Arizona’s Bryce James Sends Message After Former Teammate Bryce Cofield’s Transfer Decision

Bryce James watched as Brayden Burries and the Arizona Wildcats fell in need of nationwide championship expectations in the course of the 2025-26 school basketball season.

Arizona completed the common season 32-2 and 16-2 in Big 12 play to earn a No. 1 seed within the NCAA Tournament. However, they fell to the eventual champion Michigan Wolverines within the Final Four.

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The sound of Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James didn’t see motion throughout his freshman season, electing to redshirt. Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd famous the choice “was just a long play, to give Bryce the most options in his career as it unfolds.” While Lloyd has excessive hopes for the guard, certainly one of James’ former highschool teammates has already made a change to his basketball future.

Bryce Cofield, a 6-foot-6 freshman guard out of Sierra Canyon High School (Chatsworth, Calif.), was a three-star prospect within the recruiting class of 2025 on the 247Sports composite. He was the 296th-best prospect in his class, the 58th-best small ahead and the Twenty sixth-best from the state of California. Cofield spent his ultimate two highschool seasons taking part in alongside James.

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Cofield spent his first school basketball season with the Cal State Fullerton Titans, who completed 18-16 and in third place within the Big West. Across his 34 video games performed, together with 22 begins, Cofield averaged 10.1 factors on 46.2% capturing, 4.8 rebounds and a couple of.4 assists per sport. Following the 2025-26 season, Cofield entered his title into the school basketball switch portal.

On Wednesday, Cofield introduced his dedication to Cal State Fullerton’s Big West rival, the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners.

“👌🏾#committed,” Cofield wrote on Instagram with quite a few photographs of himself in Cal State Bakersfield gear.

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James took discover of his former highschool teammate’s switch resolution, exhibiting help for Cofield by sharing the put up on his instagram storiestogether with commenting, “Yeahhhhh.”