{"id":230380,"date":"2026-04-01T15:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:42:13","slug":"how-texas-basketball-recruit-did-in-mcdonalds-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230380\/","title":{"rendered":"How Texas basketball recruit did in McDonald&#8217;s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/austin-goosby-commitment-texas-basketball-21191944.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin\u00a0Goosby<\/a>,\u00a0the centerpiece of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/mens-basketball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas basketball&#8217;s<\/a> 2026 recruiting class, did what he does best in limited minutes at Tuesday&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s All-American game: Help his team win.<\/p>\n<p>Goosby, a 6-foot-5 guard from the Dallas suburb of Melissa, scored six points on 3-of-4 shooting, made two steals, dished out an assist and grabbed two rebounds in just 13 minutes as his West team beat the East all-stars 86-71. The steals represent what Goosby will likely do from the opening tip next season for the Longhorns; he&#8217;s not a prodigious scorer even though he gets buckets, but his length and instincts could make him an elite perimeter defender for head coach Sean Miller next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goosby is ranked by 247Sports&#8217; composite ratings as the No. 28 overall prospect for his class in the nation. He headlines Texas&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-basketball-sean-miller-sec-21189671.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-player 2026 class<\/a>\u00a0along with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjy0rrGjPqQAxUtnSYFHf5EBSIQFnoECBsQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statesman.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2Fbasketball%2Farticle%2Fbo-ogden-texas-longhorns-mens-commit-westlake-21075318.php&amp;usg=AOvVaw0LEoLUsUIy_Wsf45xhq6aT&amp;opi=89978449\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Ogden<\/a>\u00a0from Austin\u2019s\u00a0Westlake High School, Joe Sterling from Los Angeles and Austin native\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-basketball-sean-miller-sec-21189671.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coleman\u00a0Elkins<\/a>, who played at St. Andrew\u2019s before spending this season at Blair Academy in New Jersey. Texas&#8217; 2026 class currently ranks No. 12 in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Goosby is the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/austin-goosby-texas-basketball-mcdonalds-game-22159538.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 25th player<\/a> to sign a letter of intent with the Texas men&#8217;s program and get selected to the McDonald&#8217;s All-American Game. That list includes the Longhorns\u2019 last McDonald\u2019s All-American: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/2024\/01\/23\/texas-basketball-recruit-tre-johnson-selected-to-mcdonalds-all-american-team-rodney-terry\/72327963007\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tre Johnson<\/a>, a guard \u00a0in the 2024 class\u00a0who currently plays for the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>Goosby averages 17.0 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists for Dynamic Prep in Irving. Last season he posted 24.1 points and 7.1 rebounds while leading Melissa to the state playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin\u00a0Goosby,\u00a0the centerpiece of\u00a0Texas basketball&#8217;s 2026 recruiting class, did what he does best in limited minutes at Tuesday&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2692,89089,537,13558],"class_list":{"0":"post-230380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-mcdonald-s-all-american","13":"tag-texas-longhorns","14":"tag-texas-longhorns-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230380","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=230380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}