Pitt’s Jaland Lowe enters transfer portal
A bad piece of offseason news struck Pitt basketball Tuesday morning when sophomore point guard Jaland Lowe announced his intention to enter the NCAA transfer portal, a source told Trib-Live.
A bad piece of offseason news struck Pitt basketball Tuesday morning when sophomore point guard Jaland Lowe announced his intention to enter the NCAA transfer portal, a source told Trib-Live.
If he leaves the program, Lowe would be the fifth scholarship player to announce plans to transfer since the end of the season. Entering the portal doesn’t automatically guarantee Lowe will leave, however. A possibility exists he could return to Pitt for his junior season if he doesn’t find a better opportunity in collegiate free agency.
Lowe was a two-year starter at Pitt and the Panthers’ best player last season, averaging a teamhigh 16.8 points and 5.5
assists in 31 games.
He shot 88.6% from the free-throw line but only 26.6% from beyond the 3-point arc with 41 makes in 154 attempts. He led the team in 3-point attempts but was only third in makes while the Panthers slumped from 12-2 in January to a final record of 17-15 and no NCAA Tournament berth for the second consecutive season.
Overall, he shot 37.6% from the field (166 of 442) and was the only Pitt regular under 40%.
Lowe, a third-team All-ACC selection this season, was one of coach Jeff Capel’s most decorated recruits when he arrived at Pitt from Missouri City, Texas, in 2023. A four-star prospect, he was ranked No. 66 in the ESPN Top 100 class of ’23 from Fort Bend Marshall High School.
As a freshman during the 2023-24 season, he averaged 9.6 points and 3.3 assists while averaging 26.6 minutes. After scoring 17 points with four rebounds and four assists in an ACC Tournament semifinal loss to North Carolina last year, he assumed the lead guard role on the Panthers when Bub Carrington entered the NBA Draft.
Pitt could have an almost entirely new roster in 2025-26 after Damian Dunn, Ishmael Leggett and Zack Austin exhausted their eligibility and Amsal Delalic, Marlon Barnes and the Diaz Graham twins (Guillermo and Jorge) entered the portal.
The only scholarship players not in the portal are freshman guard Brandin Cummings, junior forward Cameron Corhen, redshirt freshman guard Papa Amadou Kante and freshman forward Amdy Ndiaye. Corhen is the only starter among that group.
