{"id":570453,"date":"2026-03-28T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:06:08","slug":"jaland-lowe-leaving-kentucky-basketball-to-enter-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570453\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaland Lowe leaving Kentucky Basketball to enter transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/mbball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kentucky Basketball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kentucky Basketball&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kentucky Basketball<\/a> point guard Jaland Lowe is entering the transfer portal and will not return to the school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/kentucky-wildcats\/news\/kentucky-pg-jaland-lowe-plans-to-enter-transfer-portal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:his father told Jack Pilgrim of KSR;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;his father told Jack Pilgrim of KSR&quot;}\" class=\"link \">his father told Jack Pilgrim of KSR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This seemingly ends what was a disastrous one-year stay in Lexington for both Lowe and Kentucky, largely due to the dislocated shoulder he suffered in the Blue-White Game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While he did eventually return on several occasions, Lowe ultimately was unable to keep going and had season-ending surgery in January. The soon-to-be senior will apply for a medical redshirt in hopes of getting two more seasons of college basketball instead of just one if no redshirt is granted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lowe transferred in from Pittsburgh last offseason after a Third-Team All-ACC campaign with the Panthers after averaging 16.8 points, 5.5 assists, and 4.2 rebounds per contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At Kentucky, his numbers dropped to just 8.0 points, 2.4 assists, and 2.1 boards per game. He appeared in just nine contests and made two starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As for the Wildcats, they largely built their team around Lowe, and without him, the team struggled to meet expectations and finished 22-14.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Despite the injury, Lowe remained with the team all season and did what he could to work with his teammates, so he deserves a lot of credit for giving everything he had to this team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Best of luck to Lowe as he looks to get his basketball career back on track with another program!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentucky Basketball point guard Jaland Lowe is entering the transfer portal and will not return to the school,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,19965,280231,280230,4715,280232,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-570453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-dislocated-shoulder","12":"tag-jack-pilgrim","13":"tag-jaland-lowe","14":"tag-kentucky","15":"tag-medical-redshirt","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}