The turnover of the Penn State men’s basketball program continues with upcoming sophomore [autotag]Kebba Njie[/autotag] entering his name into the transfer portal. He is now the fifth player from last year’s team to enter the portal and the third from the 2022 class.
Notably, the 2022 class was Penn State’s highest ever rated recruiting class, with Njie being the center piece. He was a four-star recruit out of Indiana who was Penn State’s third highest player to sign for the program.
Njie was the only freshman from the 2022-23 team who appeared in all 37 games, starting 26 of them. He averaged 3.4 points and 3.5 rebounds in 14.3 minutes of playing time.
There was potential that this announcement was coming. Considering two other players out of his class entered there name into the portal, it’s not a major shock seeing Njie test the waters as well. Onward State also tweeted that he was not present at Mike Rhoades’ introductory press conference, which could have been viewed as a sign as well.
Penn State F Kebba Njie has entered the transfer portal. https://t.co/tctWsSNx6j
— Verbal Commits (@VerbalCommits) April 3, 2023
As with the majority of players entering the transfer portal, there is still a possibility they return to the school they were previously enrolled. [autotag]Seth Lundy[/autotag] once entered the transfer portal before ultimately coming back to play for Penn State again.
There are now only two scholarship players currently enrolled at Penn State. Both are upcoming sophomores [autotag]Kanye Clary[/autotag] and [autotag]Demetrius Lilley[/autotag]. With the three previous class of 2023 commits all asking for their NLI release, the program is barren.
Rhoades will have some serious program building to do to even a field a team next year, let alone a competitive one. We’ll see if he can reconvince some of the players who entered their name in the portal to come back to State College and if he can get some of his past players at VCU to come as well.
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