{"id":26052,"date":"2025-07-21T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26052\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:07:11","slug":"cj-jones-to-return-to-kansas-state-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26052\/","title":{"rendered":"CJ Jones to return to Kansas State in 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>After entering the transfer portal, CJ Jones has decided to return to Kansas State for the 2025-26 season, GoPowercat confirms.<\/p>\n<p>Jones first entered the portal on April 21 but was never able to find the right home. Now, two months later, he&#8217;s officially sticking with the Wildcats for another season.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-5 athlete averaged 5.7 points, 1.5 assists and 18.9 minutes per game in 2024-25. Jones started in nine games.<\/p>\n<p>Jones spent his first two collegiate seasons at UIC. He has one season of eligibility remaining.\u00a0Scoring 12 points at UCF and vs. Mississippi Valley State, along with 10-point outings against Arizona State, Arizona and West Virginia, Jones cracked double figures in five games for the Wildcats. Jones logged a season-high 28 minutes at Wichita State.<\/p>\n<p>Jones joins David Castillo, Mobi Ikegwuruka and Taj Manning as returning players from last year&#8217;s squad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.247sports.com\/college\/kansas-state\/join\/?promo=JOIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe\u00a0NOW TO GoPOWERCAT.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his two seasons in Chicago, Jones averaged 9.0 points on 39.4 percent shooting (216-of-548), including 36 percent (54-of-150) from 3-point range, to go with 3.6 assists, 2.7 rebounds and 0.9 steals in 30.2 minutes per game while playing in 62 of a possible 65 games with 50 starts for head coach\u00a0Luke Yaklich.<\/p>\n<p>Jones played two seasons at East St. Louis High School in East St. Louis, Ill., where he led the Flyers to a 27-6 record and a berth in the Class 3A Super Sectionals in 2021-22. As a senior, he averaged 15.5 points on 38.9 percent shooting with 7.0 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game. He scored a season-high 31 points against Rockford East in his second game of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After entering the transfer portal, CJ Jones has decided to return to Kansas State for the 2025-26 season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-26052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}