Jeff Capel got his third commitment from a player in the Transfer Portal Thursday when forward Fede Federiko announced his commitment to join Pitt basketball on Twitter and Instagram.
Federiko is a 6-foot-11, 220 lbs. forward who's taken an unconventional road to become an ACC basketball player. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Federiko played basketball in Finland before moving to the United States to play high school basketball at First Love Christian Academy in Washington, Pa. After there, Federiko played his freshman year of college basketball at Northern Oklahoma, a junior college.
There, he became a powerful paint presence by averaging 11.