• Player
• Seasons: 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
• Number: 11
• Position: G
• Height: 6' 4“
• Weight: 206
• Hometown: Ayer MA
• High School: ?
• Prep School: The Rivers School
• Transfer From: none
• Birthday: ?
• Name pronunciation: jay-den jing-gay¹⁾²⁾

• Workhorse that may not always fill the stat sheet, but brings the effort that has made him a regular in the starting lineup.
• Verbally committed on 8/9/2022.³⁾⁴⁾⁵⁾ Signed on 11/9/22.⁶⁾
• Official roster page from UMass Athletics
• NIL partner with The Mass Collective.⁷⁾⁸⁾

• One of the three returning scholarship players from 2024-25.

• Appeared in 31 of the season's 32 games on the season, missing the one due to flu. Started in 25.
• Averaged 4.7 per game in both points and rebounds.
• Field goal percentage dipped from frosh to soph seasons, coinciding with the entire team's struggles from the field in 2024-25.
• Came off the bench in the first six games, as Frank experimented with personnel combinations. Little worked well to start the season as the team lost 5 straight, and Jayden regained his starting role for game #7 at Harvard (11/27), in which UMass got the road win, and he pulled in a then-career-high-matching 11 rebounds.
• Scored 11 points off the bench in game #5 versus Temple (11/23).
• Put up 17-8-5 against UMass Lowell (12/7), setting a new career high in points.
• Scored 11 points, including 5-5 from the line, against Richmond (1/4).
• Snared 7 boards in the win over Dayton (1/8).
• Came just short of a double-double, with 9 points and a career-high 13 boards, in the win against La Salle (1/19/25). Also blocked 5 (also a career-high) and dished 3 assists.
• Pulled in 8 boards and dished 5 assists in the win at La Salle (2/9).
• Put up 10-6-5 against Davidson (2/12), and hit a couple of threes.
• Missed the St. Bonaventure game (2/15) as a flu was going thru the team. Started four days later at VCU (2/19) and logged 33 minutes.
• Snared 10 boards versus La Salle (3/12).
• Game logs
• 3/27/25 article: The Minutemen’s Engine On and Off the Court

• True freshman started all 31 games on the season
• Earned Frank Martin's trust by doing the little things that don't always show up in the stat sheet
• Averaged 5.5 points and 4.9 boards in 24.5 minutes per game
• Started with a 3-pointer and 6 rebounds in the win over Albany (11/7)
• Shot 4-5 from the field, including a pair of 3s, and 10 total points, plus 6 boards in the win over Quinnipiac (11/13)
• Article: In first collegiate season, Jayden Ndjigue emerges as UMass’ ‘glue guy’ (12/2)
• Snared 8 boards in the rock fight win over South Florida (12/2) and at Towson (12/6)
• Had a nice trip to Hawai'i and the Diamond Head Classic. Set a new early career high with 11 points, plus 4 boards and 5 steals, versus Georgia Tech (12/21). Upped it with 13 points, plus 5 boards, in the win over Portland (12/22). Came within a point of three-straight double-figure games, with 9 points in the win over Old Dominion (12/24)
• A-10 Rookie of the Week for the week ending 12/26⁹⁾
• Tallied 7 & 6 in the win over Duquesne (1/3)
• Put up 8 & 6 at Loyola (1/17)
• Snared a season/career-high 11 boards, and put up 8 points, over Saint Joseph's (1/23)
• Solid game with 10-6-5 in the win over George Mason (2/3)
• Put up 12 & 5 at St. Bonaventure (2/7)
• Tallied 8 & 6 in the win at GW (2/27)
• Finished with 8 & 7 versus VCU in the A10 Tournament (3/14)
• Game logs
• Get To Know video
• June 2024: Commonwealth Conversation from The Mass Collective

Additional data: Sports Reference

Through the end of the 2024-25 season

Additional source: RealGM.com

• Played at The Rivers School in Weston MA, and in AAU for Mass Rivals¹⁰⁾
• With Rivers, won back to back NEPSAC Class B titles as well as tournament MVPs¹¹⁾
• Also received offers from UMBC, Brown, BU, LIU, Merrimack, and Albany

• Twitter: @J11yden
• Instagram: @ndjigue