Texas keeps Holland at home, gets No. 10 recruit

Texas has landed its archetypal enlistee for the people of 2023, and it is simply a large one. Ron Holland, the No. 1 imaginable successful the authorities of Texas and the No. 10 wide subordinate successful the ESPN 100, is staying home.

Holland, who besides visited Arkansas and UCLA successful summation to Texas, said, "I tin execute each my goals astatine home."

Holland has a wont of winning. The 6-foot-8, 195-pound powerfulness guardant has won aggregate authorities championships astatine Duncanville High (Duncanville, Texas) and precocious won his 2nd medal connected the U17 U.S. men's hoops squad that won golden successful Spain.

In the end, it came down to his emotion for the authorities of Texas, his narration with manager Chris Beard and the resources of the caller state-of-the-art Moody Center.

"I person grown up successful Texas and I privation to beryllium loyal to my location state," Holland said. "I person done a batch of winning successful the authorities of Texas and program to proceed those winning ways astatine The University of Texas with Coach Beard and his staff."

During the recruiting process, Holland made a beardown transportation with Beard, not lone arsenic a manager but arsenic a person.

"What makes Coach Beard peculiar is however locked successful helium is with his players," Holland said. "He wants his players to not lone beryllium large arsenic hoops players but arsenic men. He is large connected caring for others which shows a batch astir his character, meaning helium is consenting to assistance others nary substance what"

"On my sojourn everything felt right," Holland said. "I watched the squad signifier and their idiosyncratic workouts. They were aggravated and competitive. That is the mode I privation to beryllium coached. I judge Coach Beard volition beryllium with maine not lone during the bully times but during immoderate adversity. The caller Moody Center gives you everything you request to succeed."

This year's Longhorns squad features six seniors and Dillon Mitchell. A freshman, Mitchell finished No. 4 successful the ESPN 100 and should beryllium a one-and-done subordinate with his lottery-type talent. All of which means Holland volition person an contiguous accidental to interaction the programme successful 2023.

Holland is simply a existent matchup headache connected some ends due to the fact that helium is the champion power defender successful his people and tin defender each position. Offensively, helium possesses the size and processing accomplishment to interaction some wrong and out.

Texas whitethorn not beryllium done bringing successful top-tier talent. The Longhorns are inactive pursuing No. 24 Andrej Stojakovic, who volition denote Monday, and No. 25 A.J. Johnson, who is looking astatine Texas and LSU Tigers earlier deciding his destination successful November.