{"id":577383,"date":"2026-04-11T05:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577383\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:55:08","slug":"unc-guard-jaydon-young-returning-for-senior-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577383\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Guard Jaydon Young Returning for Senior Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 After second thought, Jaydon Young<\/a> will withdraw from the transfer portal and return to Chapel Hill for his senior season.\u00a0The 6-foot-4 guard announced his decision with On3\u2019s Joe Tipson on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Meetings between new head coach Michael Malone<\/a> and North Carolina players \u2014 seven of whom entered the portal \u2014 were held this week, giving Malone the opportunity to share his vision and evaluate the best path forward for each player.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some players on the roster that\u2019s currently in the portal,\u201d Malone said Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019re going to talk to them more about that in the coming days, and then we\u2019ll look to see what\u2019s available outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCulture is something that you have to work on every single day. I think as we put pieces together, we\u2019re going to have a chance to have success, because we\u2019re going to be about the right things and work on those things every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young, a Goldsboro, N.C. native, appeared in 31 games, making four starts between late January and early February. He logged a season-high 20 minutes in UNC\u2019s win over Wake Forest on Jan. 10, scoring a season-best 12 points. His total season averages were 1.8 points in 8.5 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

Young, the final addition to Davis\u2019 transfer portal class, joined his childhood fandom team after spending two seasons at Virginia Tech. Initially committed to High Point out of the portal, Young flipped his commitment to UNC in April.<\/p>\n

A product of Greensboro (N.C.) Day School, Young was a three-star prospect ranked No. 217 nationally before committing to Virginia Tech out of high school. He averaged 8.1 points as a sophomore in Blacksburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 After second thought, Jaydon Young will withdraw from the transfer portal and return to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[253596,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-577383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-jaydon-young-23-greensboro-day-school","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577383","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=577383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}