{"id":220882,"date":"2026-03-26T04:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/220882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:13:19","slug":"tcu-reserve-guard-rj-jones-expected-to-enter-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/220882\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU reserve guard RJ Jones expected to enter transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/college\/big-12\/texas-christian-university\/article315142130.html\">TCU basketball<\/a> reserve guard RJ Jones intends to enter the transfer portal, the Star-Telegram confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic was the first to report Jones\u2019 intention to enter the portal. A source says Jones is not officially in the portal yet, but confirmed he\u2019s expected to enter in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Jones spent the last two seasons with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/college\/big-12\/texas-christian-university\/article315144163.html\">TCU<\/a> after starting his career with Kansas State. He missed all of 2024-25 season with an injury and appeared in nine games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Jones averaged 2.6 points in 6.1 minutes per game. His best moment as a Horned Frog came when he came off the bench and scored 14 points to help TCU avoid an upset to Florida A&amp;M on Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Jones arrived in Fort Worth with relatively high expectations after a promising freshman season at Kansas State. He appeared in 28 games for the Wildcats after being a four-star recruit out of high school.<\/p>\n<p>With Jones\u2019 anticipated departure, the Horned Frogs are now set to lose Jones, senior guard Jayden Pierre and senior center Vianney Salatchoum.<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Frogs are bringing in top-ranked junior-college guard Trent Lincoln next season and are anticipated to pursue a veteran guard in the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>TCU finished the season 23-12 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/college\/big-12\/texas-christian-university\/article315142123.html\">The Horned Frogs fell to Duke 81-58<\/a> on March 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published March 24, 2026 at 8:06 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCU basketball reserve guard RJ Jones intends to enter the transfer portal, the Star-Telegram confirmed on Tuesday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,58326,86047,35108,86046],"class_list":["post-220882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-jamie-dixon","tag-rj-jones","tag-tcu-basketball","tag-tcu-transfer-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}