{"id":245463,"date":"2026-04-11T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245463\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:35:08","slug":"colorado-pg-isaiah-johnson-commits-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245463\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado PG Isaiah Johnson commits to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOOM!<\/p>\n<p>Texas lands a big-time portal addition, earning the commitment of former Colorado PG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/isaiah-johnson-245141\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/texas-longhorns\/join\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Sign up for Inside Texas for 50% off! Get the latest on the Longhorns HERE]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johnson, a rising sophomore, led the Buffalo with 17 PPG, alongside 3 assists, 3 rebounds and one steal per game. He shot 49% from the field, 38% from three and 82% from the free throw line. He led the Buffalo in threes and free throws made.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was third among Big 12 freshmen in scoring, sitting only behind draft prospects AJ Dybantsa and Tounde Yessoufou.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles product was a top 300 prospect out of high school, a three-star, in the 2025 class, but quickly climbed the ladder as a premier scoring option in Boulder. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson visited Texas over the weekend, according to On3\u2019s Jamie Shaw. Texas fought with schools like Kansas, Arkansas and Texas A&amp;M for the point guard.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson ranks as the No. 11 overall player in the On3 Transfer Portal industry rankings, and the No. 2 PG overall.<\/p>\n<p>The roster at a glance<\/p>\n<p>Out of eligibility (6)<\/p>\n<p>G\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/tramon-mark-114411\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tramon Mark<\/a>: 14.0 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 1.8 apg<\/p>\n<p>G\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/jordan-pope-65899\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Pope<\/a>: 13.1 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 1.9 apg<\/p>\n<p>G\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/chendall-weaver-151493\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chendall Weaver<\/a>: 5.8 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.1 apg<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/lassina-traore-200136\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lassina Traore<\/a>: 3.4 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 0.6 apg<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/cole-bott-176011\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Bott<\/a>\u00a0(Walk-on): 0.5 ppg, 0.2 rpg, 0.2 apg<\/p>\n<p>G\u00a0Brandon Taylor\u00a0(Walk-on): 0.8 ppg, 0.5 rpg, 0.0 apg<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed coming back (1)<\/p>\n<p>Portal additions (1)<\/p>\n<p>Eligible to return (6)<\/p>\n<p>Entered portal (3)<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 class (4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOOM! Texas lands a big-time portal addition, earning the commitment of former Colorado PG Isaiah Johnson. [Sign up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[585,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-245463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-regwall","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245463","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=245463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}