Jaylen Brantley

Position:
Guard
Height:
5-11
Weight:
170
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Springfield, Mass.
High School:
Notre Dame Prep
Prev School:
University of Maryland

Joins the Minutemen after three seasons with the University of Maryland men’s basketball program … Eligible immediately through the NCAA graduate transfer policy.

At Maryland: Averaged 4.9 points per game and shot 38.2 percent overall (55-144) while appearing in all 33 Terrapin games as a junior in 2016-17 … Helped the team post a 24-9 overall record and 12-6 Big Ten mark en route to an NCAA Tournament appearance, the third in as many seasons with the program … Totaled 2.3 points per game, shot 47.4 percent overall and hit 42.9 percent of his 3-point attempts as a sophomore in 2015-16 over 32 games played for Maryland … Sports a career +1.67 assist-to-turnover ratio (50-30) over 814 minutes on the court (12.5 per game) … Played JUCO at Odessa College … Was a 247sports.com four-star recruit out of Notre Dame Prep … Ranked the 12th JUCO Player in America by Next Up Recruits.

Before College: Played AAU basketball for the Boston Amateur Basketball Club … Helped BABC to two AAU national championships … Member was also a member of the 2011 Elite Youth Basketball League championship team … Also won the Peach Jam Tournament in Atlanta in 2011 … Also played soccer in his sophomore and junior years of high school and lettered in tennis for one year … Mother is Angela Cayode.