{"id":728043,"date":"2026-05-07T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/728043\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:24:18","slug":"jaylen-curry-commits-to-virginia-tech-for-his-senior-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/728043\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Curry commits to Virginia Tech for his senior year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Known for his explosive footwork, Jaylen Curry has committed to Virginia Tech<\/a> who are in desperate need of a spark plug for their offence after Neoklis Avdalas left Blacksburg in favour of a reportedly large payday with the North Carolina Tar Heels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curry, despite only being 6ft1 is a tough competitor and has a seemingly never ending motor that lifted his Oklahoma State<\/a> team at times last season.<\/p>\n

Despite being utilised mostly off the bench by Oklahoma State<\/a>\u2019s HC Steve Lutz, The 21 year-old still played over 23 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

One of the main criticisms of Curry\u2019s game during his first two collegiate seasons with the UMass Minutemen was his ‘wonky’ shooting form and a low free-throw rate.<\/p>\n

Following his transfer to Tulsa<\/a> last summer, the Guard evidently worked hard on his game and managed to increase his FT rate from the low sixties to an encouraging 80.6% while also climbing to over 40% from the field for the first time in his college career.<\/p>\n

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\nOklahoma State<\/a> Cowboys guard Jaylen Curry (0) drives around Kansas City Roos guard CJ Evans (2) on December 18th, 2025 at Gallager Iba Arena in Stillwater, Oklahoma. (Photo by WJl\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Curry was fourth on his roster in attempted three-pointers on a high tempo, attack minded team, but did most of his attacking inside the arc, getting to the basket or hitting the midrange jumper.<\/p>\n

Big Season ahead for the Hokies?<\/p>\n

The former Oklahoma State<\/a> Guard is Virginia Tech Head Coach, Mike Young\u2019s fourth new recruit so far this recruitment cycle.<\/p>\n

Following an impressive 12-2 start to last campaign that included a huge victory over their in state rival Virginia<\/a>, the Hokies went 8-10 in Conference play and crashed out in an overtime thriller against Wake Forest<\/a> in Round 1 of the ACC Tournament.<\/p>\n

What Curry brings to Mike Young’s Hokies<\/p>\n

Going into his seventh year leading the program, Young will be hoping Curry can help propel his new look side into the NCAA Tournament<\/a> for the first time since their First Round<\/a> loss to Texas<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Known for his explosive footwork, Jaylen Curry has committed to Virginia Tech who are in desperate need of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[9431,7,217,72658,7456,49670,231,772,7989,1544,14720,12809],"class_list":["post-728043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-acc-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-jaylen-curry","tag-march-madness","tag-mike-young","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-transfer-portal","tag-ncaab","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-virginia-tech-hokies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116533281732754727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728043","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=728043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}