{"id":253956,"date":"2026-05-01T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253956\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:01:07","slug":"mens-basketball-signs-eddie-placer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253956\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Signs Eddie Placer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0North Florida Men&#8217;s Basketball Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/bobby-kennen\/1540\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1540\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Kennen<\/a> announced Friday the signing of Eddie Placer, a 6-5 senior guard from Wagner College.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We are excited to welcome Eddie Placer and his family to North Florida,&#8221; Kennen said. &#8220;He brings toughness, versatility and a competitive spirit that fits exactly who we are and how we want to play. He has a high IQ and a skill set to play multiple positions. He is a proven player, and his experience will greatly benefit our program.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPlacer played in 30 games with 14 starts and averaged 8.5 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 25.8 minutes per game at Wagner in 2025-26. He totaled 10 or more points in 12 games and 20 or more in two games last season. He notched a Division-I career-high 26 points on 7-10 from three and 5-5 from the free-throw line in 30 minutes at Central Connecticut State on Feb. 7.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Orlando, Fla. native also spent a season at both USC Upstate in 2023-24 and Daytona State College in 2024-25. Placer is the younger brother of former North Florida guard Jose Placer, who played for the Ospreys from 2019-23.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPlacer joins transfers Elijah Elliott (Ohio, Orlando, Fla.) and Hedrens &#8220;Jr&#8221; Bartelus (Chipola College, Lake Worth, Fla.) and a high school class of Isaiah Brown (Stranahan High School, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Christopher Perry (Bradwell Institute, Hinesville, Ga.) and Asa Kohn (Hagerty High School, Oviedo, Fla.).<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0North Florida Men&#8217;s Basketball Head Coach Bobby Kennen announced Friday the signing of Eddie Placer, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-253956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253956","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=253956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}