Jalen Coleman-Lands will be given one extra NCAA Basketball season to play. Which teams are after the grad transfer guard?
There are always a few NCAA Basketball players that you feel has been around for a decade. TJ Haws and Payton Pritchard rings a bell from this past season and there certainly will be seniors in 2020-21 that provide that same feeling. One of them will be Jalen Coleman-Lands, who we now know will be around for one more year.
This past season was considered the guard’s senior year but the NCAA gave Coleman-Lands some great news, granting him a medical redshirt after playing just nine games in the 2018-19 season after suffering a broken hand. He rebounded with a solid season with DePaul Basketball, averaging 11.7 ppg on 36%.
Those numbers have been along the normal for Coleman-Lands through his entire NCAA Basketball career, averaging around double-figures on not-so-great shooting numbers. He was much better in his first two seasons at Illinois when it came to shooting from three-point range compared to the Blue Demons but still has a career 36% shooting percentage on two makes a game.
When healthy, Coleman-Lands provides a solid presence at shooting guard and a capable double-digit scorer at a power conference level. He’s an All-Conference caliber player but can be a starter for a power conference program that still needs more talent at this point in the offseason.
Just a while ago, the graduate transfer announced a final group of teams, including Cal, NC State, Iowa State, Michigan and USC. The following is a look at how he fits with each of program.