Texas Basketball Coach Slams UCF Players for ‘Classless’ Horns Down Gesture
Following Wednesday night’s 77–71 home loss to UCF, Texas coach Rodney Terry walked through the handshake line and talked sternly to Knights players, calling their “horns down” gestures classless.
Instead of focusing on what his team did wrong in defeat, the story coming out of Wednesday night’s game centered around Terry’s reaction to UCF’s celebration following the school’s big road win in Austin.
“I’m a big believer in you win the right way, you lose the right way… you carry yourself the right way,” Terry said in the postgame press conference. “You don’t go through the handshake line, or prior to getting to the handshake line, and have about six or seven guys putting horns down. We don’t do that.”
“When you do those kind of things it looks very classless and it also looks like you were just hoping to win,” Terry continued. “We never go into games hoping to win, we go into games expecting to win, so we don’t act like that. We expect to win.”
One way for Texas to prevent this from happening on its home floor would be to start playing better basketball. The Longhorns have lost three out of four to start Big 12 play and appear to be heading in the wrong direction as the calendar moves into late January.
Texas entered the season expecting to be an NCAA tournament team, but the results say otherwise. The Longhorns return to the floor on Saturday at home against No. 9 Baylor.
