Texas Longhorns basketball stadium Frank Erwin Center

The Texas Longhorns Men's and Women's basketball teams play home games at the Frank Erwin Center and have been playing basketball games there since the 1977-78 season. The Longhorns Frank Erwin Center address is 1701 Red River Street, Austin, Tx 78701. Frank Erwin Center is a basketball arena covered in the burnt orange color that screams Longhorns, and has many banners hanging from the ceiling, listing all the championships of Texas Basketball.

Frank Erwin Center holds 16,734 Longhorn's fans, which is the largest arena seating in the Big 12 Conference. The Longhorns basketball arena has been remodeled to include 28 luxury suites at the top of the arena section as well as a new Jumbotron scoreboard and LCD screen that runs around the top of the arena section. Concession stands and bathrooms have been moved and remodeled, allowing the concourse areas be to be widened.

The arena gets it's name from former UT Board of Regents member Frank Erwin. Erwin was a key part in the expansion of all the Longhorns facilities during his term.

Here is a Texas Longhorns basketball seating chart:
Frank Erwin Center seating chart

Texas Longhorns History of "Hook 'em Horns" hand signal

Have you ever wondered when the "Hook em Horns" hand signal got started? Here is the answer for you! Harley Clark was the head cheerleader at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1955 at a pep rally, he introduced the "Hook 'em Horns" hand signal. His reasoning was that the Longhorns were playing a "fine team" and they had to "make up in spirit what we lacked on the football field." So, at the pep rally, Clark showed the student body how to make the Horns hand sign and as head cheerleader, ordered the sign be used from that point forward.

Clark had gotten the idea of the hand signal from fellow student Henry Pitts, three days before Clark introduced it at the pep rally before playing Texas Christian University.

What might look like a way to show you like heavy metal music to some people, all us Longhorn's fans know better!

Hook 'em Horns!!!

Texas Longhorns basketball January 2012 game schedule

The Texas Longhorns basketball team is still undefeated at home! Do you think the 'Horns can keep up that streak in the New Year!?

The 'Horns basketball team January 2012 schedule is below:

1/4 at Iowa State 8pm CT
1/7 vs. Oklahoma State 6pm CT
1/11 vs. Texas A&M 8pm CT
1/14 at Missouri 12 pm CT
1/18 at Kansas State 8pm CT
1/21 vs. Kansas 3pm CT
1/24 vs. Iowa State 8pm CT
1/28 at Baylor 12pm CT
1/30 vs. Missouri 8pm CT

Come cheer on the Longhorns basketball team! If you need Longhorns basketball tickets, you know where you can get 'em! www.LonghornsBasketballTickets.com!

Texas Longhorns vs. Temple Saturday December 17, 2011

The Texas Longhorns basketball team takes on Temple on Saturday December 17, 2011 at Frank Erwin Center at 1:30pm Central time. The Longhorns are currently 8-2 and Temple is currently 6-2.

You can buy Longhorns tickets at http://www.longhornsbasketballtickets.com/ and prices are starting at just $4 each! Whether you're a Longhorns fan or not, that is a great price for something to do on a Saturday night!

Let's go 'Horns!

Texas Longhorns basketball winning streak

The Texas Longhorns basketball team won on Tuesday December 13th, 2011, extending their winning streak to six games. Each of these wins has had different players leading the team in scoring, with some new players shining!

Jaylen Bond, a freshman forward, had his first career double-double with career highs of 18 points and 12 rebounds! What a game! Another newbie to show his stuff is freshman Sterling Gibbs, who had 14 points, 5-of-5 field goals and 3-for-3 three-point field goals.

Gibbs says because they were not there in the summer to practice, it took them a little bit to get into the swing of things, now they are more comfortable with the playbook and their conditioning is improved.

Look for more young players to shine! They are the future of this team, and I see great things happening for the Texas Longhorns basketball team!

