Editors’ note: This story was updated on July 27.
By Jerry Briggs
Special for The JB Replay
Coming off a disappointing five-win season, third-year UTSA basketball head coach Austin Claunch has assembled a 15-man roster for 2026-27 that includes 14 newcomers, with nine players incoming from NCAA Division I programs.
The Roadrunners have been announcing new additions to the team since last November when guard Naz Price of Katy Seven Lakes High School signed in the early period.
Spring signings opened in April with transfer point guards Josiah LeGree from Morehead State and KJ Tenner from Murray State. The list as a whole was made public on the athletics department website last week.
Sophomore guard Dorian Hayes is the only returner from last year’s team that went 5-25 overall and 1-17 in the American Conference.
Among the Roadrunners’ newcomers with Division I backgrounds, two of them — guards Isaiah Coleman and Isaiah Watts — bring extensive experience at the highest level of Division I.
Coleman played at Oklahoma State in the Big 12 last season following two years at Seton Hall.
The 6-6 guard has played 96 games in his career, highlighted in 2024-25 at Seton Hall of the Big East when he led the Pirates in scoring at 15.6 points per game.
Watts, meanwhile, competed in 2025-26 at Maryland in the Big Ten. Previously, he spent two years at Washington State. Watts has played in 86 games in three seasons.
Tenner, a high-scoring guard in high school at Memphis, averaged 13 minutes in 30 games as a freshman at West Virginia of the Big 12 in ’24-25.
He moved on to play 33 games in mostly an off-the-bench role at Murray State last season.
Roster
Mike Broxton Jr. 6-10 F freshman St. Petersburg, Fla. Gibbs HS
Isaiah Coleman 6-6 G senior (Oklahoma State)
Shey Eberwein 6-5 G redshirt junior (South Dakota)
Dorian Hayes 6-5 G sophomore (UTSA)
JJ Kelly 6-6 G sophomore (Ohio)
Josiah LeGree 6-0 PG junior (Morehead State)
Chinedume Okpukpara 6-10 F/C redshirt senior Highland Community College, Ill.
x-Jayson Peterson 6-8 F freshman Brandywine, Md., St. Andrews Episcopal HS
Naz Price 6-3 G freshman St. Louis, Mo., Seven Lakes HS in Katy, Tx.
Ashton Smith 6-9 F grad student (South Dakota)
x-Kanyon Taylor 6-9 G/F freshman Quitaque, Tx. Valley HS
KJ Tenner 6-0 PG junior (Murray State) Ky.
Preston Turner 6-6 G redshirt senior (Eastern Illinois)
Isaiah Watts 6-3 G senior (Maryland)
Demari Williams 6-6 G grad student (Houston Christian)
x-Peterson and Taylor are walkons.
Coaches
Austin Claunch, third season as UTSA’s head coach, with assistants Nick Bowman, David President, Jordan Brooks, Adam Short and Marlon Stewart.
Notable
UTSA will have 13 athletes on scholarship, with freshmen Kanyon Taylor from Quitaque, Tx., and Jayson Peterson from Brandywine, Md., joining the team as walkons.
At least four players off last year’s UTSA team have landed roster spots elsewhere in Division I, including Austin Nunez at LSU, Brent Moss (Tulsa), Baboucarr Njie (Temple) and Kaidon Rayfield (Northern Colorado).
The American Conference postseason tournaments for men’s and women’s basketball will be held in Tampa, Fla., at the Yuengling Center on the South Florida campus. The women’s tournament is March 9-13, with the men set for March 10-14.