Washington State guard Joseph Yesufu re-enters the transfer portal
Joseph Yesufu has reentered the transfer portal after one season at Washington State.
Yesufu spent this past year with the Cougars after two seasons at Kansas and two more at Drake.
Yesufu played and started in Wazzu’s first six games and averaged 6.2 points, two rebounds, 1.8 assists, and a steal in 25 minutes a game. He shot 36.8% from the field and 34.8% from three in those few appearances. However, his year came ended early end after a hip injury made him miss several games before a permanent absence.
The Cougars still made the NCAA Tournament without him, though, with a 25-10 finish after a win over Drake, Yesufu’s first collegiate team, in the Round of 64 and a loss to Iowa State in the Round of 32.
In 119 career games, Yesufu has averaged 5.9 points, 1.3 rebounds, and 1.1 assists in just under 14 minutes with the Bulldogs, Jayhawks, and Cougars. His best year was his sophomore season in Des Moines where he put up 12.8 points on career-best percentages. He then went to Lawrence and posted 3.1 points in 11 minutes per game over 69 appearances in two years. That included ’21-’22 when Kansas won the national title.
Yesufu is a native of Bolingbrook, Illinois and was a member of the 2019 class.
Since the end of the season, Stanford hired Kyle Smith, Washington State’s head coach for the past five years, for their open position. That has since led to an exodus from their program as Yesufu is now the sixth transfer from the Cougars to enter the portal. Myles Rice, Andrej Jakimovski, Rueben Chinyelu, Kymany Houinsou, and Dylan Darling have also all decided to leave Pullman to this point.
With no hire yet for their next head coach, Washingto State has not made any transfer additions.
To keep up with the latest players on the move, check out On3’s Transfer Portal wire.
More on Rice entering the transfer portal
Washington State guard Myles Rice plans to enter the transfer portal, he told On3. The news comes just days after Kyle Smith announced he would be leaving Pullman and accepting the open Stanford job.
Rice, the team’s second-leading scorer, averaged 14.8 points this season, to go along with 3.1 rebounds and 3.8 assists. Despite being a freshman, this is actually Rice’s third year of college. The Columbia, South Carolina native enrolled at WSU in 2021, deciding the redshirt. The following season, Rice was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and missed the entire year.
In his first year playing college basketball, Rice earned All-Pac-12 honors, Pac-12 All-Freshman team, and Pac-12 Rookie of the Year.