UL Basketball Adds Jeremy Hayes

The Louisiana Ragin' Cajun men's basketball team will have another name on the roster for the 2018-2019 season.

Junior college guard guard Jeremy Hayes has signed a National Letter-of-Intent to play for Louisiana, beginning with the 2018-19 season.

A native of Roseland, La., Hayes averaged 16.0 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists as a sophomore last season at Howard (Texas) College.

The 6-foot-3, 175-pound Hayes, who was listed as the No. 67 recruit by JucoRecruiting.com, was named first-team All-Western Junior College Athletic Conference, while also being tabbed a NJCAA Region 5 selection.

In his only season at Howard, Hayes started all 31 games, while shooting 42 percent from the field (148-for-347), 39 percent (50-for-128) from behind the 3-point line and 83 percent (151-for-183) from the free-throw line.

View Hayes' complete stats, here.

As a freshman, Hayes played at Tallahassee (Fla.) Community College, where he averaged 10.2 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game.

A graduate of John Muir High School in Pasadena, Calif., Hayes played his sophomore season at Amite High School.

Hayes joins R.J. Gladney, Kobe Julien, Kristian Lafayette, and Trajan Wesley, all incoming freshmen, as the newcomers for the 2018-2019 season.