{"id":245461,"date":"2026-04-11T20:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245461\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:33:13","slug":"dedan-thomas-commits-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245461\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedan Thomas commits to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When the portal first opened this week, Thomas was among the first players the Wildcats reached out to following his lone season at LSU. They actually recruited Thomas last year when he was transferring from UNLV before eventually settling on Jaland Lowe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This past season, Thomas appeared in 16 games, averaging 15.3 points (45.9% shooting but 30.2% on 3s), 6.5 assists, and 2.7 rebounds per game. A left foot injury ended his season prematurely and led to surgery that\u2019s expected to sideline him into the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Thomas is a good player when healthy, taking another gamble on a point guard with injury concerns was a risk Mark Pope did not need to make.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, Kentucky will hope to land Washington point guard Zoom Diallo, who is wrapping up a visit to Lexington. The Cats are also recruiting BYU transfer Rob Wright, but may very well end up returning to the Cougars, so point guard options could be drying up fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The clock is ticking for Pope and Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the portal first opened this week, Thomas was among the first players the Wildcats reached out to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,13321,56882,13322,43894],"class_list":["post-245461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball-news","tag-kentucky-wildcats-mens-basketball-recruiting","tag-kentucky-wildcats-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245461","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=245461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}