{"id":367388,"date":"2026-07-09T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:34:08","slug":"texas-now-boasts-the-no-6-ranked-2026-recruiting-class-thanks-to-marcus-spears-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367388\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas now boasts the No. 6-ranked 2026 recruiting class thanks to Marcus Spears Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

With the addition of Marcus Spears Jr.<\/a> to the Texas Longhorns\u2019 2026 class, Sean Miller<\/a> can now claim the No. 6 2026 class in the Rivals Industry Ranking. <\/p>\n

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Spears Jr. is ranked as Rivals\u2019 No. 10 overall prospect, No. 2 power forward, and No. 1 player in Texas in the 2026 class. The Rivals Industry Ranking labels Spears Jr. as the No. 7 overall prospect, the No. 2 power forward, and the No. 1 player in Texas.<\/p>\n

He is labeled as a five-star by all three services. As a result, the Longhorns have brought in a tremendous class for the future of Miller\u2019s program.<\/p>\n

With his addition, Texas\u2019 six-man class features two top-30 prospects, three top-75 prospects, and five total top-300 prospects. Lithuanian signee Mantas Laurencikas<\/a> is not ranked by any of the three major services.<\/p>\n

All rankings via the Rivals Industry Ranking<\/p>\n

Marcus Spears<\/a>, PF, Plano (Texas) Dynamic Prep<\/p>\n

National: No. 7
Position (PF): No. 2
State: No. 1<\/p>\n

Austin Goosby<\/a>, SG, Melissa (Texas) Dynamic Prep<\/p>\n

National: No. 27
Position (SF): No. 8
State: No. 2<\/p>\n

Bo Ogden<\/a>, G, Austin (Texas) Westlake<\/p>\n

National: No. 53
Position (SF): No. 16
State: No. 6<\/p>\n

Joe Sterling<\/a>, G, Encino (Calif.) Harvard-Westlake<\/p>\n

National: No. 124
Position: (SG) No. 31
State: No. 12<\/p>\n

Coleman Elkins<\/a>, C, Blair Academy via Austin (Texas)<\/p>\n

National: No. 295
Position (C): No. 41
State: No. 8 <\/p>\n

National: N\/A
Position (PG): N\/A
State: N\/A<\/p>\n

Texas 2026-27 roster<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Matas Vokietaitis<\/a>: 15.6 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 0.6 apg<\/p>\n

G\u00a0Anthon McDermott<\/a>: 0.9 ppg, 0.6 rpg, 0.3 apg<\/p>\n

F\u00a0John Clark<\/a><\/p>\n

C\u00a0Lewis Obiorah<\/a><\/p>\n

F\u00a0David Punch<\/a>, TCU: 14.1 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 2.0 apg<\/p>\n

G\u00a0Isaiah Johnson<\/a>, Colorado: 16.9 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 3.0 apg<\/p>\n

G\u00a0Amari Evans<\/a>, Tennessee: 4.1 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 0.8 apg<\/p>\n

F\u00a0Elyjah Freeman<\/a>, Auburn: 9.2 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 1.2 apg<\/p>\n

G\u00a0Mikey Lewis<\/a>, St. Mary\u2019s (CA): 13.9 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 2.1 apg<\/p>\n

G\u00a0Mantas Laurencikas<\/a><\/p>\n

F\u00a0Marcus Spears Jr.<\/a>: No. 10 per Rivals<\/p>\n

W\u00a0Austin Goosby<\/a>: No. 34 per Rivals<\/p>\n

F\u00a0Bo Ogden<\/a>: No. 45 per Rivals<\/p>\n

G\u00a0Joe Sterling<\/a>: No. 123 per Rivals<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Coleman Elkins<\/a>: Unranked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the addition of Marcus Spears Jr. to the Texas Longhorns\u2019 2026 class, Sean Miller can now claim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,29695,134,133,102806,28893,19604,130110,130111,585,19753],"class_list":["post-367388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-goosby-26-melissa","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bo-ogden-26-st-michaels-catholic-academy","tag-coleman-elkins-26-blair-academy","tag-joe-sterling-26-harvard-westlake","tag-mantas-laurencikas-26-as-monaco","tag-marcus-spears-jr-27-dynamic-prep","tag-regwall","tag-sean-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367388","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=367388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}