{"id":269089,"date":"2026-04-28T01:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269089\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:47:17","slug":"mens-basketball-west-virginia-f-dj-thomas-commits-to-tcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269089\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball: West Virginia F DJ Thomas commits to TCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Head coach Jamie Dixon and the TCU Horned Frogs made a major addition to the frontcourt Monday, gaining a commitment from West Virginia freshman transfer forward DJ Thomas. The 6-foot-9 forward, who played his high school basketball in Allen, Texas, averaged 6.6 points and 2.1 rebounds per game during the 2025-26 season and played in 38 games. Thomas will arrive in Fort Worth with three years of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thomas shot 49.5% from the field during his lone season with the Mountaineers. A top bench player for West Virginia, Thomas averaged 10.9 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists as a senior at Allen High, earning UIL 6A All-Region honors while helping his team to the Class 6A Division I semifinals. As a junior, he averaged 10.3 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game, helping Allen to a 32-win season and top five 6A ranking in the state. A three-star recruit out of high school, Allen signed with West Virginia over North Texas, UTSA and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Jamie Dixon and the TCU Horned Frogs made a major addition to the frontcourt Monday, gaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,35108],"class_list":["post-269089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tcu-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269089","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=269089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}