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Entering the season, most people were not sure what to expect from Texas sophomore guard Andrew Jones. Coming off essentially a season and a half of recovery from leukemia that began in January 2018, it was a welcome surprise that he was not just back on the court, but contributing at a high level.

As conferences began to pull out of major NCAA tournaments in March due to coronavirus concerns, the Texas men’s swimming and diving team first found out that the upcoming national championships was canceled from a tweet. While they understood the possibility of the NCAA canceling the championships, they were still in shock when they read the NCAA’s statement.

Although Imani McGee-Stafford was a star on the Texas women’s basketball team from 2012-2016 and went on to pursue a career in the WNBA, she’s not an athlete who solely “sticks to sports.”

New Texas women's basketball head coach Vic Schaefer is excited to rebuild the the program and return to his roots, he said in a teleconference Monday. Schaefer, a two-time National Coach of the Year, leaves behind a Mississippi State team that finished No. 9 in the AP poll for the 2019-20 season.