The Texas State Bobcats men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents

Texas State University Texas State University is a public research university in San Marcos, Texas. Since its establishment in 1899, the university has grown to the second largest university in the Greater Austin metropolitan area and the fifth largest university ...

. The school's team currently competes in the Sun Belt Conference. They are currently led by Terrence Johnson, who took over in September 2020 following the resignation of

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. The Bobcats last appeared in the NCAA tournament in

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History

The Bobcats' first season of college basketball was in 1920. The Bobcats were one of the charter members of the

Lone Star Conference The Lone Star Conference (LSC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in the southwestern United States, with schools in T ...

, which started play in 1934. Starting in 1950, the team won nine conference titles, winning the 1960 NAIA title in the process along with playing in the NAIA Final Four four times before leaving in 1983 to join the Gulf Star Conference, playing from 1984 until 1987 until the conference disbanded. They soon joined the

Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it ...

from 1987 until 2012, when they left for the

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Texas. Due to mos ...

. A year later, they left the WAC and joined the Sun Belt Conference. Southwest Texas State became Texas State in 2003.

Head coaches

* Oscar W. Strahan (1920–1924, 1944–1946) * Henry Shands (1924–1935) *

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(1935–1939, 1942–1943) * George Vest (1939–1942) *

Milton Jowers Milton Warren Jowers (July 12, 1914 – December 16, 1972) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served two stints as the head football coach at Southwest Texas State University—now known as Texas ...

(1946–1961) * Vernon McDonald (1961–1977) * Dan Wall (1977–1981) * Bob Derryberry (1981–1984) * Celester Collier (1984–1986) * Harry Larrabee (1986–1991) *

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(1991–1994) * Mike Miller (1994–2000) *

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(2000–2006) * Doug Davalos (2006–2013) *

(2013–2020) * Terrence Johnson (2020–Present)

Postseason results

NCAA Division I Tournament results

^Minnesota win vacated for NCAA infractions

NIT results

The Bobcats have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) one time. Their record is 0-1.

CIT results

The Bobcats have appeared in the

CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament The CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was an American men's college basketball postseason tournament founded by Collegeinsider.com. The tournament was oriented toward schools that did not get selected for the NCAA Division I men's ...

(CIT) two times. Their combined record is 2–2.

NAIA Division I Tournament results

Bobcats in the NBA

* Torgeir Bryn, 1989-1990,

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* Jeff Foster, 1999-2012, Indiana Pacers

References

External links

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