South Alabama basketball adds former Lenoir-Rhyne, FAMU guard
South Alabama basketball on Friday picked up a commitment from former Lenoir-Rhyne guard Hantz Louis-Jeune, its fourth (and likely final) transfer portal addition for the 2025-26 season.
The 6-foot-5 Louis-Jeune averaged 13.4 points, 5.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game last season for the Bears, who finished 29-6 and reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division II tournament. Louis-Jeune, who has one year of eligibility remaining, was a second-team All-South Atlantic Conference selection.
Louis-Jeune announced his commitment via an Instagram post:
Louis-Jeune, who grew up in Lake Worth, Fla., previously played two seasons each at Florida A&M and Northwest Kansas Technical College. As a player who originally began his career at the junior-college level, he received an extra year of eligibility under the NCAA’s Diego Pavia ruling.
Louis-Jeune joins guards Brian Hawthorne (Rockhurst) and Chaze’ Harris (Life University) and forward Peyton Law (Freed-Hardeman) as South Alabama’s portal additions in the current cycle. The Jaguars also signed high school guards Desmond Williams (Baker) and Samuel Shoptaw (Windermere, Fla.) in November and junior-college forward Stephen Williams (Coastal Alabama South) in March.
South Alabama lost four players via the transfer portal: guard Myles Corey (Rhode Island) and forwards Barry Dunning (Pittsburgh), Ethan Kizer (South Dakota) and Julian Margrave (Nebraska-Omaha). Dunning was a first-team All-Sun Belt Conference selection in 2024-25, while Corey was a third-team pick.
South Alabama finished 21-11 this past season, earning a share of the Sun Belt regular-season championship for the first time in 17 years.