{"id":307296,"date":"2026-05-24T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307296\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:01:09","slug":"bo-ogden-texas-basketball-signee-is-a-finalist-for-us-u18-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307296\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Ogden: Texas basketball signee is a finalist for US U18 squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas basketball signee\u00a0Bo Ogden<\/a> is one of 19 finalists for the 2026 USA Basketball Men\u2019s U18 National Team, USA Basketball announced Saturday. Finalists were selected by the USA Basketball Men\u2019s Junior National Team committee from among 32 athletes following three days of training camp at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.<\/p>\n

Training camp will continue for the next several days; the 12-member team will be announced before it departs for the 2026 FIBA U18 Men\u2019s AmeriCup scheduled for June 1-7 in Leon, Mexico.<\/p>\n

In addition to Ogden, the finalists for the 2026 USA Basketball Men\u2019s U18 National Team are Davion Adkins, Reese Alston, Tarris Bouie, Bruce Branch III, Quentin Coleman, Adan Diggs, Caleb Gaskins, Demarcus Henry, Josh Irving, Jasiah Jervis, Malachi Jordan, Taylen Kinney, Colben Landrew, J\u2019Lon Lyons, Baba Oladotun, Ethan Taylor, Davion Thompson and Darrius Wabbington.<\/p>\n

Ogden has previous experience with USA Basketball. He won a gold medal when he helped the USA 3×3 Men\u2019s U18 National Team win the FIBA U18 World Cup in Hungary in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Ogden, a 6-foot-5 guard from Westlake High School, was recently named Mr. Basketball for the state of Texas by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches and earned the\u00a0American-Statesman’s Central Texas player of the year award.<\/a> He helped lead Westlake<\/a> to a 32-7 record and a runner-up finish in the Class 6A Division II state tournament by averaging 22.0 points and 7.5 rebounds while hitting 40% from 3-point range and 84% from the free-throw line. He also was named District 26-6A’s MVP, Class 6A all-state and garnered mention on the UIL’s Class 6A boys academic all-state team.<\/p>\n

As a junior at St. Michael\u2019s in Austin, Ogden hit the game-winning shot at the buzzer to lift St. Michael\u2019s to a 50-48 victory over Dallas Parish Episcopal in the TAPPS Class 6A state championship game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ogden, a four-star recruit per 247Sports’ composite rankings and the son of Texas basketball general manager Chris Ogden, will join the Longhorns’\u00a0four-player 2026 class<\/a> along with five-star recruit\u00a0Austin Goosby<\/a> from Melissa, Joe Sterling from Los Angeles and Austin native\u00a0Coleman\u00a0Elkins<\/a>, who played at St. Andrew\u2019s before spending this season at Blair Academy in New Jersey. Texas’ 2026 class is ranked No. 12 in the nation.<\/p>\n

After reaching the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament under first-year coach Sean Miller, Texas has reloaded in the transfer portal. The Longhorns signed former St. Mary\u2019s guard\u00a0Mikey Lewis<\/a>, former Auburn wing\u00a0Elyjah Freeman<\/a>, former Tennessee guard\u00a0Amari Evans<\/a>, former TCU power forward\u00a0David Punch<\/a>\u00a0and former Colorado guard\u00a0Isaiah Johnson<\/a> in an impressive transfer class that ranks No. 3 in 247Sports\u2019 composite ratings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas basketball signee\u00a0Bo Ogden is one of 19 finalists for the 2026 USA Basketball Men\u2019s U18 National Team,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80830,88345,2692,65583,27,29,537,19751,28,62540,10687],"class_list":["post-307296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-basketball-recruiting","tag-bo-ogden","tag-college-basketball","tag-team-usa","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-news","tag-westlake-basketball","tag-westlake-chaparrals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307296","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=307296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}