{"id":715033,"date":"2026-04-21T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:39:51","slug":"rutgers-basketball-lands-manhattan-transfer-will-sydnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715033\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers Basketball lands Manhattan transfer Will Sydnor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Basketball is on the board yet again, as the Scarlet Knights have landed a commitment from former Manhattan transfer forward Will Sydnor<\/a>, he announced on social media.<\/p>\n

Sydnor spent his freshman year with the Jaspers in 2024-25 before sitting out the 2025-26 season due to an eligibility issue with his transcript, but that has since been cleared. He will have three years of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-8, 210-pounder becomes the second transfer portal addition to the frontcourt, after losing six members to graduation or the transfer portal.<\/p>\n

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In 31 games as a freshman 2024-25, Sydnor put up 13.9 points per game, 6.8 rebounds per game, 1.5 assists per game, and shot 45.1% from the floor and 34.8% from three. He started 29 of Manhattan\u2019s 30 games and averaged 29.5 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

As a member of the Class of 2024, Sydnor was recruited out of The Patrick School<\/a> (NJ) and originally hailed from Bronx, New York, according to the\u00a0Rivals Industry Ranking<\/a>. He was unranked as a high school recruit.<\/p>\n

He spent his senior year with the Celtics in high school, but previously played at First Love Christian Academy<\/a> in Pennsylvania, where he played alongside current Scarlet Knight guard Tariq Francis<\/a>. Sydnor earned Non-PIAA Second Team honors as a junior.<\/p>\n

Look for Sydnor to likely battle it out with Darren Buchanan<\/a> for the starting forward spot on next year\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n

Rutgers Basketball roster breakdown<\/p>\n

Here is how the Scarlet Knights\u2019 roster currently projects with how many years of eligibility each have left, as the transfer portal closes on April 22nd.<\/p>\n

Guards: Jamichael Davis<\/a> (one year), Tariq Francis<\/a> (one year), Lino Mark<\/a> (three years), Kaden Powers<\/a> (three years), Imahri Wooten<\/a> (four years), Lewis Duarte<\/a> (three years)
Forwards: Darren Buchanan Jr.<\/a> (one year), Darin Smith Jr. <\/a>(two years), Will Sydnor (three years)
Centers: Christian Gurdak<\/a> (three years), Gevonte Ware<\/a> (three years)<\/p>\n

All returners but Powers have announced their re-signing with the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rutgers Basketball is on the board yet again, as the Scarlet Knights have landed a commitment from former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,2356,49604,89150],"class_list":{"0":"post-715033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-nj","14":"tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights-piscataway","15":"tag-will-sydnor-23-the-patrick-school"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116441565662237567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}