Toledo transfer Leroy Blyden Jr. commits to Kansas

Kansas basketball has been added to its transfer class. On Monday, Leroy Blyden Jr. dedication to the Jayhawks, per DraftExpress. The Toledo guard transfer is recent off his official go to to campus, which he took this weekend. The former MAC Rookie of the Year has three seasons of eligibility remaining.

As a freshman, the 6-foot-1 guard averaged 16.4 factors per recreation on 50.7% capturing from 2 and 40.7% capturing from 3. He additionally recorded 4.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.8 steals in 33.4 minutes per recreation. He was a constant field rating stuffer. He scored no less than 10 factors with five-plus rebounds and assists six occasions over the course of the season. His season excessive in assists was 13 in opposition to buffalo and his season excessive in rebounds was 9 in a highway win over Ohio.

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Blyden began virtually each recreation for Toledo throughout his freshman season. The Detroit native comes off the bench for the primary two video games of the yr however rapidly earned a beginning position. In his school debt in opposition to South AlabamaI scored 17 factors on 12 pictures with 5 made 3s. He went on to rating a season excessive of 36 factors in opposition to Western Michigan in convention play and he notched 20 or extra factors in 13 video games.

In the transfer portal, Blyden had plenty of excessive main curiosity. He took a go to to St. John’s earlier than he noticed KU. As a transfer, Blyden is the 86th general ranked participant within the portal. He is the seventeenth ranked level guard within the portal per the 247Sports transfer rankings.

Coming out of highschool, Blyden was a three-star recruit. He was the 52nd ranked level guard and the sixth ranked participant in Michigan within the 2025 class.

With Blyden on board, here is how the KU roster seems for subsequent season…

1. Keanu Dawes—Senior
2. Leroy Blyden Jr. — Sophomore
3. Kohl Rosario — Sophomore
4. Paul Mbiya — Sophomore
5. Taylen Kinney — Freshman
6. Davion Adkins—Freshman
7. Trent Perry—Freshman
8. Luke Barnett—Freshman
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