Dayton basketball: UC transfer in uniform for first time as Flyers play Northern Illinois
Jalen Haynes, a 6-foot-8, 245-pound forward in his first season with the Dayton Flyers, participated in pregame warmups with his teammates for the first time on Saturday, Nov. 7, before a 7 p.m. game against Northern Illinois at UD Arena. Haynes missed the entire 2025-26 season at Cincinnati after suffering a knee injury in October. He underwent a second surgery on the same knee after ...
On Saturday, November 7, Jalen Haynes, a 6-foot-8, 245-pound forward, donned his Dayton Flyers uniform for the first time in his professional career. The player, who had been sidelined due to a knee injury and subsequent surgeries, joined his teammates for pregame warmups ahead of the Flyers' home game against Northern Illinois at UD Arena.
Haynes, who missed the entirety of the 2025-26 season at Cincinnati, had not participated in any practices or games during the summer or preseason. Dayton coach Anthony Grant announced on November 2 that Haynes had returned to practice following the Flyers' season-opening 89-58 win against the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
The 2024-25 season marked Haynes' final appearance in a college game, playing for George Mason where he averaged 14.1 points and 6.9 rebounds. Before Dayton, he had attended four different universities in six years. After graduating from Dillard High School in Florida in 2020, Haynes spent a post-graduate year at Montverde Academy.
He then played for Virginia Tech in 2021-22 before transferring to East Tennessee State, where he averaged 14.6 points and 6.4 rebounds in 28.7 minutes per game over the course of the 2022-23 season.
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