Jaylen Blakes Season 2024-25

Career Accolades

• Two-time All-ACC Academic Team (2023, 2024)
• Two-time Dr. Deryl Hart Award recipient at Duke (2023, 2024)
• Duke's Glenn E. “Ted” Mann Award recipient in 2023

As a Graduate Student (at Stanford, 2024-25)

• Transferred to Stanford prior to the 2024-25 season. Third straight season for Stanford to add a graduate transfer.

As a Junior (at Duke, 2023-24)

• All-ACC Academic Team
• Received Duke's Dr. Deryl Hart Award as the team's top scholar-athlete
• Appeared in 31 games with one start
• Averaged 1.8 points per game while recording a career-best 21 steals on the season
• Scored a season-best 15 points on 5-for-5 shooting against Charlotte (Dec. 9)
• Averaged 1.2 steals per game in the NCAA Tournament
• Reached the NCAA Elite Eight
• Prior to the season, was one of six Duke student-athletes to participate in the ACC's Unity Tour in Washington, D.C.

As a Sophomore (at Duke, 2022-23)

• All-ACC Academic Team
• Received Duke's Dr. Deryl Hart Award as the team's top scholar-athlete as well as the Glenn E. “Ted” Mann Award, given to the reserve who most contributed to team morale
• Appeared in 32 games with two starts
• Averaged 3.3 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game, boasted a 2.05:1 assist-to-turnover ratio
• Scored a career-best 17 points twice, at Wake Forest (Dec. 20) and vs. Florida State (Dec. 31)
• Helped Duke to the second round of the NCAA Tournament
• Prior to the season, competed for USA East Coast Basketball in the summer on an overseas tour in Barcelona, Spain with other collegiate players from the United States

As a Freshman (at Duke, 2021-22)

• Appeared in 21 games off the bench
• Averaged 1.0 points and 0.7 rebounds per game
• Reached the NCAA Final Four

Before College

• Four-star, top-100 recruit via On3 and ESPN.
• Ranked as high as No. 74 nationally and as the top-rated player in the state of New Jersey from On3
• Slotted at No. 89 by ESPN as the second-best player in New Jersey.
• Originally chose Duke over a plethora of high major programs, including Stanford.
• Averaged 18.2 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game as a junior at Blair Academy
• Helped lead Blair to the Mid-Atlantic Prep League title and NJISAA Prep "A" State Championship
• Took part in the USA Basketball Men's Junior National Team minicamp in July of 2019

Personal

• Parents are Nikkia and Monroe Blakes
• Has one sister, Mikayla