Final season’s SWAC Participant of the 12 months, Jackson State guard Ken Evans, Jr, will proceed his collegiate profession at Florida Atlantic College as a graduate switch, based on a submit on his Instagram account.
The guard entered the portal in March, per On3Sports’ Jamie Shaw.
Jackson State grad switch Ken Evans, Jr. has entered the switch portal @On3sports has discovered
The 6-4 guard earned SWAC Participant of the 12 months honors after averaging 18.8 factors on 39.2% 3P. Is initially from Mississippi.https://t.co/rrbfwWnEYu pic.twitter.com/0Voj6h88ju
— Jamie Shaw (@JamieShaw5) March 19, 2024
As a redshirt freshman, Evans appeared in 18 video games, with 4 begins, averaging 4.6 factors, 3.0 rebounds, and 1.4 assists in 19.2 minutes per contest. He took a step ahead in his sophomore marketing campaign, beginning in 24 of the 29 video games he participated in and upping his manufacturing to 7.1 factors, 4.4 rebounds, and a pair of.0 assists.
Evans continued to enhance his recreation in his third season, changing into the crew’s third-leading scorer, placing up 11.3 factors per contest. The Jackson native put collectively a season in 2023-24 during which he not solely led the crew in scoring but additionally paced the complete Southwestern Athletic Convention with 18.8 factors per recreation.
Evans’s play additionally garnered him SWAC Participant of the Week twice this yr. He topped the 1,000-point mark in JSU’s 73-64 win over Texas Southern on January 22. He poured in a career-high 37 factors in an 89-84 win in opposition to Arkansas-Pine Bluff on March 7.
Evans joins a Florida Atlantic program coming off a season during which the Owls recorded a 25-9 general file and 14-4 within the American Athletic Convention and in addition appeared within the NCAA Match.
