Per Jeff Goodman of CBS Sports, Texas Longhorns freshman guard Sterling Gibbs will request a transfer after playing limited minutes this year. He will have to sit out one year and will have three years of eligibility remaining.

Texas freshman Sterling Gibbs will transfer, source told CBSSports. Younger brother of ex-Pitt guard Ashton Gibbs.

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanCBS) April 10, 2025

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After taking an official visit to Austin this past weekend, 2012 combo guard DeMarcus Holland (Garland Naaman Forest) has committed to the Texas Longhorns, per his AAU Coach Lawrence Mann. Holland had previously been committed to the South Florida Bulls, but decommitted in late February, around the time he started receiving interest from Texas. He is expected to sign his Letter of Intent (LOI) on April 11, the first day of the Late Signing Period.

After the early entry departure of J'Covan Brown, Texas had a scholarship available, and Rick Barnes and staff were apparently concerned about backcourt depth. From last year's team, Texas returns sophomores Myck Kabongo, Julien Lewis, Sheldon McClellan, and Sterling Gibbs. However, the first three players will likely start at point guard, shooting guard, and small forward, respectively, leaving Gibbs as the only returning scholarship backup. Further, prior to Holland's commitment, the only guard in the 2012 class was point guard Javan Felix, expected to be Kabongo's understudy next fall.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are one of the top 3 teams in the NBA, with one of the top players at four different positions: PG (age 23), SG (age 22), SF (age 23) and PF (age 22).

There's only one problem, as I get into in an article over at RealGM:

With the development of Serge Ibaka and James Harden to go along with Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, the Oklahoma City Thunder have become one of the best teams in the NBA. The bad news? They're not going to be able to pay all of them.

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For fans of Texas Longhorns basketball, here are a few quick recruiting notes with the Late Signing Period coming up on April 11.

• The most noteworthy new of the moment concerns Naaman Forest combo guard DeMarcus Holland. Holland, who is high school teammates with future Longhorn Prince Ibeh, decommitted from South Florida in late February and is currently considering just Texas and USF. Per Hookem247's Blake Munroe ($), Holland has a committable offer from Texas, presumably the scholarship vacated when J'Covan Brown decided to take his talents to the professional ranks. Holland is taking his official visit to Texas this weekend, and an imminent commitment would be unsurprising.
  

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The US and A will roll out a monster Olympic basketball team this summer in London. I made the mistake of Googling our twenty finalists for the team and was immediately sidetracked into choosing my own twelve man roster.

This 2012 group will be potent enough to draw legitimate comparisons to the 1992 Dream Team led by Christian Laettner. (That's how it's taught at Duke and in many home-schooled environments).

Posterity has rendered the Dream Team invincible. For good reason. They were a perfectly built basketball machine. Even if Larry Bird was a shell of himself, Magic played limited minutes with his HIV setback, and international basketball two decades past was much weaker than it is today.

Still, there was nothing like seeing Charles Barkley at his peak, power-mounting Euro big men like a runaway rhino (Team MVP, shot 71% from the field over 8 games), Chris Mullin draining threes while yawning, Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan running a two man full court press like greyhounds coursing after rabbits.

Our challenge? Let's see if we can throw together a roster to beat immortals...and bring back gold from Ol Blighty.

Our roster finalists, as picked by USA basketball:

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Two blue bloods. Two of the best players in college basketball in Thomas Robinson and Anthony Davis. Two of the best coaches in Bill Self and John Calipari, who have conveniently played for these stakes before.

Your two cents after the jump.

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Per a Longhorn Network tweet, Texas Longhorns junior guard J'Covan Brown will forgo his senior season to enter the NBA Draft. Brown was expected to officially announce a decision tomorrow, but it appears he has bumped up that timeline to today.

Texas' leading scorer J'Covan Brown will skip his senior season to enter NBA Draft. Brown will discuss on Longhorn Extra later today.

— Longhorn Network (@LonghornNetwork) April 2, 2026

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A pair of good games tomorrow, interesting in and of themselves, but with additional spice due to the Calipari-Pitino hate-fest laid over UK and Louisville's traditional rivalry with Ohio St - Kansas battling strength against strength with interior presence and dominant defensive point guards.

The UK-Louisville dynamic is volatile enough without adding the fact that Pitino and Calipari are mortal enemies, Pitino's personal reputation has taken recent hits that make Lenny Dykstra recoil in disgust, and Calipari has managed to vacate and probate every school where he's ever had success. The drama also obscures the fact that both coaches have done a wonderful job with their teams.

Pitino (six Final 4 appearances, three with seeds 4 or less) has Louisville playing with junkyard toughness and uses their press to generate some offense and make runs which, while not pretty, have put them in the Big Easy. When Lousville mans up, they hold opponents to 35% shooting and they held UK to 5 of 23 shooting earlier this season. Like UCONN last year, Louisville is playing its best basketball at the right time and they may have the best tactical coach in the college game calling their shots.

Calipari has done an excellent job bonding together another group of one and done mercenaries by persuading them to defend - the hardest learning curve for any freshman - and forcing them to play a selfless brand of team-first basketball in direct contradiction to their Imma Get Mine AAU pedigrees. UK struggles when their point guard struggles and Marcus Teague's ability to handle pressure is paramount. However, UK separates itself by having multiple secondary ball handlers who can exploit a gap in the press and finish at the rim with authority. They also have the best player in college basketball in Anthony Davis.

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