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BYU men’s hoops adds Rudi Williams from transfer portal

By Darnell Dickson - | May 8, 2022

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BYU has signed Coastal Carolina guard Rudi Williams from the transfer portal. He will have one year of eligibility in Provo.

The offseason for the BYU men’s basketball team has been mostly about subtraction.

Six players from the 2021-22 roster have entered the transfer portal and an assistant coach, Chris Burgess, has also departed Provo.

Finally, some good news by way of addition: The Cougars have signed 6-foot-2 guard Rudi Williams from the transfer portal. He will have one year of eligibility in Provo.

The much-traveled Williams has had stops at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (a junior college), Kansas State and Coastal Carolina. Last season, Williams started 26 games for Coastal, finishing ninth in Sun Belt in scoring at 14.7 points per game. He shot 51 percent from the field, 45 percent from the 3-point line and 74 percent on free throws.

“I chose BYU because I felt the family environment the minute I got on the campus,” Williams told KSL Radio. “I had a really good relationship with all the staff members, you know, obviously, Coach Pope, he led my recruitment. And, you know, I just fell in love with the opportunity and their sales pitch to me and I just felt like it was the right thing to do, and I went with my heart.”

At Kansas State, Williams appeared in 27 games (with four starts) and averaged 4.8 points per game. In his sophomore season at Northeastern Oklahoma, Williams was a second team All-American and Region II Player of the Year.

Williams said that his recruitment to BYU was “authentic” and was impressed with the film breakdown of his game offered by Pope and his staff.

Williams fills a big need for BYU at guard, where the Cougars lost their top two scorers, Alex Barcello and Te’Jon Lucas, to graduation.

BYU is still busy recruiting in the transfer portal to fill out its 2022-23 roster. High scoring guard Antoine Davis, who averaged 23.9 points per game at Detroit Mercy last season, will make his decision on Monday. He visited Provo last week and is also being pursued by Kansas State, Maryland and Georgetown.

According to Vanquish the Foe, BYU will host a pair of transfer portal big men this week: 6-10 Mo Njie (Eastern Michigan) and 6-8 Josiah Allick (Missouri-Kansas City). Njie was named to the MAC All-Freshman team after averaging 6.6 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, shooting 62 percent from the field. Allick started 16 games for the Roos before a mid-season injury, averaging 12.9 points and 6.1 rebounds per game.

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