{"id":197129,"date":"2026-03-09T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197129\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:12:07","slug":"texas-state-basketball-coach-terrence-johnson-returns-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197129\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State basketball coach Terrence Johnson returns for 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/basketball\/article\/texas-state-mens-basketball-southern-miss-sun-belt-21950461.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas State men&#8217;s basketball<\/a> head coach Terrence Johnson will return for the 2026-27 season, athletic director Don Coryell confirmed to the American-Statesman. The Bobcats went 19-13 in the 2025-26 season, winning eight of their final 10 games and tying for second place in the Sun Belt.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has coached the Bobcats for six seasons, taking over for former head coach Danny Kaspar before the 2020-21 season and guiding them to back-to-back regular-season Sun Belt titles.<\/p>\n<p>Texas State is preparing for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/sports\/college\/2025\/06\/30\/texas-state-approves-5-million-buyout-to-leave-sun-belt-join-pac-12\/84416493007\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pac-12 debut. <\/a>The conference will host powerhouse men&#8217;s basketball programs such as Gonzaga, San Diego State, Utah State and Colorado State, and Johnson has been frank about the challenges the Bobcats will face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of the largest leaps in modern-day realignment,&#8221; Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Johnson said after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/basketball\/article\/texas-state-vs-app-state-sun-belt-bobcats-21862297.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas State&#8217;s win over App State<\/a> that he believes university president Kelly Damphousse and athletic director Don Coryell are &#8220;willing to figure out what they can do&#8221; to help the program compete financially.<\/p>\n<p>Under Johnson&#8217;s guidance, Texas State landed commitments from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/basketball\/article\/dj-hall-texas-state-sun-belt-21950435.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Hall<\/a> and Robert Fields in 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/basketball\/article\/texas-state-mens-basketball-bobcats-pac-12-21110115.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the two highest-rated recruits in program history,<\/a> according to 247Sports. Johnson found Hall early in his prep career at Plano East High School, handing the then-sophomore his first college offer. Hall broke the all-time scoring record for a Texas State freshman, averaging 15.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists. He was selected as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/basketball\/article\/dj-hall-texas-state-sun-belt-freshman-21951238.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Belt Freshman of the Year<\/a> and named to the All-Sun Belt Second Team for his achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas State men&#8217;s basketball head coach Terrence Johnson will return for the 2026-27 season, athletic director Don Coryell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,19752,1771,9330,65998,27,29,28,9327,51458,1927],"class_list":["post-197129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-men-s-college-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-division-i","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state-bobcats","tag-texas-state-bobcats-basketball","tag-texas-state-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197129","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=197129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}