Darren Buchanan Jr.
Only corroborated player-season records; not complete career coverage.
Observed career performance
2372:24 minutes logged
- Games logged
- 87
- Minutes per game
- 27:16
- Points per game
- 11.1
- Rebounds / assists per game
- 5.3 / 1.9
| Basis | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | PF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per game | 11.1 | 5.3 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| Per 40 minutes | 16.2 | 7.8 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| Season totals | 962 | 461 | 169 | 78 | 29 | 155 | 153 |
| Shot | Made–att. | Pct | Att/G | Att/40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FG | 341–700 | 48.7% | 8.0 | 11.8 |
| 2P | 316–608 | 52.0% | 7.0 | 10.3 |
| 3P | 25–92 | 27.2% | 1.1 | 1.6 |
| FT | 255–400 | 63.7% | 4.6 | 6.7 |
| eFG% | Estimated TS% | 3PA / FGA | FTA / FGA | AST / TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50.5% | 54.9% | 13.1% | 57.1% | 1.09 |
Combined corroborated seasons only; not complete career coverage. † marks a rate on fewer attempts than the floor (field goal 100, three-point 50, free throw 25). Floors are descriptive, not model output. Definitions
Linked seasons
| Season | Team | G | MPG | Pts | Reb | Ast | Pts/40 | 3P% | FT% | TS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Darren Buchanan Jr. | G Washington | 24 | 30:41 | 16.3 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 21.3 | 25.0%† | 63.4% | 59.5% |
| 2025 Darren Buchanan Jr. | G Washington | 29 | 28:19 | 10.1 | 5.8 | 2.0 | 14.3 | 20.6%† | 67.6% | 52.5% |
| 2026 Darren Buchanan Jr. | Rutgers | 34 | 23:58 | 8.1 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 13.6 | 35.3%† | 59.0% | 51.7% |
Career identity corroborated by repeated game, team and individual-statistic matches. Unlinked seasons are excluded.
Speculative compensation · 2025–26β
Rutgers · Power 4 · 2025–26 · a best guess at this player's part of the school's own revenue-sharing budget for men's basketball.
- Speculative best guess
- $250K
- 80% range $24K to $485K
- Median share of team pool
- 7.7%
- team pool $3.55M, 80% range $2.55M to $5.00M
- Across scenarios Z1 to Z4
- $250K in all four
- the elasticity disagreement is carried, not resolved
- Floor part
- $26K
- shared by every player with possessions
- Possession share
- 59.2%
- Sufficient evidence
- Range driven by assumption, not data
Speculative best guess, not observed pay. It is not a contract, not an offer and not a market price, and it is unvalidated: no pay is held to check it against. Point is the median and the range is the 10th to 90th percentile of 4,000 joint draws of budget and player value; a mixture of assumptions, not a calibrated interval.
Budget anchor. House-settlement $20.5M cap (College Sports Commission, 2026-10-01) times a modelled utilisation of about 97 percent times a men's basketball share of about 18 percent (school statements and an industry study); Power 4 schools are at or near the cap nationally.
Assumptions. modelled pool; split by possession share times value over replacement; convexity; shared floor; replacement level; four elasticity scenarios; closure to the national total; opt-out list; exclusions. Each is a declared judgement, not an estimate. Numbers, anchors and checks
Not included. Third-party and collective NIL deals, including deals cleared through NIL Go. Non-cash benefits such as scholarship, cost of attendance, Alston awards and housing. Bonuses and incentive terms. Anything outside the school's own revenue-sharing channel.
Rutgers: whole-roster table and pool · School finances (school-reported) · What-if calculator for this player
No revenue-sharing budget existed before the 2025–26 season, so no compensation figure is modelled for earlier seasons.
Model-implied value and speculative compensation by seasonβ
| Season | Team | Speculative compensation (best guess) | Compensation 80% range | Split role | Net | Range | Evidence | Range graphic. Position on one axis | Offense | Defense | Wins above replacement | On-court possessions | Sample and flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Rutgers | $250Kspeculative | $24K to $485K | descriptive: not used in fit or gates | -1.0 | -2.4 to +0.3 | Sufficient evidence | +0.3 | -1.3 | +2.8range +2.3 to +3.2 | 2,717 | Season detail | |
| 2025 | G Washington | None: no budget that season | — | evaluation: examined, post hoc | +0.3 | -0.7 to +1.4 | Sufficient evidence | +0.1 | +0.2 | +3.3range +2.8 to +3.9 | 2,680 | Season detail | |
| 2024 | G Washington | None: no budget that season | — | evaluation: examined, post hoc | +1.2 | -0.3 to +2.5 | Sufficient evidence | -0.1 | +1.3 | +3.0range +2.4 to +3.6 | 2,659 | Season detail |
Open circle: limited evidence. Filled circle: sufficient evidence. Vertical line: zero. This table makes no claim about change over time, so it has no change column or trend. Seasons 2011 to 2017 have a point value but no range, so none is shown. Compensation exists for 2025–26 only; earlier rows say that no budget existed. NIL methodology · Compensation methodology