{"id":265141,"date":"2026-05-09T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265141\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:41:07","slug":"uconn-adds-jacksonville-state-transfer-jaye-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265141\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn adds Jacksonville State transfer Jaye Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ADAM ZAGORIA<\/p>\n<p>Dan Hurley and his staff continue to build their roster for 2026-27 as they attempt to make yet another Final Four run.<\/p>\n<p>The Huskies on Saturday landed a commitment from Jacksonville State transfer point guard Jaye Nash for backcourt depth, sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 Memphis native averaged 5.1 points, 4.0 assists and 2.8 rebounds last season while shooting 31% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>UConn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zagsblog.com\/2026\/04\/29\/uconn-signs-four-incoming-transfers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced the signings<\/a> of Oskar Giltay, Najai Hines,\u00a0Nikolas Khamenia and Nils Machowski.<\/p>\n<p>The quintet of newcomers join returners Solo Ball, Silas Demary Jr., Braylon Mullins, Jacob Ross and Jayden Ross along with incoming freshmen Junior County and Colben Landrew\u00a0on the 2026-27 UConn roster.<\/p>\n<p>In other UConn related news, 7-2 transfer center Rrezon Elezaj has signed with Appalachian State, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2053214965541060724\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elezaj redshirted as a freshman at UConn last season. Before that, he played with Turkey\u2019s 2025 FIBA U18 Eurobasket team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamZagoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitte<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">r<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow ZAGSBLOGHoops on<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like ZAGS on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ADAM ZAGORIA Dan Hurley and his staff continue to build their roster for 2026-27 as they attempt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-265141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265141","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=265141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}