{"id":247128,"date":"2026-04-13T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247128\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:27:08","slug":"texas-lands-former-tcu-standout-david-punch-out-of-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247128\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas lands former TCU standout David Punch out of transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Punch is leaving\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TCU<\/a>, but isn&#8217;t going very far.<\/p>\n<p>Punch led TCU in points (14.1 per game), rebounds (6.8 per game) and blocks (1.9 per game). He put together a strong sophomore season for the Horned Frogs, playing in and starting 34 games en route to earning an All-Big 12 honorable mention selection.<\/p>\n<p>Punch isn&#8217;t the only significant pickup for Texas this weekend, as Colorado guard Isaiah Johnson also committed to Texas. He averaged 16.9 points and broke Colorado&#8217;s freshman scoring record in his debut season, earning All-Big 12 Honorable Mention honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Punch is leaving\u00a0TCU, but isn&#8217;t going very far. Punch led TCU in points (14.1 per game), rebounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-247128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247128","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=247128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}