Basketball season doesn’t start until November but there is already palpable excitement about what new USF men’s coach Bryan Hodgson is building.
The good news around the program has been coming in regularly since Hodgson took the job last month. He scored another recruiting coup when highly sought guard Wes Enis committed to the Bulls.
USF beat West Virginia, N.C. State, and Iowa for the services of this Division II All-American from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn.
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Enis, the son of former Penn State football standout Curtis Enis, played at Miami East High School in Casstown, Ohio.
This season at Lincoln Memorial, the 6-foot-2 sophomore finished 7th nationally in three-point field goal percentage at 47 percent. He averaged 20.6 points per game, 4.4 rebounds, and 3.1 assists.
Earlier this week, former five-star recruit Daimion Collins, a 6-foot-9 power forward from LSU, committed to the Bulls after entering the transfer portal.
USF also picked up guard Xavier Brown from James Madison.
Those three players join Arkansas State transfers Izaiyah Nelson and Joseph Pinion, key players in the Red Wolves’ program-record 25-win season in 2024-25.
Incoming high school players Onyx Nnani, Tristan Beckford, and Adriel Nyorha were linchpins of Hodgson’s Arkansas State recruiting class, ranked 35th in the nation.
They each flipped to USF after Hodgson took the Bulls’ job.
Nnani and Beckford are 4-star forwards, while Nyorha, a 3-star guard, had offers from Arizona State, DePaul, George Mason, and Mississippi State, among other programs.
And that doesn’t even count talking guard CJ Brown into staying at USF after he entered the portal before Hodgson arrived.
The Bulls received interesting news when Memphis guard P.J. Haggerty entered the portal. It’s a huge loss for the Tigers.
Haggerty was the Tigers’ best player this past season and torched USF for a combined 38 points in two games against the Bulls.
He scored 28 points against Hodgson’s Arkansas State team in December, but it wasn’t nearly enough to save Memphis from an 85-72 loss.