DePaul guard Jalen Terry enters the NCAA Transfer Portal
DePaul guard Jalen Terry has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, On3 has learned. He has spent the past three seasons at with the Blue Demons. He began his career at Oregon, where he spent one season.
This past season, Terry played in 23 games and made 18 starts. He averaged a career-high 8.5 points per game while shooting 41.7% from the field and 45.2% from beyond the arc. He also averaged 4.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists per contest.
In three seasons with the Blue Demons, Terry made 74 appearances, including 52 starts. He averaged 7.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists per outing. In his lone season at Oregon, Terry appeared in 20 games and averaged 2.9 points in 11.6 minutes per game.
Jalen Terry played high school basketball at Beecher (MI), where he was a four-star prospect. He was the No. 69 overall recruit in the 2020 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
Tumultuous times at DePaul
Terry is the sixth DePaul player to enter the transfer portal. The program has seen a mass exodus since the season ended. DePaul fired head coach Tony Stubblefield midway through January after going 3-15 overall and 0-7 in conference play.
Interim head coach Matt Brady was unable to lead the Blue Demons to another win the rest of the season. The program finished with a 3-29 record. On March 14, DePaul hired Ohio State’s Chris Holtmann to be its next head coach.
Holtmann spent nearly seven seasons with the Buckeyes, before being let go. The Buckeyes made the NCAA Tournament four times under Holtmann but didn’t make the Big Dance last season and were on pace to miss out again in 2024 before he was let go.
Despite Holtmann’s underwhelming conclusion to his tenure at Ohio State, he is excited to take the reigns at DePaul.
“I’ll be honest, as I went through this process, there were people who I care about, who care about me, who said, ‘Are you ready for this?’” Holtmann said. “Are you ready for the challenges of rebuilding this program? Are you ready to jump in? Almost as a word of caution.
“While I thought about some of the challenges and while I recognize there are always going to be difficult days, there always are when you’re trying to compete at the very highest level. In anything you do, there will be difficult days.”