basketball teams

Photo by mr3wan on flickrThe Texas Longhorns put their seven-game winning streak on the line tonight at Kansas State in a matchup of two of the Big 12's top men's basketball teams.

The game will be televised nationally by ESPN at 8 pm Central as part of their Big Monday coverage and marks the third straight week that Texas has been featured in a Big Monday contest.

UT workers roll 296 wooden panels out of a Frank Erwin Center storage room on dollies and into the arena before and after each basketball game.

Approximately four hours later, the panels decorated with UT colors and symbols have been bolted together to form the UT basketball court, played on by both UT men's and women's basketball teams.

The Texas men's and women's basketball teams both played at the Frank Erwin Center Jan. 26, and the difference between the two games went beyond gender and outcomes.

The Tower glowed burnt orange for a different reason Wednesday night. With the football team an afterthought and basketball teams barely into their regular seasons, UT chose to honor its most successful athletic program of 2007 after they claimed their first Big 12 title since 1997: the volleyball team.