{"id":257538,"date":"2026-04-20T03:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257538\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:38:17","slug":"texas-womens-basketball-starter-justice-carlton-transfers-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257538\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas women&#8217;s basketball starter Justice Carlton transfers to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlton announced Sunday that she will transfer to Houston. The sophomore spent the first two years of her career at Texas, but\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=2ahUKEwjQ_ZOT-fqTAxUckmoFHZ8TKEMQFnoECB4QAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statesman.com%2Fsports%2Fcollege%2Flonghorns%2Fwomens-basketball%2Farticle%2Fjustice-carlton-texas-transfer-portal-22191635.php&amp;usg=AOvVaw106BCtOApfqvjepjE1ixNs&amp;opi=89978449\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entered the transfer portal<\/a> shortly after this past season ended.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot-1 forward who was a top-20 prospect in the 2024 recruiting cycle, Carlton started 28 times for Texas this season and averaged 8.5 points and 4.0 rebounds. After a 15-point performance against South Carolina in the SEC championship game on March 8,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/womens-basketball\/article\/justice-carlton-texas-sec-tournament-championship-21963427.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Carlton earned a spot on the SEC&#8217;s all-tournament team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carlton joins a Houston team that went 7-23 this season with a 1-17 mark in Big 12 play. A Katy native, Carlton is also joining a team that signed her younger sister, Madison, during the 2026 recruiting cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton announced Sunday that she will transfer to Houston. The sophomore spent the first two years of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,44557,58,57,34577,46466,537,5276,13548],"class_list":{"0":"post-257538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-cougars-basketball","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-justice-carlton","13":"tag-ncaa-transfer-portal","14":"tag-texas-longhorns","15":"tag-texas-longhorns-women-s-basketball","16":"tag-women-s-college-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257538","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=257538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}