{"id":281746,"date":"2026-05-06T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281746\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:27:07","slug":"mens-basketball-signs-texas-tech-transfer-jazz-henderson-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281746\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Signs Texas Tech Transfer Jazz Henderson Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ball State men&#8217;s basketball team and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/chris-capko\/2136\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2136\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Capko<\/a> have announced the addition of Texas Tech transfer Jazz Henderson Jr. to the program.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11 guard from Dallas, Texas will be a redshirt sophomore as he joins the team ahead of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson Jr. played in 13 games in 2025-26 and tallied 11 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals for the Red Raiders as a redshirt freshman after redshirting the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In high school, Henderson Jr. was a three-time state champion at Oak Cliff Family where he averaged 14 points and 7 assists per game as a senior.<\/p>\n<p>Academically, Henderson Jr. plans on studying business and finance at Ball State.<\/p>\n<p>This is Ball State&#8217;s seventh incoming transfer of the offseason after K&#8217;Jei Parker (UMass), Aaron Fine (Purdue), Javion Guy-King (Central Arkansas), Jaden Smith (Saint Joseph&#8217;s), Trey Lewis (Western Michigan), and Babatunde Durodola (Temple) signed with the team earlier.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ball State men&#8217;s basketball team and head coach Chris Capko have announced the addition of Texas Tech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-281746","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\/281746","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=281746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}