{"id":317117,"date":"2026-05-15T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:51:10","slug":"san-jose-state-spartans-add-69-forward-luke-howard-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317117\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jos\u00e9 State Spartans Add 6&#8217;9&#8243; Forward Luke Howard For 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bcsnn.com\/basketball\" class=\"pathway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778845870_65_arrow.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Jos\u00e9 State Spartans Add 6&#8217;9&#8243; Forward Luke Howard For 2026-27 Season\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSan Jos\u00e9 State Spartans Add 6&#8217;9&#8243; Forward Luke Howard For 2026-27 Season\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDetails\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tBCSNN Staff\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcsnn.com\/basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Basketball<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t15 May 2026\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SJSU_Fans.jpg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><a id=\"startOfPage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 State head coach Tim Miles announced that Luke Howard, a 6\u2011foot\u20119 forward from Simon Fraser University, will join the Spartans for the 2026\u201327 season.<\/p>\n<p>Howard, who is from Abbotsford, Canada, arrives as a senior after redshirting last season and brings experience from multiple programs across his college career. \u201cLuke is an experienced and athletic forward,\u201d Miles said. \u201cHe has a versatile skill set which really fits our style of play. We are excited to add Luke to our program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howard averaged 16.7 points and 6.1 rebounds while shooting 41.7% from three and 48.4% from the field in 24 games at Simon Fraser in 2024\u201325, earning GNAC All\u2011Conference Honorable Mention. Before that, he played at Northwest University in 2023\u201324, where he was named first\u2011team all\u2011conference and averaged 19.2 points and 7.8 rebounds. His earlier stops included Lipscomb and Biola, and he previously played high school basketball at Harding Academy in Memphis \u2014 where he scored 1,350 points in two seasons and was a Tennessee Mr. Basketball finalist \u2014 as well as Abbotsford Senior High School in British Columbia. His sister, Emily Howard, played collegiately at Liberty and Boise State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball San Jos\u00e9 State Spartans Add 6&#8217;9&#8243; Forward Luke Howard For 2026-27 Season San Jos\u00e9 State Spartans Add&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[132551,132553,132549,132552,88,90,89,52380,132550,999,64678],"class_list":["post-317117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-gnac","tag-harding-academy","tag-luke-howard","tag-northwest-university","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-state-basketball","tag-simon-fraser-transfer","tag-sjsu","tag-tim-miles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}