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Today is March 14, 2025. And on this date in Texas history, the women’s basketball team began its run through the 1986 NCAA tournament.
To open the 1986 NCAA tournament, the top-ranked Longhorns recorded a 108-67 win over Missouri. The Longhorns made 75% of their shots in the 41-point rout of the Tigers, and that .750 shooting percentage trails only the .779 mark that UT recorded against Miami earlier in the 1985-85 season in the school record books.
Thirty-nine years later, that 108-point game remains UT’s only 100-point game over its 36 appearances in the NCAA tournament.
The manhandling of Missouri was the first of five wins for Texas in the 1986 NCAA tournament. With a 97-81 win over USC on March 30, Texas secured its first national championship. Texas also became the NCAA’s first undefeated champion in women’s basketball.
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas women’s basketball beat Missouri in 1986 NCAA tournament opener
