Seven Longhorns named Lage Academic Achievement Award recipients
The Longhorns are winning in and out of the classroom with seven recipients of the Lage Academic Award
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Mar 3, 2021
The University of Texas is an institution first that just so happens have a focal point in athletics. As one of the top schools in the state and across the nation, athletes come to Austin with the intent of enhancing not just their knowledge in the classroom.
A few Longhorns are now being praised for their work outside their respective sports.
Texas Athletics announced Wednesday that seven University of Texas student-athletes are recipients of the 11th annual Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, the Big 12 Conference s highest academic honor.
In the first game against West Virginia on Jan. 9, redshirt junior guard Andrew Jones drained a game-winning 3-pointer on the road to bring Texas to 10–1 on the season and 4–1 in games decided by five points or less.
Published on January 26, 2021 at 11:47 pm
Heading into Tuesday’s game against No. 24 Oklahoma, the fifth-ranked Longhorns were as short-handed as it gets: The team only had the minimum eight players available.
Then, three Longhorns fouled out of Tuesday’s game at the Frank Erwin Center, where Texas’ late comeback run fell just short at the end, 80-79.
But, as ESPN commentator Fran Fraschilla said on the national television broadcast about the Longhorns’ positive COVID-19 cases, “Nobody is going to feel sorry for Texas.”
“It’s the world that we live in and the circumstances we have to deal with every day,” senior guard Matt Coleman said. “No excuses here. Everybody is going through it … and when it comes to basketball, it’s (the same) for every collegiate team.”