Texas director of recruiting leaves for Arizona State

Per Jeff Goodman of Field of 68, Texas basketball director of recruiting Ty Larson has left the program to take a position on staff for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Larson will get an on-floor position as a special assistant to the head coach on head coach Bobby Hurley's staff at Arizona State.

Director of recruiting Ty Larson leaves Texas basketball to take an on-court role at Arizona State

Before leaving for the Arizona State job this preseason, Larson spent the past three seasons on staff for the Longhorns. He started at Texas during the 2021-22 season as a graduate assistant. Two years later in the summer of 2023, he was promoted to the director of recruiting job under head coach Rodney Terry for the Longhorns.

During Larson's one full season as Texas's director of recruiting, the Longhorns landed multiple blue-chip recruits in the 2024 class, including Dallas (TX) Link Academy five-star shooting guard Tre Johnson and Carrollton (TX) Newman Smith four-star power forward Nic Codie.

Texas has also recruited back-to-back top-20-ranked transfer portal classes in the nation in the 247Sports Composite during the 2023 and 2024 cycles under Larson. The Longhorns added immediate impact transfers from the portal that helped Terry's squad win at least one NCAA Tournament game for the second straight year in 2024, including senior guard Max Abmas and senior center Kadin Shedrick.

This offseason, the Longhorns also added high-profile transfers from the portal, such as former Arkansas shooting guard Tramon Mark and Oregon State guard Jordan Pope.

Larson's first Division 1 position in college hoops came with the Texas Tech Red Raiders before the 2019-20 season. He spent a couple of seasons at Texas Tech as a student manager before joining the Longhorns coaching staff during the 2021 offseason.

During Larson's one season as the director of recruiting, Texas posted a record of 21-13 (9-9 Big 12). Texas won an NCAA Tournament came this past postseason for the second year in a row, toppling the 10-seed Colorado State Rams in the Round of 64. The Longhorns came within two offensive possessions of pulling off the upset in the Round of 32 against former Texas head coach Rick Barnes and the two-seed Tennessee Volunteers.

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