Texas coach slammed March Madness fans for heckling college kids with chants about being overrated

• Fans chanted "overrated" at Texas star Charli Collier during the first round of the NCAA tournament.
• After his team's win, Longhorns head coach Vic Schafer lambasted the hecklers as "classless."
• The potential No. 1 pick in the 2021 WNBA Draft got the last laugh with 23 points and 15 rebounds.

Don't mess with Texas - or its basketball stars.

Fans heckled Texas superstar Charli Collier with "overrated" chants during the No. 6 Longhorns' romp of the Bradley Braves in the first round of the NCAA women's tournament. And even though the potential No. 1 overall pick in April's WNBA draft had the last laugh with 23 points and 15 rebounds in her team's victory, her coach was livid over the crowd's disrespect towards his star.

After his team's 81-62 win Monday night, Texas head coach Vic Schaefer lambasted fans for jeering at Collier. Not only were the chants "classless," he said, but they were also "a crock of you know what" given the 6-foot-5 junior's proven talent.

"That's about as classless as any adult can be," Schaefer said. "That's gonna do that to a kid. These aren't pros. You ain't paying $100 to come into these games ... these kids are young kids, man. They're not asking for that. They're good - that's your answer to somebody being good?"

"She ain't just good, she's great!" he added, referring to Collier. "Ain't nobody else in the country have the double-doubles that that kid's had in Power-5. There's not anybody even close."

He's almost right. Collier and Oklahoma State senior Natasha Mack both have 18 double-doubles on the season - more than any other players in the Power-5 conferences. But in their latest head-to-head matchup, Collier erupted for 28 points and 19 rebounds to help her Longhorns edge out the Cowgirls 64-53.

With 20.2 points per game on 51.9% shooting from the field and 11.8 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per contest to boot, Collier is an obvious All-America candidate. She's already earned AP All-America honors in addition to being named one of 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Women's Player of the Year award. However, she was not named one of the four finalists for college basketball's highest individual honor.

"So to stand up there and do that - that's bush," Schaefer said. "It really is. And, again, it reveals the character of those individuals and, really, the people they're representing, to be honest. I hate that."

Check out Schaefer's full comments below:

-Jeff Barker (@JeffBarker_) March 23, 2021