{"id":717942,"date":"2026-04-25T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/717942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:15:30","slug":"former-uconn-guard-finds-new-home-with-familiar-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/717942\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UConn guard finds new home with familiar coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UConn guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5248294\/jacob-furphy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Furphy<\/a> has reportedly found a new home, and it\u2019ll be with a coach he knows well.<\/p>\n<p>Furphy has committed to Boston College, according to multiple reports. He\u2019ll play for former UConn assistant Luke Murray, who has taken over as head coach at BC.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-6 guard played in just 14 games as a freshman last season, averaging just 2.4 minutes per. The Australian native was a four-star recruit in the Class of 2025, landing in the Top 100 in <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/jacob-furphy-46153218\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">247Sports\u2019 rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Murray and his staff have already landed <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/boston-college\/longformarticle\/boston-college-basketball-offseason-tracker-tracking-the-eagles-movement-ahead-of-transfer-portal-opening-280076248\/#2818315\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four transfers in the portal<\/a>: guard Money Williams from Montana, Merrimack guard Ernest Shelton, Northeastern guard JB Frankel and Fairfield forward Brandon Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p>UConn has added Seton Hall big man Najai Hines, Duke forward Nikolas Khamenia, and Stanford center Oskar Giltay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UConn guard Jacob Furphy has reportedly found a new home, and it\u2019ll be with a coach he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,323,89444,217,325,2340,925,89442,2679,24965,89443,68003,231,772,1544,8485,4161,4666,66,1123,2051,15790,2681,89445],"class_list":{"0":"post-717942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-college","10":"tag-boston-college-transfers","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-college-sports","13":"tag-connecticut","14":"tag-ct-news","15":"tag-jacob-furphy","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-luke-murray","18":"tag-luke-murray-transfers","19":"tag-max-image-preview","20":"tag-ncaa","21":"tag-ncaa-basketball","22":"tag-ncaab","23":"tag-portal","24":"tag-recruiting","25":"tag-recruits","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-transfer","28":"tag-transfer-portal","29":"tag-transfers","30":"tag-uconn-mens-basketball","31":"tag-uconn-transfers-out"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116466950064925461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717942","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=717942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}