{"id":273260,"date":"2026-04-30T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273260\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:59:10","slug":"texas-am-adds-shelley-to-2026-27-roster-texas-am-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273260\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M Adds Shelley to 2026-27 Roster &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE STATION \u2013\u00a0Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball added junior transfer Jalen Shelley to the 2026-27 roster, head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/bucky-mcmillan\/1995\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1995\" target=\"_blank\">Bucky McMillan<\/a> announced Thursday.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShelley played the 2025-26 season at LMU after spending his freshman year at USC. The 6-8, 210-pound forward started the first 25 games of the season before being sidelined by an injury. He averaged 13.7 points per game and ranked among the top-six in the West Coast Conference bringing down 6.6 rebounds per outing, including a 5.6 per-game average on the defensive boards. Shelley registered four double-doubles and four 20-point games on the year, scoring a career-high 27 at San Francisco and nearing his fifth double-double with 24 points and nine rebounds in his final game of the year. He earned All-WCC Honorable Mention accolades following his lone season with the Lions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn his first collegiate season Shelley played in 22 games for the Trojans, making one start. The Little Elm, Texas, native scored a season-high 10 points against Purdue and brought down a season-best eight rebounds against Maryland.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0Shelley closed out his high school career at Link Academy in Missouri, leading the team to the semifinals of the 2024 Chipotle Nationals. As a junior he played at Plano Prestonwood Christian High School where he helped the team to a 26-6 record and a TAPPS 6A state title after averaging 18.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow the Aggies<br \/>\nVisit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12thMan.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information on Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball. Fans can keep up with Aggie men&#8217;s basketball team on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggiembk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiembk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and X by following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aggiembk\" rel=\"nofollow\">@AggieMBK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2013\u00a0Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball added junior transfer Jalen Shelley to the 2026-27 roster, head coach Bucky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-273260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273260","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=273260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}