Under interim coach Rodney Terry, now that Chris Beard is officially unemployed.
And every single one of them is with a team ranked in the current Kenpom top 40. Every one. The worst remaining game is with OU (#37).
Fourteen of those 17 would be Q1 based on the current NET rankings and site. (Texas has already played four Q1 games, going 3-1 in those).
Which is to say, if things start going south, they could go WAY south.
Speaking of Texas, in the last 12 years they’ve won a total of five NCAA tournament games. We’ve won six in the last TWO years, and eight since 2015.
They played a wounded Creighton at home; just slipping by. They played Gonzaga early and at home for a W. They played K State at home and lost. They lost to Illiniois at a neutral site. And just eaked by OU on the road. Not great.
But, the former Big 8 is crazy.