OXFORD, Miss. — Opening night for the Ole Miss men’s basketball team was filled with highlights, punctuated by a 90-60 win over Long Island to kick off the 2024-25 regular season. Among those bright spots was returning guard Jaylen Murray surpassing 1,000 points for his collegiate career.
The Bronx, N.Y. native who goes by Juju transferred to Ole Miss for the 2023-24 season after spending two years at Saint Peter’s. Murray accumulated 554 points over two seasons with the Peacocks before dropping 441 in his first year in Oxford.
The bucket that gave Jaylen Murray 1,000 career points https://t.co/hfQsMjLs0Q pic.twitter.com/ehm6T5r8Yy
— Ole Miss Men’s Basketball (@OleMissMBB) November 5, 2024
Midway through the first half against Long Island on Monday night, Murray drove the lane and scored a clean layup to hit the 1K mark.
Murray would go on to finish with a game-high 24 points on 7-10 shooting, the second-most points scored in a single game during his college career. He tied his career-best with five makes from three-point range, adding three rebounds and a block on the defensive end.
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