{"id":133830,"date":"2026-01-22T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/133830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:19:08","slug":"will-texas-basketball-play-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/133830\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Texas basketball play Saturday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a winter storm<\/a> bearing down on the Austin area this weekend, Texas basketball <\/a>officials say Saturday\u2019s home game against Georgia remains on schedule. The Longhorns (11-8, 2-4 SEC), who lost Wednesday at Kentucky<\/a>, will host No. 21 Georgia in a noon game.<\/p>\n

Texas hasn\u2019t released an official statement on the possibility of a postponement, with an official saying the school is \u201cobviously monitoring\u201d the weather forecast. But the latest projections seem to favor that the game will tip with no issues; according to KVUE\u2019s hourly weather report Thursday, temperatures in Austin won\u2019t drop below freezing until early Saturday evening when a combination of sleet and freezing rain is expected to sweep across the area.<\/p>\n

Travel concerns for Georgia and the game officials could also factor into a possible postponement of the SEC game. The Bulldogs will likely fly out of Atlanta, which is not expected to receive any winter weather this weekend.<\/p>\n

Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, who regularly responds to questions and concerns from Texas fans on his X account, posted Wednesday that \u201cwe\u2019ll keep an eye on the weather\u201d in the buildup to Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point in time, the game is scheduled to be played,\u201d Del Conte wrote. \u201cIf something changes, we will keep you posted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a winter storm bearing down on the Austin area this weekend, Texas basketball officials say Saturday\u2019s home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,57200,31075,25852,19752,19499,5277,537,19751],"class_list":["post-133830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-weather-forecast","tag-chris-del-conte","tag-cold-weather","tag-men-s-college-basketball","tag-moody-center","tag-sec-basketball","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-men-s-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}