Wichita State basketball lands a sharpshooter in Siena transfer recruit Colby Rogers
For four straight seasons, the Wichita State men’s basketball team has not shot better than the nationwide average on three-point shots, a trend head coach Isaac Brown wants to change.
Help is on the way after Wichita State beat California and Temple for Siena transfer Colby Rogers, who announced his commitment to the Shockers on his social media Monday. Rogers was scheduled for an official visit to Temple this week, but decided to pledge to WSU one day after leaving Wichita on his official visit.
Rogers, a 6-foot-4 sharpshooter with two years of eligibility remaining, averaged 14.1 points and made 2.6 threes per game on 42.9% accuracy for a Siena team that finished third in its conference. That kind of volume and accuracy would be welcomed by WSU, but there is a question whether he can immediately help the Shockers.
Because Rogers transferred from Cal Poly, where he spent the first two years of his career, to Siena last offseason, he has already used his first-time free transfer pass. But according to sources within the program, WSU is confident Rogers will have a waiver approved by the NCAA in time to play immediately in the 2022-23 season.
Rogers, a Covington, Georgia native, was efficient for Siena on catch-and-shoot three-pointers, scoring 1.42 points per possession and ranking in the 97th percentile nationally, per Synergy. That lethal jumper also makes him a weapon in the pick-and-roll game, which he occasionally showed at Siena. He scored 1.33 points per possession and made 53.8% of his dribble jumpers coming off a screen, per Synergy, which seems like a natural fit to the pick-and-roll offense under Brown at WSU.
The busy offseason for WSU continues, as Brown has steadily filled his team’s roster and is now nearing completion with his 2022 recruiting class.
Rogers is the sixth player Brown has nabbed from the NCAA transfer portal, joining senior big man James Rojas (Alabama), senior forward Gus Okafor (Southeastern Louisiana), sophomore guard Jaron Pierre Jr. (Southern Miss), sophomore guard Xavier Bell (Drexel) and sophomore center Quincy Ballard (Florida State).
The lone high school signee is guard Jacob Wilson, as WSU has up to two scholarships left to use.
This story was originally published May 2, 2022 at 5:36 PM.
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