{"id":347431,"date":"2026-07-21T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347431\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:19:08","slug":"miami-lands-michigan-transfer-lj-cason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347431\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami lands Michigan transfer LJ Cason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ADAM ZAGORIA<\/p>\n<p>Michigan transfer guard LJ Cason is on the move to Miami, per reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2 sophomore averaged 8.4 points, 2.4 assists and 1.9 rebounds last season before suffering a torn ACL Feb. 27 against Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida native opted to change teams following Dusty May\u2019s departure to the Dallas Mavericks and is now returning to his home state to play for coach Jai Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>He joins Villanova transfer guard Acaden Lewis, Georgia transfer center Somto Cyril, Robert Morris transfer forward DeSean Goode; Indiana transfer guard Nick Dorn: Saint Peter\u2019s transfer guard Brent Bland, and Bucknell transfer guard  Quin Berger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamZagoria?t=5QRomiOzSPhknS2KCMOdng&amp;s=09\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow ZAGSBLOGHOOPS on Instagram<\/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=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ADAM ZAGORIA Michigan transfer guard LJ Cason is on the move to Miami, per reports. The 6-foot-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-347431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347431","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=347431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}