Pair of Alabama Basketball Players Announce Transfers to New Schools

Two extra former Alabama basketball gamers have discovered new properties. Thursday afternoon was a busy time within the switch portal as Juwan Gary introduced his switch to Nebraska moments earlier than Jusaun Holt introduced his switch to Georgia. 

Gary, who entered the switch portal on April 6, performed in 29 video games final season, making 16 begins. The 6-foot-6, 218-pound guard averaged 6.5 factors and three.4 rebounds and shot 51.4% from the ground and 22% from past the arc. He averaged 15.5 minutes per sport. 

Gary handled an injury-plagued profession all through his three years in Tuscaloosa. A preseason ACL damage pressured him to sit down out the whole 2019-2020 season, and he additionally battled a shoulder damage in 2021 and 2022. Towards LSU in 2022, Gary suffered a facial fracture that prompted him to overlook a number of sport and play the remainder of the common season with a specifically fitted masks.

Throughout Alabama’s SEC title run in 2021, Gary was an enormous contributing issue off the bench within the postseason together with eight factors within the SEC Event championship sport in opposition to LSU and season excessive minutes in opposition to Maryland within the NCAA Event Spherical of 32.  

Holt made 22 appearances final season, averaging 7.0 minutes per sport. The 6-foot-6, 190-pound guard averaged 0.7 factors and 1.6 rebounds whereas capturing 20% from the ground and 10.5% from past the arc. 

Gary and Holt are two of 5 scholarship gamers from the Crimson Tide to enter the switch portal following the conclusion of the 2021-22 season with the loss to Notre Dame within the NCAA Event. James Rojas just lately introduced that he could be transferring to Wichita State. Alex Tchikou and Keon Ambrose-Hylton haven’t but publicly introduced their subsequent touchdown spots.