Power forward Hogan has left Navy, transferred

Navy power forward Jace Hogan has resigned from the academy and transferred. Hogan would have been the Midshipmen’s second-leading returning scorer behind classmate Shawn Anderson after averaging 9.7 points per game in 2015-16. He was the team’s second-leading rebounder last season with 4.8 per game. “Jace Hogan, after a long spring and summer, did not want to serve,” Navy coach Ed DeChellis said. “We had a lot of back-and-forth with Jace Hogan. He wanted to do it, didn’t want to do it. In the end, he decided he did not want to serve in the Navy.” DeChellis said Hogan has enrolled at Jacksonville, where he was recruited to play basketball and will have two years of eligibility remaining after sitting out this season under NCAA transfer rules. It marks the first time during the five-year tenure of DeChellis that Navy’s had a key returning player decide not to sign the “two-for-seven” papers. All midshipmen at the Naval Academy must sign paperwork