num_pages: 156
description: With 50,000 students in Austin and hundreds of thousands of alumni across the state, Longhorn sports fans outnumber actual longhorns by a wide margin. This enormous fan base will be thrilled to find – at long last – the ultimate book about the men’s basketball team that has been front-page news for decades. Readers can finally get the details about 5-foot-11 guard Slater Martin, the only Longhorn currently in the Basketball Hall of Fame; Harold Bradley, who defected from coaching Duke to lead the Longhorns to three conference titles; Jack Gray , a 1930s star and the first player in the NCAA to use a one-hand shot; 1978 National Coach of the Year Abe Lemons, who loved to tell jokes at press conferences; Tom Penders’ “Running Horns” of the 1990s; 2003 Player of the Year T.J. Ford; and 6-foot-7 Larry Robinson, probably the best player in team history, who turned pro and moved to Sweden to play ball in the early 1970s.A HUGE audience eagerly awaits this fine collection of stories about Longhorns men’s basketball.Bill Little has covered UT sports for forty years, primarily for the Austin American-Statesman. He is also the author of Stadium Texas Longhorns. 
language: English
title: Hoop Tales: Texas Longhorns Men's Basketball
titlecomplete: Hoop Tales: Texas Longhorns Men's Basketball (Hoop Tales Series)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Globe Pequot Pr