'Ready to fight': Texas-Michigan basketball stare each other down before Elite Eight game
Adding fuel to the fire, Michigan stares down Texas as they leave the locker room for warmups before the Elite Eight.
Texas women’s basketball point guard Rori Harmon said Sunday that if Michigan wants to use the misplaced placard on the bracket as fuel, “it’s valid. ” Well, the Wolverines appeared to do just that Monday night. Before Elite Eight warmups, the Wolverines gathered in the tunnel and stared down the Longhorns as they left the locker room for shoot around.
Michigan stared down Texas ahead of their matchup 👀 Watch Michigan-Texas at 7 PM ET on ESPN and the ESPN App 🍿 pic. twitter. com/F9gM9RHlJs — espnW (@espnW) March 30, 2026 A video of the stare down was posted to X .
Texas Longhorns guard Bryanna Preston (1) calls her team together for a huddle during the game against Georgia at the Moody Center on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026 in Austin. (Aaron E.
Martinez/Austin American-Statesman) “Dang Michigan… look like they are ready to fight,” a commenter said. The back-and-forth between the two teams started after Texas won its Sweet 16 game Saturday against Kentucky. Multiple seniors participated in the moving the ‘Texas’ name tag further down the bracket and instead of placing it parallel to Michigan, they placed it as the “regional finals”—the team going to the Final Four.