{"id":664970,"date":"2026-05-12T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/664970\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:05:17","slug":"usc-mens-basketball-signs-jalen-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/664970\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Men&#8217;s Basketball Signs Jalen Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0USC Men&#8217;s Basketball added rising senior guard Jalen Cox to the roster for the 2026-27 season, Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/usctrojans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/eric-musselman\/7184\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7184\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Musselman<\/a> announced today, May 11.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We are excited to welcome Jalen to our Trojan Family,&#8221; Musselman said. &#8220;Jalen provides us with an incredible spark at the guard position. Jalen does an incredible job both as a scorer and as a distributor, leaving his mark on the offensive end. Jalen fits how we want to play on offense, being a high free-throw attempt player. Jalen will add to our aggressive defensive style with his ability to guard multiple positions and force turnovers with his ability to steal the basketball.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA 6-foot-3 guard from Los Angeles, Cox returns home after spending three years at Colgate, where he was a two-time All-Patriot League and Patriot League All-Defensive Team selection. The 6-foot-3 guard averaged a career-high 17.9 points, 5.2 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game, the latter of which led the Patriot League. He shot a career-best 52.1% from the field and 36.5% from three, an improvement over his 29.4% clip from the year prior. On3 rated him a four-star transfer portal prospect earlier this spring, which gives USC another highly-touted prospect to its No. 3-ranked recruiting class.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHe has single-game career highs of 38 points (vs. Loyola Maryland), 12 rebounds (vs. Bucknell), 11 assists (vs. Loyola Maryland), and five steals (vs. Loyola Maryland).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCox attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles before finishing his high school career at South Kent School in Kent, Connecticut. At South Kent, he was an All-NEPSAC Honorable Mention selection and led the team to the 2023 NEPSAC AAA Championship game. Before that, he was an All-Mission League First Team Selection at Loyola High School.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCox is one of four transfers on the roster for the 2026-27 season, joining Eric Reibe, Joshua Hughes and Aaron Hunkin-Claytor. He will also join returners\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usctrojans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/rodney-rice\/17655\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17655\" target=\"_blank\">Rodney Rice<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usctrojans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jacob-cofie\/17659\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17659\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Cofie<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usctrojans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/alijah-arenas\/17664\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17664\" target=\"_blank\">Alijah Arenas<\/a>, and freshmen Adonis Ratliff, Darius Ratliff and Christian Collins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0USC Men&#8217;s Basketball added rising senior guard Jalen Cox to the roster for the 2026-27 season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-664970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664970","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=664970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}