Jordan Riley

Position:
Guard
Height:
6-5
Weight:
210
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Brentwood, N.Y.
High School:
Brentwood
Prev School:
Temple

+ 2x USBWA Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week
+ Lute Olson National Player of the Week
+ 2025-26 American Conference First Team
+ 2025-26 NABC South Atlantic District Second Team
+ 2025 American Conference All-Preseason First Team Selection

2025-26: Led the Pirates and the American Conference in scoring with 23.6 points per game … Second-leading scorer in the country … Named American Conference First Team … Added six rebounds and 1.9 steals per game … Fourth Pirate to reach 1,000 points just at ECU joining Blue Edwards, Oliver Mack and Jayden Gardner … Named to the NABC’s South Atlantic District Second Team … First Pirate to earn three national weekly awards in same season (2x USBWA Oscar Robertson Player of the Week, Lute Olson National Player of the Week) … Two-time American Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 2, Mar. 2) … Set an American Conference single season record with seven games of 30 or more points … First Pirate since Anton Gill in 1994 to score 40 points in a game with his 40 points vs. Wichita State (Feb. 18) … Led all American Conference players with 20 or more points in 20 games this season … Scored in double figures in 40 straight games dating back to last season … Recorded a career-high six steals twice, joining Lester Lyons as the only Pirates to have multiple games with six or more steals … His single-season scoring average of 23.6 in the third highest at ECU, behind Mack and Edwards … Joins Edwards as the only other Pirate to score 700 or more in a season with his 708 points … His 18.9 points per game in his ECU career is also third all-time … Third-most made field goals in a season with 246 and most free throws made in a season at ECU with 183 … Sixth all-time at ECU in career steals with 124 … His dunk against Memphis (Mar. 1) was the No. 2 play on SportsCenter’s Top 10 … HoopsHD’s American Conference Player of the Year and All-Conference Team … American Conference Preseason First Team.

2024-25: Played and started in all 33 games for the Pirates … Averaged a career-high 14.5 points per game and added six rebounds per contest … Led the American through the regular season in steals per game with two … His two steals per game is tied for the fourth-best single-season average in program history … Riley’s 66 steals are the third-most by a Pirate in a single season … Recorded multiple steals in 20 of his 33 games played … Shot 50 percent or better from the floor in 19 games … Recorded a career-high five steals on three different occasions … Scored a career-best 27 points at Tulsa (Jan. 21) … His dunk against Mount Olive was the top play on SportsCenter’s Top 10 … Named AAC Honorable Mention on Dec. 23 and Jan. 27 ... Named to the American All-Academic Team.

2023-24 (at Temple): Appeared in 33 games for the Owls, making 29 starts…Averaged 11.9 points and 6.0 rebounds per game…Second on Temple with 26 blocks…Recorded four double-doubles…Had 21 games with 10 or more points and had four games with 20+…Scored a career-high 23 points at Tulane (Feb. 4)…Pulled in a personal best 12 rebounds as part of his first career double-double against Portland in the Diamond Head Classic (Dec. 24)…Tallied 15 points and 11 rebounds in an overtime win at Wichita State (Feb. 25)…Had back-to-back double-doubles in the AAC tournament with 11 points and 10 boards against Charlotte in the quarterfinals (Mar. 15) and 16 points and 10 rebounds against FAU in the semifinals (Mar. 16).

2022-23 (at Georgetown): Played in 25 games, making nine starts...Averaged 4.6 points and 2.8 rebounds, scoring in double figures four times with highs of 18 points (8-12 FG) and six rebounds at Villanova.

2021-22 (at Georgetown): Averaged 3.2 points and 2.0 rebounds in 12.8 minutes over nine games before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury.

High School/Prep: Earned First Team All-State and was named Mr. New York Basketball and Newsday Player of the Year as a senior in 2020-21 … A two-time all-conference honoree, he averaged 23 points, 12 rebounds and four assists per game while leading his team to the Suffolk Class AA championship as a junior in 2019-20 … In a pandemic-shortened season (2020-21), he averaged 31.7 points, 6.5 assists, 5.5 steals and 3.8 blocks per game in helping Brentwood to a 6-1 record.