Now at Maryland, former KU guard Rakease Passmore suffers season-ending injury
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- Maryland guard Rakease Passmore will miss the 2025-26 season due to injury.
- Passmore transferred from Kansas after limited play during the 2024-25 season.
- Terps coach Buzz Williams added 10 transfers, including KU’s Passmore and Coit.
Maryland sophomore guard Rakease Passmore, who started his college basketball career at Kansas last season, will miss the 2025-26 campaign because of a torn Achilles tendon, the Terps announced Tuesday on social media.
Passmore, a 6-foot-5, 185-pound native of Palatka, Florida, transferred to Maryland this past offseason after playing sparingly in 23 games for the Jayhawks in 2024-25.
He hit 6 of 21 shots (28.6%) for the season, connecting on 2 of 9 3-pointers. Former KU guard Diggy Coit also transferred to Maryland last offseason. The former Jayhawks are two of 10 total transfers who joined Maryland from the portal to play for first-year Terps coach Buzz Williams.
Passmore is a graduate of Combine Academy in Lincoln County, North Carolina, where he emerged as the country’s No. 34-rated prospect in the recruiting class of 2024 according to ESPN.
He averaged 19.2 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.5 steals per game his senior season in 2023-24.
Known for his athleticism, Passmore has a reported 46-inch vertical jump.
“Loaded with bounce, Passmore will have to wait a year to unleash his first in-game dunk at Xfinity Center,” wrote Jeff Ermann of 247Sports. “He told Hartlove (Brendan of Hear the Turtle podcast) he models his game after NBA wings like Bennedict Mathurin and Lu Dort, players who can impact games on both ends with their athleticism and toughness.”
This story was originally published September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM with the headline "Now at Maryland, former KU guard Rakease Passmore suffers season-ending injury."
