{"id":204290,"date":"2026-04-21T03:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:41:07","slug":"rutgers-lands-manhattan-transfer-will-sydnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204290\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers lands Manhattan transfer Will Sydnor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/teams\/rutgers\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rutgers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Rutgers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rutgers<\/a> has landed another member of the frontcourt prepared to battle for a starting spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Manhattan transfer Will Sydnor announced on Monday night that he has committed to Rutgers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sydnor attended Manhattan as a member of the 2024 recruiting class. He hails from Brooklyn and attended The Patrick School. Now, the 6-foot-8 forward returns to New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sydnor did not play last season due to eligibility issues. He was named the MAAC Rookie of the Year in 2024-25 after making 29 starts for Manhattan. He averaged 13.9 points and 6.8 rebounds per game while shooting 45.1% from the floor. Syudnor also shot 34.8% from three-point range. He will come to Rutgers with three years of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rutgers has now added four transfers this offseason. Sydnor joins 6-foot-10 center Christian Gurdak, who comes over from <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/teams\/virginia-tech\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Virginia Tech;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Virginia Tech&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Tech<\/a>, and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/teams\/central-connecticut-state\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Central Connecticut State;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Central Connecticut State&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Connecticut State<\/a> transfer Darin Smith Jr. The first signing this cycle was international transfer guard Lewis Duarte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rutgers has landed another member of the frontcourt prepared to battle for a starting spot. Manhattan transfer Will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[80818,7068,80816,23654,75,84,18235,83,80815,9,24,63,19747,80817,42624],"class_list":{"0":"post-204290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-central-connecticut-state","9":"tag-derik-queen","10":"tag-deshawn-harris-smith","11":"tag-mandatory-credit","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-headlines","14":"tag-manhattan-jaspers","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-maryland-terrapins","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-rutgers","21":"tag-selton-miguel","22":"tag-virginia-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}