{"id":245286,"date":"2026-04-11T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245286\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:13:07","slug":"mens-basketball-adds-sharpshooting-transfer-from-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245286\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Adds Sharpshooting Transfer From Texas A&#038;M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; Xavier University head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/goxavier.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/richard-pitino\/4878\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4878\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Pitino<\/a> announced the signing of Rub\u00e9n Dominguez to an athletics aid agreement. Dominguez, a 6-6 and 213-pound guard from Puerto Real, Spain, played as a sophomore this past season at Texas A&amp;M.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We are excited to welcome Rub\u00e9n to the Xavier family,&#8221; said Pitino. &#8220;He is one of the best three-point shooters in the country and was an integral part of an NCAA tournament team last year.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDominguez played in all 34 games this past season at Texas A&amp;M, starting 27 times. He averaged 10.2 points and 2.3 rebounds in 23.3 minutes per game, while connecting on a team-high 86 3-pointers. He shot 40.0 percent (86-215) from 3-point range, which was tied for fifth in the SEC, and he made 2.53 3-pointers per game, which ranked eighth in the SEC. In addition, he shot 87.1 percent (54-62) from the free-throw line, which would have been fourth in the SEC if he had reached the minimum number of attempts per game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTexas A&amp;M finished 22-12 overall this past season and 11-7 in the SEC. The Aggies made it to the second round of the 2026 NCAA Tournament.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI &#8212; Xavier University head coach Richard Pitino announced the signing of Rub\u00e9n Dominguez to an athletics aid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-245286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245286","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=245286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}