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

No. 11 seed Texas upset No. 3 Gonzaga, 74-68, connected Saturday to move connected to nan Sweet 16 of nan NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and caput coach Sean Miller’s expletive-laden halftime reside mightiness person been nan logic why.

Miller, 57, challenged his squad to maximize their effort connected nan violative solid and not wilt conscionable because Gonzaga is simply a higher seed and a bully hoops team.

"Here it is. The squad who gets nan astir 2nd shots successful nan 2nd half will win. Again, I want to spell back. You want to return it aliases are you conscionable going to opportunity — we're going to say, ‘Like, man, they look to ever spell to nan Sweet 16. Same happened to us.’ No, no. If you didn't return it, if you're going to beryllium a squad take, we sewage to spell get nan 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 coach Sean Miller successful nan 2nd half against nan Gonzaga Bulldogs during a second-round crippled of nan 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 nan shot live by immoderate intends possible, and to triumph nan 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 fierce squad successful nan 2nd half. The squad who wants to spell to San Jose, nan squad who's going to bargain it and return it from nan different motherf-----, that's who's going to triumph because it's an moreover game."

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Texas caput coach Sean Miller reacts connected nan sideline during nan 2nd half successful nan first information of nan 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 nan shot 4 times from Gonzaga had an 11-2 advantage successful points disconnected turnovers. While nan Longhorns out-rebounded 34-29, they changeable nan shot amended than nan Bulldogs, draining 52% of their shots compared to 45% for Gonzaga.

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

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Texas caput coach Sean Miller reacts from nan sideline during nan first half successful nan first information of nan NCAA assemblage hoops tourney against BYU successful Portland, Oregon, connected March 19, 2026. (Craig Mitchelldyer/AP Photo)

The Longhorns will 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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