LAWRENCE – Kansas basketball officially announced the addition of Northern Illinois transfer David Coit on Monday.
Coit, who will move from the Mid-American Conference to the Big 12 Conference, will be a senior guard for the Jayhawks this season. Listed at 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds, he was a multiple All-MAC honoree. Considering Kansas’ depth has been affected by the injury to second-year guard Elmarko Jackson, Coit’s arrival is important.
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“David can shoot; he has range,” Self said in a KU statement. “He is a player who can score basketball. He averaged 21 points last year at Northern Illinois. I see him as a guy who gives us a totally different dimension that maybe we wouldn’t have had if he hadn’t signed with us.”
Kansas basketball is not only the favorite to win the Big 12 this season, but also to win a national championship. It returns starters like graduate center Hunter Dickinson, graduate guard Dajuan Harris Jr. and senior offensive lineman KJ Adams Jr. (Dakota State) through the transfer portal.
Jayhawks fans will be able to get a look at this team during Late Night in the Phog in mid-October before a home exhibition later that month against Washburn. The regular season opener will be Nov. 4 at home against Howard. Not long after that will be a home game on November 8th against North Carolina.
Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics for The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association Sportswriter of the Year for the state of Kansas in 2022. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.
This article originally appeared in the Topeka Capital-Journal: David Coit: Kansas basketball coach Bill Self praises transfer
