The first part of Kyle Smith’s 2020 class took shape this week when TJ Bamba and Efe Abogidi made their commitments to the Washington State Cougars official by sending in their letters of intent during the early signing period, the school announced on Monday.
Abogidi, who is originally from Nigeria, fills the most pressing need for the Cougs: At 6-foot-9 and with a reported wingspan of 7-foot-4, he’s an exciting, athletic prospect and currently only one of two big men on the roster for 2020-21. (2019 signee Volodymyr Markovetskyy is the other.) Abogidi produced a viral dunk video when he was 15 years old .