 Their roots can be traced back to the Businessman Athletic Association (BAA), a minor league that competed with the more established MICAA during the 1950s and early 1960s.Not much is remembered on the team company's BAA team known as U-Tex Spinners.By the 1970s, the team was competing in the MICAA as the U/Tex Weavers and they began contending at the top of the basketball circle.