The @rLonghornNation folks asked me to help them come up with the best Texas basketball games from the last decade & I gave handed them ~20 to choose from. While going from year to year in quick succession, one thing became clear: I've memory-hold a lot of crushing Texas losses

Texas started 2010 as the #1 team in the country and it's been a baseline of emotional pain since

Whether it's the half-dozen or so OT losses of the '18 season or the 11-22 season or the rock fight against Butler that ended Barnes' tenure or the Radford loss or

I actually said out loud to myself "oh no that's a different crushing loss to Baylor than the one I was thinking of"

This decade includes Snoop fucking up the final play in Lawrence AND the Arizona five seconds call AND the game where Iowa State led for literally 0 seconds and won

There's the CBI loss to Houston AND the loss to Chaminade AND the UNI buzzer beater

Flipping through the last 10 years has been like somebody convinced me to mainline heroin except it's actually the tears of homeless children flooding my system

If you know someone who cares about Texas basketball, please tell them not to do this. It's drinking from a firehose attached to a fire hydrant of regret

This goes double for @jeffchaley @LonghornRdTrip @InsideTexasHoop @JC_Hoops @JonathanTjarks do not do this for the love of whichever deity to which you subscribe