2025-2026 roster

[LJay]

Okay, so the Jays got their second 5 man and stand at 10 scholarship level players. Nice!

I could see Mac only doing one more top level guy. With the portal you can reload so quickly and not need to bring on kids for potential development who are projects. I think a really athletic guy like the dude from Wichiturd could round things out nicely.

Whether the coaches bring on more practice players or not I’m not sure. In the past they cost you little but now if they cost six figures of NIL maybe you roll with less than 15 each year.

[bluejayfan2054]

I find it hard to believe they won’t have the 15 for practice purposes. I’m sure they can get some walk on guys to fill 3-4 spots for basically no NIL

[Jaysfan100]

We are talented. But gosh darn it we are so white lol. I wouldn’t be against Davis moving on and us getting a athletic freshman PG who can also move over to SG

[jayrock222]

I like Davis. He has size for a point guard. Seems like a good head for the game. I expect he will be an upgrade defensively. Plus he has been with us for a year so I would expect he will know what he is doing more than a transfer.

[psychojaysfan3]

I feel like Davis is a total wildcard. Being a D1 freshman is tough, and I think its even tougher in a league like the Big East. But I was hoping for a little more out of this freshman season. I think he has some good tools and showed some strong flashes, but there was A LOT more bad than good. Hard to see him ever developing into a Power Conference starter, unless he takes some massive steps this offseason.

But can he be a guy that can provide us with 10 decent minutes a game next season as a depth piece? I think so. And that's really all we need. He doesn't need to be a star, just needs to be a solid ball handler that can distribute and play some defense. We should have plenty of guys that can score so don't think he even needs to provide much bench scoring.

[mightyskid]

Possible positions…….
At the 1: Graves(1), Davis(2) & Swartz(3)
At the 2: Zugic(4), Dix(5), Swartz, Greer(6) & Thomas(wo)
At the 3: Green(7), Zugic, Dix & Greer (maybe Swartz)
At the 4: McAndrew(8), Traudt (9) & Green
At the 5: Freeman (10) & Dimitrijevic (11)
**Numbers in ( ) tally for players once seen as ‘ship players
***Could we see 2 to 3 more roster additions?

[#RollJays]

Possible positions…….
At the 1: Graves(1), Davis(2) & Swartz(3)
At the 2: Zugic(4), Dix(5), Swartz, Greer(6) & Thomas(wo)
At the 3: Green(7), Zugic, Dix & Greer (maybe Swartz)
At the 4: McAndrew(8), Traudt (9) & Green
At the 5: Freeman (10) & Dimitrijevic (11)
**Numbers in ( ) tally for players once seen as ‘ship players
***Could we see 2 to 3 more roster additions?

With JTT we only have room for 2 more players. Not sure we could actually get another high level player in the portal without a defection. Maybe a small ball 5? Have to think to think at least 1 of the 2 would be redshirt candidate or walk on. Scout team could benefit from a point guard tho.

[TrueBlueJay]

I’m thinking we may see some small ball at times - Traudt at the 5 once in a while?

[Wizard of Westroads]

4th in 247 portal rankings:

https://247sports.com/Season/2025-Basketball/TransferTeamRankings/

We were first in On3 yesterday with Swartz added, now 11th.

[Alphawalt]

Here’s my view of the starting five next year: Graves (certainly going to be primary PG), Dix (very good shooting guard, one of top portal players, signed to play many minutes), Freeman (one of top available transfer centers, will play as many minutes as conditioning and staying out of foul trouble allow), Greer (he is one of the stud freshmen this year in all of college ball, possible one and done, the type of freshman able to start from day one as has played a few years of high level ball), McAndrew (shot is getting really sweet, conditioning needs to improve a little).

Significant minutes off bench: Zugic, who was coming into his own last few games, likely 6th man off the bench; Green, will provide great rebounding and scoring off bench with significant minutes; Traudt, a gifted scorer who will provide good cover in games where foul trouble come into play for one of the starters; Dimitrijevic, solid backup center; Swartz, who is probably one of the most underrated transfers who can shoot but just needs to buy into Jays system, I think he will be a very pleasant surprise.

Thus, I see this year as one Jays will play 10 players regularly 10 minutes plus per game. Because of the numbers at guard, I don’t see Davis playing 10 minutes plus per game other than a few games. This team is the deepest Jays team I have seen. I know we were hoping the past few years we had a deep team, but I think the next year’s team is the deep team we have been waiting for. Lack of production off the bench has been the team’s biggest weakness. Jays should definitely make tournament and win first game for 6th year in a row. Team chemistry that will emerge will decide how much further they go.