Texas' seniors took a long, winding recruiting road to Longhorns basketball | Bohls

It's interesting to look back at the recruiting tales of the four seniors on the Texas men's basketball team, who played their final home game at Moody Center in last Saturday's 94-80 win over Oklahoma and are embarking on their final NCAA postseasons starting with Wednesday night's Big 12 Tournament matchup against Kansas State.

Max Abmas: Kansas State didn't get his best shot

Abmas had narrowed his top two relocation spots to Texas and Kansas State. Texas head coach Rodney Terry explained before the regular-season finale that Abmas had “a bad travel date” to visit the Wildcats and that he told the elite scorer, “So we're like, man, you don't want to have the travel issues every time your mom and everybody needs to go to Manhattan. You come here from Dallas to Austin and it’s easy peasy.”

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Abmas, by the way, was a pre-med major. Could he still become a doctor? “Possibly,” he said, “but I want to keep the ball bouncing as long as I can.”

Dylan Disu: you CAN come home again

Disu returned home to his roots as the Hendrickson High star left Vanderbilt, and when he committed, Terry said, “We were all high-fiving each other.”

Interestingly enough, Disu was once a football player who played quarterback, receiver and safety: “I played everywhere," he said. "If you had told me when I was 9 years old when I went to a Mack Brown football camp that I’d be here now playing basketball, I wouldn’t have believed you.”

Disu's favorite moment at Texas? That would be last year’s Kansas game when “I got the Dickie V ‘Are you serious’ award after my put-back dunk.”

Brock Cunningham: the forward everyone loves to hate

Cunningham admitted that his mom didn’t even want him to go to Texas, where his dad, Ed, was a star offensive lineman. She wanted him to go to an Ivy League school, so he visited Penn and Columbia. “But they didn’t give me a chance to play at a level I wanted to,” Cunningham said.

Brock recently went down memory lane about all the hecklers he’s encountered in his six-year career.

“I always see the ‘Get a Job’ signs,” he said.

Ithiel Horton: happy to be here

Horton’s recruitment stood out to Terry because after the phone call to the UCF player, who had already played at Pitt and Delaware State, “IT” was so enthralled with the conversation that Terry afterward told assistant Frank Haith, “He was so excited, giddy about us calling once he went into portal. He just about committed to us. And he hasn’t even visited yet. But he told the same thing to Bill Self, that he was going to Kansas.”

All four of these Longhorns came here via the portal. My guess is Texas has to have a list of the top 20 targets it will pursue in this year’s window. Or it’d better.