I mean, as the winners of something called the 'National Invitational Tournament', the Texas Longhorns aren't not National Champions. I don't know that the university to which Kevin Durant once devoted his amateur status should be claiming accolades that require a double negative as a qualifier, but hey - it's not up to us to set expectations for a once proud program that now considers technical titles to be the peak of their performance. Personally, I'd be a bit embarrassed to so publicly celebrate the highly undecorated honor of winning first runner-up to a 68 team tournament, but so long as it's also an admission that a Big 12 team has slowly sandbagged their way into considering a country-wide consolation bracket to be equitable competition then I'm cool with it. Texas might be "National Champions" in a way that makes last year's UCF football team feel like the gridiron Goliath of the universe by comparison, but they are still "National Champions" and there's no amount of sarcasm and shame you can send their way that will change their min...
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