{"id":241424,"date":"2026-04-22T06:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241424\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:07:17","slug":"florida-state-guard-lajae-jones-enters-ncaa-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241424\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State guard Lajae Jones enters NCAA transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida State<\/a> guard Lajae Jones<\/a> has entered the NCAA transfer portal<\/a>, according to a report from On3\u2019s Jamie Shaw. Jones was a full-time starter for the Seminoles after transferring in ahead of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

Jones logged 31 starts in 33 appearances for Luke Loucks<\/a>\u2018 squad. He averaged 12.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

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Of note, Lajae Jones has work to do to gain eligibility. He will require a waiver to play another season of college basketball, but played just three seasons at the Division I level, with one year in junior college.<\/p>\n

Should he gain eligibility, he can be a real difference-maker for whichever team gets him out of the transfer portal. In each of his years at the Division I level Jones showed marked improvement.<\/p>\n

He began his career at Tarleston State in 2022-23. He played in just 10 games and did not start any of them, seeing only 6.1 minutes per game. He averaged 3.6 points and 1.4 rebounds per contest.<\/p>\n

From there, Lajae Jones would transfer to St. Bonaventure<\/a>. He played during the 2024-25 season, starting 33 of 34 games and becoming a real contributor.<\/p>\n

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For the Bonnies, Jones averaged 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. He also began to chip in across the stat sheet, recording 1.5 steals per game.<\/p>\n

In addition to his scoring and rebounding for Florida State, which were noted above, Lajae Jones also had a big impact doing the little things. He averaged 1.2 steals, 1.1 assists and 1.0 blocks per game, showing real versatility.<\/p>\n

Florida State loses another to the portal<\/p>\n

Florida State forward Thomas Bassong<\/a> has entered the NCAA transfer portal<\/a>, On3\u2019s Jamie Shaw III has learned. He was the first high school commitment for Seminoles coach Luke Loucks.<\/p>\n

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Bassong appeared in 33 games as a freshman this past season, including 17 starts. He averaged 5.9 points and 3.5 rebounds across 19.4 minutes per game during that time.<\/p>\n

Bassong turned in one of his best games of the year in late February against Georgia Tech<\/a>. He put up 14 points and pulled down 12 rebounds as Florida State took down the Yellow Jackets, 80-71, in ACC play.<\/p>\n

On3\u2019s Nick Schultz also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State guard Lajae Jones has entered the NCAA transfer portal, according to a report from On3\u2019s Jamie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1320,34520,74903,106741,46266],"class_list":{"0":"post-241424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-florida-state","12":"tag-jones","13":"tag-lajae-jones","14":"tag-rebounds-per-game","15":"tag-transfer-portal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}