AUSTIN (KXAN) — For the first time since leaving Mississippi State in 2020 for the University of Texas, Longhorns women’s basketball coach Vic Schaefer and his daughter Blair are returning to Starkville.
Mississippi State will host Schaefer’s No. 1 Longhorns Thursday night at Humphrey Coliseum as Texas continues its championship chase closing in on a Southeastern Conference regular season title.
It’s not easy to walk away from a program where you appeared in the national championship game in back-to-back seasons, 2017 and 2018, and were a two-time National Coach of the Year, but that’s exactly what Vic Schaefer did in 2020 when he chose to come to Texas.
“Those eight years that we spent there are the eight best years of the Schaefer family’s lives,” Schaefer said.
Blair Schaefer, a current Longhorns assistant, played for her father at Mississippi State from 2014 to 2018.
“I have so much love for Mississippi State and everything that it gave to me during my career and my family. Just like the times that I had there as a student-athlete, to go on those championship runs with my teammates that I had,” Schaefer said.
“I’m excited to also see ‘The Hump’ because they have, I guess, some new renovations, with our national championship run photos up in the hallways,” Blair added.
This is Texas’ final road game of the regular season, the Longhorns want to extend the current 11-game win streak and get one step closer to the SEC title.
“We’re now down to, in my mind, a two-game season and we just got to do what we’ve done all year, which is be in the present,” Vic Schaefer said.
The Bulldogs are 6-8 against SEC opponents, while Texas is 13-1, only losing to losing at South Carolina on Jan. 12.
