Kansas Jayhawks basketball lands point guard transfer from university in Canada
Nginyu “Gee” Ngala, a 5-foot-11, 180-pound point guard from Montreal, Canada, will play basketball at Kansas this season, KU athletics announced Friday on its men’s basketball X account.
Ngala, who recently made a campus visit to KU, averaged 14.9 points a game on 40.4% shooting (111-of-275) last season at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He hit 60 of his 153 three-point attempts (39.2%). Also, he made 45 of his 59 free-throw attempts (76.3%) while grabbing 4.6 rebounds per game with 69 assists to 53 turnovers.
“Jayhawk Nation let’s get it!!” Ngala wrote on his own social media site X account Friday afternoon.
One Canadian website lists Ngala’s age as 26. He is a 2024 graduate of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2023-24 he started 16 of the 19 games in which he played, averaging 15.1 points on 40.3% shooting. He hit 31.1% of his 3s. Ngala averaged 4.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists per contest. He hit 88.6% of his free throws.
In 2022-23, he averaged 17.5 points a game while starting 16 of 18 contests. He was 43 of 108 from deep that season (39.8%).
According to the Sudbury Star, last season was Ngala’s “fifth year of post-secondary school (college).” He worked on his MBA last season at Laurentian.
The newspaper’s Ben Leeson described Ngala as a “skilled, savvy point guard.” Leeson said Ngala had “fleet feet and sharp shooting.”
“He’s a really great person and he has had a positive impact on his teammates — and obviously, it shows on the court,” Laurentian coach Brandon Edwards told the Sudbury Star. “But I’m really proud of him, because he’s doing his Masters and he is taking his academics seriously.
“It also speaks to the fact we can land a recruit like that, not only to because he’s going to help on the court, but he’s also someone who chose to come here to complete his Master’s and I think that’s a sign of the change that’s going on. Getting someone of his caliber signals a real positive direction where the program is going.”
KU currently has 13 scholarship players on the roster: freshmen Ngala, Paul Mbiya, Kohl Rosario, Darryn Peterson, Samis Calderon, Bryson Tiller and Corbin Allen; incoming NCAA portal transfers Melvin Council Jr., Jayden Dawson and Tre White and returnees Flory Bidunga, Elmarko Jackson and Jamari McDowell.
KU has one scholarship left to give in recruiting.
Teams are now allowed 15 scholarship players, but KU is limited to 14 this year as a self-imposed NCAA sanction is completed. Freshman scholarship football player Jaden Nickens, who has said he wants to play football and basketball at KU, would count against the limit of 14 if he plays hoops.
He is not currently on the Jayhawks’ basketball roster for 2025-26.
This story was originally published July 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM with the headline "Kansas Jayhawks basketball lands point guard transfer from university in Canada."
