{"id":786262,"date":"2026-05-10T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786262\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:49:20","slug":"uconn-adds-jacksonville-state-transfer-jaye-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786262\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn adds Jacksonville State transfer Jaye Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By ADAM ZAGORIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Hurley <\/strong>and his staff continue to build their roster for 2026-27 as they attempt to make yet another Final Four run.<\/p>\n<p>The Huskies on Saturday landed a commitment from Jacksonville State transfer point guard<strong> Jaye Nash<\/strong> for backcourt depth, sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 Memphis native averaged 5.1 points, 4.0 assists and 2.8 rebounds last season while shooting 31% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>UConn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zagsblog.com\/2026\/04\/29\/uconn-signs-four-incoming-transfers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced the signings<\/a> of <strong>Oskar Giltay, Najai Hines<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Nikolas Khamenia<\/strong> and <strong>Nils Machowski<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The quintet of newcomers join returners <strong>Solo Ball, Silas Demary Jr., Braylon Mullins, Jacob Ross <\/strong>and <strong>Jayden Ross <\/strong>along with incoming freshmen <strong>Junior County <\/strong>and <strong>Colben Landrew<\/strong>\u00a0on the 2026-27 UConn roster.<\/p>\n<p>In other UConn related news, 7-2 transfer center<strong> Rrezon Elezaj <\/strong>has signed with Appalachian State, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2053214965541060724\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elezaj redshirted as a freshman at UConn last season. Before that, he played with Turkey\u2019s 2025 FIBA U18 Eurobasket team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamZagoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitte<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>r<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Follow ZAGSBLOGHoops on<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u00a0Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Like ZAGS on Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ADAM ZAGORIA Dan Hurley and his staff continue to build their roster for 2026-27 as they attempt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-786262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116549659379313423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}