Texas guard Chendall Weaver doesn’t have a bigger fan than his older sister, Chennedy Carter. And not even Carter's status as one of the best women’s basketball players in Texas A&M history can take away from her support for her little brother — even if he plays for the rival Longhorns.

“Probably the only day they could get me to wear burnt orange,” Carter posted Saturday on X after her brother started his first game of the season in Texas’ 77-66 win over TCU.

Decked out in Texas colors, Carter watched Saturday’s game in Fort Worth, which is only a few miles from her and Weaver’s hometown of Mansfield. Weaver said Carter watches his games almost like a coach. She’ll critique everything from his shot selection to his defensive decisions while guarding the pick-and-roll.

And Weaver welcomes every word.

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“She's kind of like a mentor to me,” said Weaver, who had seven points and four rebounds in a season-high 33 minutes while making life miserable defensively for the TCU guards. “After the game, she told me some advice about trying to get down on my left hand and getting into the gym and work on my ball-handling a little bit. She’s just always there for me (with) constructive criticism. And I've always looked up to her.”

Weaver, a 6-foot-2 sophomore guard in his first season at Texas, hasn’t flashed the offensive skill set that made Carter the fourth overall pick of the 2020 WNBA draft. But then again, few players in men’s or women’s basketball do. Carter averaged 22.5 points in three seasons with the Aggies and dropped 51 points for her team in the Chinese league in November.

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Carter’s success at A&M also served as a recruiting touchstone for Texas coach Rodney Terry and his staff when courting Weaver in the portal after he earned the Western Athletic Conference’s freshman of the year award at UT-Arlington last year.

“Throughout the recruiting process, we visited with Chendall’s mom about (Carter’s) opportunities, where she was at the time, and how she got a chance to develop at A&M,” Terry said. “We tried to present the same type of opportunity for Chendall here at Texas.”

Carter may be a scorer who’s trying to find her way back to the WNBA after a year overseas; Weaver earns his minutes with hustle and defense. Embracing his own basketball identity remains a lasting lesson that Weaver says he gets from his sister.

“Be you,” he said, when asked about his sister’s hoops input. “Go out there and do what you do. That, honestly, is the best advice.”

And has Weaver ever gotten the better of his sister, even though she’s proved to be the best scorer in the family?

“I would never say the better-than-me part,” Weaver said with a grin. “I mean, I'm a competitor.”

Tuesday's game

No. 14 Iowa State (16-5, 5-3) at Texas (15-7, 4-5), 7 p.m., LHN, 1300

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas basketball's Chendall Weaver biggest fan: sister Chennedy Carter