{"id":346400,"date":"2026-09-14T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346400\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:36:08","slug":"mens-basketball-to-play-exhibition-game-against-st-johns-in-madison-square-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346400\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball to play exhibition game against St. John\u2019s in Madison Square Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, N.Y. \u2014 The University of Texas and St. John&#8217;s University have finalized an agreement to play an exhibition game leading into the upcoming 2026-27 season, the two schools announced Monday. The Longhorns will face the Red Storm on Sunday, Oct. 25 in Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Tip time, ticket information and any possible television network coverage will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The two schools have split their previous two meetings on the hardcourt. St. John&#8217;s recorded an 84-76 victory in a NCAA Tournament Round of 32 contest on March 17, 1991, in Dayton, Ohio. The Longhorns responded with a 77-76 win in the third-place game of the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic on Nov. 17, 2006, in Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, N.Y. \u2014 The University of Texas and St. John&#8217;s University have finalized an agreement to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-346400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}