Texas coach gives fiery, expletive-laden halftime speech before Longhorns' upset over Gonzaga

No. 11 effect Texas upset No. 3 Gonzaga, 74-68, connected Saturday to determination connected to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and caput manager Sean Miller’s expletive-laden halftime code mightiness person been the crushed why.

Miller, 57, challenged his squad to maximize their effort connected the violative solid and not wilt conscionable due to the fact that Gonzaga is simply a higher effect and a bully hoops team.

"Here it is. The squad who gets the astir 2nd shots successful the 2nd fractional volition win. Again, I privation to spell back. You privation to instrumentality it oregon are you conscionable going to accidental — we're going to say, ‘Like, man, they look to ever spell to the Sweet 16. Same happened to us.’ No, no. If you didn't instrumentality it, if you're going to beryllium a squad take, we got to spell get the shot much erstwhile we miss. It can't beryllium 1 of those like, ‘F--- it, we could ne'er get an violative rebound against Gonzaga.’ Yes, we can," Miller told his team.

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Texas Longhorns caput manager Sean Miller successful the 2nd fractional against the Gonzaga Bulldogs during a second-round crippled of the 2026 NCAA men’s tourney astatine Moda Center successful Portland, Oregon, connected March 21, 2026. (Troy Wayrynen/Imagn Images)

Miller impressed upon his squad that if they couldn’t drawback it, they needed to support the shot live by immoderate means possible, and to triumph the game, they had to bargain it from Gonzaga.

"You can't get it, punch it, extremity it, spell backmost up, tip, dunk, up," Miller said. "The astir assertive squad successful the 2nd half. The squad who wants to spell to San Jose, the squad who's going to bargain it and instrumentality it from the different motherf-----, that's who's going to triumph due to the fact that it's an adjacent game."

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Texas caput manager Sean Miller reacts connected the sideline during the 2nd fractional successful the archetypal circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney against BYU successful Portland, Oregon, connected March 19, 2026. (Amanda Loman/AP Photo)

Texas took Miller’s proposal literally, arsenic they stole the shot 4 times from Gonzaga had an 11-2 vantage successful points disconnected turnovers. While the Longhorns out-rebounded 34-29, they changeable the shot amended than the Bulldogs, draining 52% of their shots compared to 45% for Gonzaga.

For Miller, Texas’ travel to the Sweet 16 is his ninth travel successful 21 seasons arsenic a caput manager and improved his wide tourney grounds to 25-13 successful the NCAA Tournament. For Texas, this is their archetypal Sweet 16 since 2023.

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Texas caput manager Sean Miller reacts from the sideline during the archetypal fractional successful the archetypal circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney against BYU successful Portland, Oregon, connected March 19, 2026. (Craig Mitchelldyer/AP Photo)

The Longhorns volition look to support their Cinderella tally going erstwhile they play No. 2 Purdue connected Thursday astatine 7:10 p.m. ET.

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