{"id":265212,"date":"2026-09-30T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/texas-basketball-gets-bad-injury-news-ahead-of-2026-27-season\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:39:30","slug":"texas-basketball-gets-bad-injury-news-ahead-of-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/texas-basketball-gets-bad-injury-news-ahead-of-2026-27-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas basketball gets bad injury news ahead of 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/colleges\/texas_longhorns\/61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Longhorns<\/a> are already dealing with some bad news on the hardwood.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re heading into year two of the Sean Miller era and coming off a Sweet 16 appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Miller brought in several strong players via the transfer portal, and he also cleaned up on the recruiting trail. He brought in the <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/season\/2026-basketball\/overallteamrankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 1-ranked<\/a> 2026 recruiting class in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As such, Texas enters this 2026-27 college basketball season with some high aspirations. The Longhorns can still absolutely be a contender, but the start of the season has just gotten a little bit tougher.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, it was reported that transfer guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_basketball\/players\/mikey_lewis\/1004300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikey Lewis<\/a> is going to miss an extended period of time with a foot fracture.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_basketball\/articles\/texas_basketball_gets_bad_injury_news_ahead_of_2026_27_season\/s1_13132_44368547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Longhorns are already dealing with some bad news on the hardwood. They&#8217;re heading into year two of the Sean Miller era and coming off a Sweet 16 appearance. Miller brought in several strong players via the transfer portal, and he also cleaned up on the recruiting trail. He brought in the No. 1-ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}