Jerome Tang signals promising start to big recruiting week for Kansas State Wildcats
It’s easy to tell when Kansas State men’s basketball coach Jerome Tang has landed a new recruit.
When Cam Carter and Jerrell Colbert informed Tang that they were ready to transfer and play for the Wildcats next season, Tang decided to celebrate on Twitter. Shortly after receiving good news from each of those players, K-State’s new coach posted on social media an animated graphic of himself screaming the words “It’s a great day to be a Wildcat!”
Tang kept that tradition going late Thursday night when he presumably picked up his third commitment from a recruit since leaving his post as Baylor associate head coach for K-State last month.
So who committed to K-State?
It’s a safe bet that Dorian Finister will soon be added to the K-State men’s basketball roster. Though he hasn’t announced anything publicly yet, the 6-foot-5 guard from New Orleans was the only prospect on campus for a recruiting visit at the time of Tang’s celebratory Twitter post.
Things appear to have gone well while he was checking out everything that K-State has to offer.
Tang is not allowed to discuss any recruit in a public setting until he has signed scholarship players with the school.
K-State would welcome Finister to its 2022 recruiting class, if he officially signs with the Wildcats in the coming days. Finister is a three-star recruit who held scholarship offers 12 other schools, including Houston and Texas A&M.
It seems as though Tang is off to a promising start for an important week of recruiting for the Wildcats.
K-State is also scheduled to host four-star forward Shawn Phillips and junior-college transfer Nae’qwan Tomlin this weekend.
The Wildcats are also waiting to hear a decision from Detroit transfer Antoine Davis. The high-scoring guard lists K-State in his final five along with BYU, Georgetown, Maryland and Detroit.
Tang lost nine scholarship players to the NCAA transfer portal after he arrived in Manhattan. With only Markquis Nowell and Ismael Massoud returning, he currently has eight open scholarships to use as he works to reshape the K-State roster in his own image.
That number may soon drop to seven, if Tang’s latest tweet indeed signals the arrival of another new basketball pledge.
This story was originally published April 29, 2022 at 1:46 PM with the headline "Jerome Tang signals promising start to big recruiting week for Kansas State Wildcats."