{"id":789050,"date":"2026-07-17T16:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/789050\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:09:15","slug":"texas-womens-basketball-lands-pledge-from-post-prospect-jayla-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/789050\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas women&#8217;s basketball lands pledge from post prospect Jayla Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jayla Forbes, a 6-foot-7 post player out of Florida, announced Thursday that she will be the first member of UT&#8217;s 2027 recruiting class. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Da26aFVFGA4\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an\u00a0Instagram post<\/a>, Forbes wrote that she was &#8220;beyond grateful to announce that I have committed to the University of Texas. &#8230; Thank you to the Texas coaching staff for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to continue my academic and athletic career at such an amazing program. I&#8217;m excited for this next chapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/high-school\/girls-basketball\/recruiting\/rankings\/scnext100girls\/_\/class\/2027\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN rates Forbes<\/a> as the No. 13 recruit in the Class of 2027 while Rivals also sees her as a top-20 talent. Among rising high school seniors, Forbes is regarded as the second-best post prospect.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayla Forbes, a 6-foot-7 post player out of Florida, announced Thursday that she will be the first member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,95538,2398,41681,19932],"class_list":["post-789050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-jayla-forbes","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-women-s-basketball","tag-vic-schaefer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116936190438953398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}