Rodney Terry shares latest on Dylan Disu's future plans

Texas‘ season ended in an Elite 8 loss to Miami, but also ended with them being Big 12 Tournament Champions and naming Rodney Terry as their new head coach. Terry losses a senior class that was integral in the team’s success last season, but one senior Dylan Disu still has a big decision to make.

Disu was granted one more year of eligibility and now has to decide whether to use it or not, a decision that Terry pulled back the curtain on in an in interview with Jon Rothstein.

“Well he’s finishing up this spring, he’s gonna graduate this spring which is always a highlight of a young kid’s career,” Terry said. “So he’s gonna be able to get that done and he’s working through the rehab piece right now from the injury that he sustained in the NCAA Tournament. And I think as he navigates through that in terms of his rehab I think there’s decisions being made as a family in terms of what his next direction is for his future.”

Disu suffered a foot injury in the NCAA Tournament that kept him out of the Longhorns’ Elite 8 and the Sweet Sixteen games. But you could argue that he had the hottest hand on the team prior to that injury. Disu started in all 36 games he appeared in for Texas last season and was the team’s fifth leading scorer, but at the end of the season he found new life.

Disu led the Longhorns in scoring and rebounding in two of their three Big 12 Tournament games, helping lead the Longhorns to the title.

And then in the NCAA Tournament he didn’t stop, scoring 17 points in the first round versus Colgate and a season high 28 points versus Penn State in the following round before suffering his injury.

He also led the team in blocks averaging 1.3 per game and ranked second on the team in field goal percentage, shooting 61.3% from the field last season only behind freshman Dillon Mitchell, who he scored 153 more points than last season.

“I know he’s a kid that has enjoyed and always grew up wanting to be a Longhorn so this place holds a lot of fun memories and opportunities for him to continue to build on those moments and memories as well. And so I think that’s going to be a decision that’ll be made here in the near future in terms of what he decides to do, I know he’s had a great experience here being on the Forty Acres and I think we’ll find that out here sooner than later,” Terry said.

Disu went to Hendrickson high school in Pflugerville just 20 miles away from Austin. He attended Vanderbilt the first two seasons of his collegiate career before returning home to Texas and transferring to play for the Longhorns, but will the Texas native decide to extend his stay and play one more season for the Longhorns? Only time will tell.