Jayden Nixon to Play Fifth Year at Johns Hopkins

Former Virginia basketball participant and UVA alum Jayden Nixon will play his remaining season of faculty basketball at Johns Hopkins, he introduced in an Instagram publish on Sunday. 

Nixon, who entered the switch portal on March twenty eighth, will enroll within the Johns Hopkins Carey Enterprise College and play Division III basketball for the Blue Jays subsequent season. 

A Charlottesville native, Nixon joined the UVA males’s basketball program as a walk-on in 2018 however earned a scholarship for the 2019-2020 season. He appeared in 24 video games during the last 4 seasons, together with 14 appearances within the 2018-2019 nationwide championship season. Nixon lettered in all 4 seasons and was a member of the ACC Educational Honor Roll thrice. 

Nixon, who led UVA’s “Inexperienced Machine” scout workforce for the final 4 seasons, leaves Charlottesville with a level from the College of Virginia and now has a chance to play a giant position on the basketball workforce at Johns Hopkins subsequent season. 

Jayden Nixon is certainly one of 4 gamers to switch from the Virginia males’s basketball program because the finish of the season, becoming a member of Carson McCorkle (Wofford), Igor Milicic Jr. (Charlotte), and Malachi Poindexter (Illinois State). 

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