2011-2012 Men's basketball Texas Longhorns roster

Here is the Texas Longhorns Men's basketball 2011-2012 Roster:

NO.	NAME	POS	HT	WT	CLASS-EXP	HOMETOWN (LAST SCHOOL)
2	Jaylen Bond	F	6-7	224	Fr.-HS	Philadelphia, Pa. (Plymouth-Whitemarsh)
14	J'Covan Brown	G	6-1	197	Jr.-2L	Port Arthur, Texas (Memorial)
53	Clint Chapman	F/C	6-10	245	Sr.-3L	Canby, Ore. (Canby)
22	Andrew Dick	G	6-2	180	Jr.-2L	Sherman, Texas (Sherman)
13	Sterling Gibbs	G	6-1	185	Fr.-HS	Scotch Plains, N.J. (Seton Hall Prep)
10	Jonathan Holmes	F	6-7	239	Fr.-HS	San Antonio, Texas (Antonian College Prep)
12	Myck Kabongo	G	6-1	169	Fr.-HS	Toronto, Ontario, Canada (St. Benedict's Prep [N.J.])
0	Julien Lewis	G	6-3	190	Fr.-HS	Galveston, Texas (La Marque)
1	Sheldon McClellan	G	6-4	200	Fr.-HS	Houston, Texas (Bellaire)
5	Dean Melchionni	G	6-4	193	Jr.-2L	Lancaster, Pa. (Germantown Academy)
20	Alexis Wangmene	F/C	6-7	241	Sr.-3L	Maroua, Cameroon (Blair Academy [N.J.])

Texas Longhorns basketball 2011 schedule

The Men's Texas Longhorns basketball team followed up their first two wins in the first two games with two loses in a row at away games at a neutral location in East Rutherford, NJ on November 19th and 21st versus Oregon State and North Carolina State.

The 'Horns went on to win their next four games, making the Texas Longhorns basketball 2011 current standings at six wins and 2 loses, all home games have been a win, their only true away game a win, the two loses being the loses in New Jersey.

The Longhorns are off to a great start to the season, with the next three games at home!

Here is a Texas Longhorns upcoming basketball schedule through the end of the year:

12/10/11	vs. Texas State	Austin, Texas	7:00 pm CT
12/13/11	vs. Nicholls State	Austin, Texas	7:00 pm CT
12/17/11	vs. Temple	Austin, Texas	1:30 pm CT
12/21/11	at North Carolina	Chapel Hill, N.C.	6:00 pm CT
12/31/11	vs. Rice	Austin, Texas	1:00 pm CT

Seven Texas Longhorns football players named AP All-Big 12 team

The Associated Press announced that seven members of the Texas Longhorns football team were named to the AP All-Big 12 team. This includes three Longhorns players on the first-team and four on the second-team. The 2011 AP All-Big 12 team was selected by a panel of 17 sports writers who regularly cover the league the Longhorns play in for newspapers throughout the league's five states.

The three Longhorns football players named to the first-team are Senior LB Emmanuel Acho, sophomore CB Carrington Byndom and junior DE Alex Okafor. The four players selected for the second-team are sophomore DE Jackson Jeffcoat, senior DT Kheeston Randall, senior OG David Snow and senior PK/P Justin Tucker.

Congrats to all the seven players who were selected for the Associated Press All-Big 12 first and second-teams!

Football position abbreviations decoded!

Are you a fan of the game of football, but have a hard time deciphering all of the different positions? Especially when reading a football story, it might be confusing to see all of the abbreviations in writing. What do all the football position abbreviations stand for, you might ask yourself? Here, I've decoded the football abbreviations for you!

Position ---- Abbreviation

Center ---- C

Cornerback ---- CB

Defensive Back ---- DB

Defensive End ---- DE

Defensive Tackle ---- DT

Free Safety ---- FS

Fullback ---- FB

Guard ---- G

Kicker ---- K

Kick Returner ---- KR

Inside Linebacker ---- ILB

Linebacker ---- LB

Middle Linebacker ---- MLB

Nose Tackle ---- NT

Punter ---- P

Punt Returner ---- PR

Quarterback ---- QB

Running Back ---- RB

Safety ---- S

Strong Safety ---- SS

Tackle ---- T

Tight End ---- TE

Wide Receiver ---- WR

 Hopefully this list of abbreviations will help you understand the wonderful game of football a little bit more!