Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang has landed his first offseason transfer and with it some instant offense.
Abdi Bashir, a 6-foot-7, 160-pound sharpshooter who averaged 20.1 points for Monmouth, announced Monday via social media that he is joining the Wildcats next season.
Bashir, a sophomore guard from Omaha, Nebraska, gives the Wildcats a big-time 3-point shooting threat on the same day that they lost one to the transfer portal in Brendan Hausen. Bashir shot 38.3% from 3-point range in a breakout season for the Hawks.
After averaging just 13 minutes per game as a freshman reserve, Bashir came into his own as a sophomore, starting 32 of 33 games for the Hawks (10-13) while receiving first-team Coastal Athletic Association honors. He also was an 86.8% free-throw shooter and averaged 2.6 rebounds with 2.2 assists.
While Bashir will make the leap from mid-major Monmouth, he showed he could play excel against power conference competition, scoring a season-best 38 points with 10 3-pointers against Rutgers, 28 against Seton Hall, 20 at Michigan State, and 15 at Auburn. He had five games with 30 or more points.
