{"id":383163,"date":"2026-07-23T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:31:16","slug":"houston-basketball-cougars-land-first-basketball-recruit-of-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383163\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston basketball: Cougars land first basketball recruit of 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/cougars\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">University of Houston<\/a> picked up its first basketball commitment for 2027 on Wednesday from Oneal Delancy, a top-50 shooting guard from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Delancy, a four-star guard from Monte Verde Academy, picked the Cougars over Florida, Florida State, Ohio State and Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>He is the No. 44 overall prospect in the class of 2027 and No. 9 shooting guard, according to Rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Houston picked up its first basketball commitment for 2027 on Wednesday from Oneal Delancy, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-383163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383163","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=383163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}