Jared Billups is George Mason’s defensive tone-setter and glue-guy guard
In the 2024-25 season, Jared Billups was the Patriots’ defensive heartbeat: George Mason named him the 2025 Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year, a Lefty Driesell Award finalist, and part of the engine behind the program’s best A-10 season in school history. He’s a 6-foot-4 guard who brings physicality, rebounding, on-ball pressure, and a junkyard-dog edge that coaches love. The catch? His value is more about winning possessions than filling a box score, so he fits best with teams that prize defense, toughness, and high-IQ role players.
