Chris Beard’s top assistant coach, Mark Adams, is something of a legend in the JUCO ranks. He’s also the mastermind of the Texas Tech basketball team’s dominant defensive scheme. Thus, he has to be overjoyed on both accounts because Saturday, Tech landed a commitment from one of the top JUCO players still available in the 2020 class, Esahia Nywie.
A 6-foot-10 pogo stick from Clarendon College, the native of Sudan, Africa made his decision known on Twitter just weeks after picking up an offer from Beard’s program. The news also came on the same day that Purdue graduate transfer big man Matt Haarms included Tech in his top 10 potential destinations and one has to wonder if that development prompted Nywie to jump on the Red Raider’s offer while there is still a spot available for a big man on next year’s team.