Shelby transfers to Texas A&M, per report

Men’s Basketball

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Noah Shelby

Former Kansas guard Noah Shelby is transferring to Texas A&M, The Athletic’s Tobias Bass reported on Sunday morning.

Shelby spent one year at KU as a walk-on and redshirted. He will now play for his fourth school in four seasons after beginning his career at Vanderbilt and then moving to Rice.

He will now become the third former Jayhawk to move to A&M and play for its new head coach Bucky McMillan during the 2025 offseason, after Zach Clemence and Rylan Griffen. Griffen, who is from Dallas, and Shelby, who is from McKinney, Texas, were AAU teammates growing up.

Shelby was able to switch schools so late in the offseason cycle — he entered the portal in early July — because of a new transfer window for Designated Student-Athletes, those players who would have lost their roster spots under the new rules of the House v. NCAA settlement but will instead be exempt from roster limits for the remainder of their careers. The one-time summer window for those athletes to transfer, across all sports, closes on Tuesday.

The full list of transfer departures from KU’s 2024-25 roster now includes Clemence, Griffen and Shelby (Texas A&M); David Coit and Rakease Passmore (Maryland); and AJ Storr (Ole Miss).

The Jayhawks, meanwhile, have added transfers Melvin Council Jr. (St. Bonaventure), Jayden Dawson (Loyola-Chicago), Nginyu Ngala (Laurentian) and Tre White (Illinois) as well as freshmen Corbin Allen, Samis Calderon, Paul Mbiya, Darryn Peterson, Kohl Rosario and Bryson Tiller (an early enrollee).

KU recently completed its final week of summer workouts and is less than three months from its first unofficial action, an exhibition at Louisville on Oct. 24.

Written By Henry Greenstein

Henry is the sports editor at the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com, and serves as the KU beat writer while managing day-to-day sports coverage. He previously worked as a sports reporter at The Bakersfield Californian and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., Linguistics) and Arizona State University (M.A., Sports Journalism). Though a native of Los Angeles, he has frequently been told he does not give off “California vibes,” whatever that means.

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