MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — Former West Virginia guard Treysen Eaglestaff has found his next home.
Eaglestaff has committed to UC San Diego after recently announcing his plans to leave West Virginia following one season in Morgantown. His departure was certainly an interesting development considering the 6-foot-6 guard started every game for Ross Hodge and was expected to be one of WVU’s more experienced returning players.
West Virginia transfer Treysen Eaglestaff has committed to UC San Diego, his agency @GSLSportsGroup tells @TheFieldof68
Significant get for Clint Allard & the Tritons.
Eaglestaff is currently eligible following the preliminary injunction in Texas.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) August 21, 2026
Now, Eaglestaff will head west and continue a college career that has already featured some pretty impressive moments.
Eaglestaff spent his first three seasons at North Dakota before transferring to West Virginia prior to the 2025-26 season. He arrived in Morgantown with the reputation of being a big-time scorer and one of the better shooters available in the transfer portal.
His final season at North Dakota was easily his best.
During the 2024-25 season, Eaglestaff averaged 18.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game while emerging as one of the top scorers in the Summit League. His ability to shoot the basketball from deep made him particularly dangerous, but his biggest moment came when the lights were brightest.
In the 2025 Summit League Tournament, Eaglestaff exploded for a career-high 51 points in North Dakota’s 85-69 upset of South Dakota State. It wasn’t just a great performance — it was historic. Eaglestaff set a Summit League Tournament scoring record, knocking down eight three-pointers in the victory. At the time, his 51 points were the most scored by a Division I college basketball player in a game in three years.
That season earned Eaglestaff All-Summit League honors and helped turn him into one of the more coveted guards in the transfer portal. He ultimately landed at West Virginia as one of the major additions to Hodge’s first roster in Morgantown.
His production dipped from the huge scoring numbers he put up at North Dakota, but Eaglestaff still played a significant role for the Mountaineers. He started all 35 games for West Virginia during the 2025-26 season and averaged 9.8 points and 4.6 rebounds in 28.5 minutes per game. He connected on 60 three-pointers, which ranked second on the team, while shooting 34.3 percent from beyond the arc.
Eaglestaff also showed flashes of the scorer West Virginia fans expected when he originally arrived. He scored 16 points against Creighton in the Crown and had several other strong performances throughout the season. Although he never became the 18-to-20-point-per-game scorer he was at North Dakota, his size, shooting ability and experience made him an important piece of Hodge’s rotation.
His overall career numbers show just how productive he has been. Through four college seasons between North Dakota and West Virginia, Eaglestaff has appeared in 133 games and owns career averages of 12.8 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. He’s a career 36.5 percent three-point shooter and has made more than 250 shots from beyond the arc.
It’s certainly an unusual ending to his time at West Virginia. Eaglestaff played significant minutes, started every game and was one of the Mountaineers’ better perimeter shooters. But college basketball is a completely different world now, and roster movement has become an almost daily part of the sport.
For West Virginia, his departure opens up another opportunity for Hodge and his staff as they continue reshaping the roster for the 2026-27 season. The Mountaineers have already been aggressive in adding talent, and losing Eaglestaff’s shooting and experience will be something Hodge will have to replace.
For Eaglestaff, UC San Diego gives him another opportunity to potentially become a featured scorer again. We’ve already seen what he can do when an offense is built around his ability to score the basketball.
A 51-point game, All-Summit League honors, nearly 19 points per game in his final season at North Dakota and a full season as a starter in the Big 12 is a pretty impressive résumé.
Treysen Eaglestaff’s stay in Morgantown may have lasted only one season, but he’ll leave West Virginia with plenty of high-level college basketball experience as he begins the next chapter of his career at UC San Diego.
