The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Hall of Honor
- Induction:
- 2024
- Class:
- 2012
A two-time first-team all-conference selection and four-year starter at shooting guard (1994-97), Reggie Freeman is one of the most prolific scorers in Texas Men’s Basketball history. The first player in school history to participate in four consecutive NCAA Tournaments, he still ranks fourth on UT’s all-time scoring list with 1,958 points in his 123 career games played (15.9 ppg). As a freshman in 1993-94, Freeman saw action in 32 of UT’s 34 games and made 21 starts, helping the Longhorns to a 26-8 mark, the Southwest Conference regular-season title, the SWC Tournament championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament Round of 32. He upped his scoring average by over nine points a game (from 5.3 as a freshman to 14.7 as a sophomore) during his sophomore campaign in 1994-95 and earned the team’s Most Improved Player award. Freeman played in all 30 games with 12 starts and led UT to a 23-7 record, a share of the SWC regular-season title, the SWC Tournament championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament Round of 32. In his junior season in 1995-96, he earned first-team All-SWC accolades and was named the team’s Most Valuable Player after leading the league and ranking 16th nationally in scoring (22.4 ppg). Freeman also claimed Most Outstanding Player honors at the final Southwest Conference Tournament, recording 83 points in three games (27.7 ppg). He recorded the only triple-double in school history with 22 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 102-81 win at TCU on Feb. 11, 1996. The Longhorns finished the year with a 21-10 mark, a runner-up finish at the SWC Tournament and a trip to the NCAA Tournament Round of 32. He earned first-team All-Big 12 Conference honors and was again named the team’s Most Valuable Player after averaging a team-high 21.8 ppg while starting all 30 games during his senior season in 1996-97. Freeman led the Longhorns to an 18-12 mark, a tie for third in the school’s first year in the Big 12, and a trip to the NCAA Tournament Round of 16. He scored a career-high 43 points during a 98-86 home win against No. 16 Fresno State on Dec. 14, 1996, a mark that is tied for the highest single-game scoring total by a UT player in Frank Erwin Center history. Following his collegiate career, Freeman played professionally overseas for more than a decade. He returned to campus in 2009 and earned his bachelor’s degree in Youth & Community Studies from The University of Texas in August 2012. Freeman served as the head coach for the Austin Rain AAU program from 2010 to 2015 and later worked as an assistant coach at Eastern Florida State College (2015-16), Missouri State-West Plains (2016-17) and Hutchinson (Kansas) Community College (2017-18). He has worked in sales at Dell Technologies in Round Rock since 2018.
