Ex-WVU Guard Treysen Eaglestaff Returns to School, Transfers to Mid-Major

Former West Virginia wing Treysen Eaglestaff is headed back to college for one more year after receiving a preliminary injunction in Texas and will play his final year of collegiate basketball at UC San Diego, according to college hoops insider Jeff Goodman.

Eaglestaff spent some time with the New York Knicks in the NBA's Summer League, but saw limited action, averaging just 1.5 points and two assists in an average of 4.6 minutes over two games. He went 1/8 (12%) from the floor and 1/7 (14%) from three-point range.

He is one of many players who played in the Summer League who are now returning to college for one more year, and for him, he'll need a big year at UC San Diego to be considered on teams' draft boards. The good thing for him is that next year's draft class is significantly weaker than the one that just rolled through, so there's a chance he could play his way into being a second-round pick if he meets expectations with his new squad.

Why it didn't work at West Virginia like everyone thought it would

West Virginia University guard Treysen Eaglestaff | Christopher Hall - West Virginia on SI

Confidence is a big part of being successful in any sport, but especially basketball. If you start to press and force things that you shouldn't or are hesitant to put up a shot, you're going to be in a tough place, which is exactly where Eaglestaff was for much of the season.

He began the season extremely cold and was never really able to snap out of it. He had a few games here and there, most notably those back-to-back performances against Colorado (22 points) and Arizona State (23 points), but it was just a blip on the radar. He failed to reach double digits in 10 of the team's final 11 games of the regular season. During that stretch, he connected on just 32% of his shots from the field and just 26% from downtown.

Confidence, in my opinion, played a big part in his struggles, but also in making the jump up to a higher level of competition and trying to play through the physicality. He struggled to create his own shots and was not much of a threat to get downhill, making him a fairly one-dimensional player.

Despite all of his shortcomings offensively, he defended and rebounded the basketball much better than anyone expected him to, including head coach Ross Hodge.

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