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Wildcat men's basketball adds seven players

4/16/2020 4:12:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Weber State men's basketball head coach Randy Rahe has announced the addition of seven new players to join the Wildcats for the 2020-21 season. 

The Wildcats have signed Dontay Bassett, Isiah Brown, Darweshi Hunter, Dillon Jones, Balint Mocsan, Zahir Porter, and Seikou Sisoho Jawara. Six of the players have college playing experience and three are graduate transfers. 

"We are excited about this class of recruits," Rahe said. "We identified some areas that we needed to address and I feel like we were able to achieve that. We knew we wanted to get older, improve our 3-point shooting and add a bunch of guys that are just good all around basketball players as well as high quality people that have winning intangibles. We are eager to get this group together, whenever that may be, and get started." 


Dontay Bassett 

Dontay Bassett is a 6-9, 235-pound forward/center who comes to Weber State as a graduate transfer after playing three seasons at the University of Florida. Bassett will have one season of eligibility with the Wildcats. 

Bassett is a native of Oakland, California and appeared in 77 career games for the Gators. He averaged 2.1 points and 1.9 rebounds in his career. He also totaled 33 career blocked shots. 


Isiah Brown

Isiah Brown is another graduate transfer that will have one year of eligibility with the Wildcats. Brown is a 6-2 guard, originally from Seattle, Washington. He played two seasons at Northwestern University, before playing last season at Grand Canyon University.

During the 2019-20 season at Grand Canyon, Brown appeared in all 30 games and started 18 games. He averaged 9.3 points and 1.7 assists per game and was second on the team in 3-pointers with 33. He had a career-high 21 points with five 3-pointers in a win over Illinois State.

In his two seasons at Northwestern, Brown played in 60 games and averaged 5.3 points and 1.2 assists per game and shot 80 percent from the free throw line. 


Darweshi Hunter

Darewshi Hunter is a 6-5 guard from Cincinnati, Ohio who comes to Weber State after playing one season at Division II Central State in Ohio. He will have three seasons of eligibility. 

In his freshman season at Central State, Hunter led the conference in scoring and was second among freshmen in all of Division II basketball at 20.7 points per game. He also averaged 6.1 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.9 steals per game, while shooting 51 percent from the field and 38.5 percent from 3-point range. 


Dillon Jones

Dillon Jones is a 6-6 forward from Columbia, South Carolina. He played at Sunrise Christian Prep Academy in Kansas last season and will be a true freshman with the Wildcats. 

As a junior at Keenan High School in South Carolina, he averaged 12.3 points, 7.9 rebounds and 4.9 assists and led his team to a 3A state title. 

He then attended Sunrise Christian Prep Academy in Bel Aire, Kansas for his senior season and helped lead the team to a 22-3 record.


Balint Mocsan

Balint Mocsan comes to Weber State as a senior graduate transfer from fellow-Big Sky school Idaho State. Mocsan will be a senior in 2020-21 and have one season of eligibility. 

Mocsan is a 6-3 shooting guard from Budapest, Hungary. He played three seasons for the Bengals, appearing in 90 career games and starting in 61 games. He has a career average of 8.9 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. He also is a career 43 percent shooter from 3-point range.  

He sat out the entire 2019-20 season after shoulder surgery. 


Zahir Porter

Zahir Porter is a junior college transfer and will have two seasons of eligibility with the Wildcats. He comes to WSU after playing last season at Independence Community College in Kansas. 

Porter is a 6-6 guard/forward and a native of Bronx, New York. As a sophomore at Independence last season he averaged 10.1 points and 3.0 rebounds per game. As a freshman, he played at the New York Institute of Technology where he averaged 12.2 points and 2.9 rebounds per game and shot 33 percent from the 3-point line.   


Seikou Sisoho Jawara

Seikou Sisoho Jawara joins the Wildcats after transferring from Loyola Marymount University. He played as a freshman with the Lions last season and will have three years of eligibility with the Wildcats. 

Sisoho Jawara, 6-3 guard, is a native of Mataro, Spain. He played in 29 games and started 15 games at Loyola Marymount last season, and averaged 4.4 points and 1.4 assists per game and shot 35 percent from 3-point range.  


The Wildcats are also expected to add at least two more players for the 2020-2021 season.
 
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