Kansas coach Bill Self landed a transfer big man on Sunday, a pre-emptive recruiting gambit that could bolster the Jayhawks’ frontcourt in the 2016-17 season.
Dwight Coleby, a 6-foot-9 sophomore forward who spent the last two years at Ole Miss, verbally committed to Kansas on Sunday after a weekend visit to campus. Coleby made the news public with a post on his Twitter account on Sunday evening. A native of Nassau, Bahamas, Coleby will sit out the 2015-16 season before having two years of eligibility at Kansas.
He should also be eligible to play this summer in the World University Games, where Kansas will represent the United States in July in Gwanju, South Korea.