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NIU transfer David Coit commits to Kansas basketball, according to reports

NIU transfer David Coit commits to Kansas basketball, according to reports

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LAWRENCE — The Kansas basketball team added a new team to its 2024-25 roster on Friday, according to multiple reports.

The Jayhawks have picked up a commitment from Northern Illinois transfer David Coit. Coit, who most recently played as a junior guard in the Mid-American Conference, will join a Big 12 Conference team with national championship aspirations. He is the latest addition to a team looking for more depth than last season.

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“Kansas was the best situation for me,” Coit told 247Sports. “Coach (Bill) had faith in me and my ability to come in and make plays and score. He was honest with me from the beginning. He recruited me months before the summer. He was always transparent about what he was looking for and the coaching staff was the same way. It was a great situation for me.”

Kansas returns players like graduate center Hunter Dickinson, graduate guard Dajuan Harris Jr. and senior forward KJ Adams Jr. It added talent via the transfer portal, including junior guard AJ Storr (Wisconsin), junior guard Rylan Griffen (Alabama) and senior guard Zeke Mayo (South Dakota State). In Coit, the Jayhawks return a starter who started all 29 games last season and averaged 20.8 points, 3.4 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game.

Listed by NIU at 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds, Coit will certainly have to compete for playing time. He’ll need to prove he can jump from the mid-range to the high-end. But his ability to turn the ball into points won’t be lost on a team that lacks enough of that type of talent.

“I fit in with the offense knowing that we have a big, great wing and really good guards,” Coit told 247Sports. “They want me to spread the floor, make plays, play on and off the ball and just be a combo guard. I’m going to be tasked with using my ability to score and shoot, and also play and make things easy for the guys around me. That was the emphasis in my recruitment. I’m at my best playing with other great players. I like to score, but I also like to be unselfish and make plays for other guys. That’s what I was looking for and that’s what they gave me.”

Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas athletics for The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the 2022 National Sports Media Association sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas. Reach him at [email protected] or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.