? Will Texas hire from outside, or promote from within ?

Who will be the next Texas men's basketball coach ?

These were questions nobody thought would ever be asked a month ago before the story broke about Beard’s alleged domestic violence against his fiancee.

If Texas wants another homecoming for its head coach, former player Royal Ivey sticks out as a possible option for the gig.

Royal Ivey has been an assistant with the Brooklyn Nets since 2020 after a journeyman’s career in the NBA as a shooting guard, where he played for Atlanta, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Oklahoma City over a 10-year span.

After four very successful seasons at the University of Buffalo, Nate Oats took the head job in Tuscaloosa, coaching the Crimson Tide and bringing a lot of attention to a basketball program that had often been an afterthought due to its being in the shadow of Alabama’s mammoth football program.

It would be an adjustment to go from a grind-it-out team to a finesse-based scoring machine, but Oats would be another monster hire if Texas could pull it off.

There’s also Eric Musselman at Arkansas, Nate Oats at Alabama, and Kelvin Sampson at Houston.

Who will be the next Texas men's basketball coach ?

Eric Musselman is a high-energy coach that recruits prep talent incredibly well and is a master in the portal. He had a top-three high school recruiting class this year according to Rivals, and he’s been to back-to-back Elite Eights with the Razorbacks.

He has a very talented team this season that could stretch that Elite Eight streak to three given a few things break their way and key guys like Nick Smith Jr., the no. 2 recruit in the nation, return.

In the highly competitive SEC, Mussleman has won 85 games to 31 losses overall, performing at a level not seen in Razorback basketball since the Eddie Sutton/Nolan Richardson days in the late Southwest Conference.

By Rishabh

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