GamecockScoop – MBB adds Wofford forward B.J. Mack in transfer portal

Lamont Paris has his fourth addition within the switch portal, and it’s the most important one but.

Wofford star B.J. Mack introduced he might be committing to South Carolina, staying within the Palmetto state after additionally having Arkansas, Alabama, LSU and Iowa listed as his ultimate 5 faculties.

Mack is a 6-foot-8 ahead from Charlotte who averaged 16.8 factors and 5.6 rebounds per sport for the Terriers final season. Throughout 4 seasons with Wofford he began 69 video games and performed in 85, averaging 14.1 factors per sport throughout these. In his junior season he was named a Second Staff All-Southern Convention participant, and he put collectively a fair higher senior season to turn into a First Staff All-Southern Convention participant earlier than coming into his title within the switch portal for his lone remaining yr of eligibility.

Mack helps fill in a South Carolina frontcourt that was typically overmatched final yr, and can be a part of returning 7-foot-0 heart Josh Grey and the 6-foot-8 CItadel switch Stephen Clark to assist in giving Paris some dimension he has desperately wanted.

Along with Mack and Clark, Paris has additionally added two others to his roster. Three-point sharpshooter Myles Stute transferred from Vanderbilt and former Minnesota guard Ta’Lon Cooper can even be becoming a member of this system. That quartet will be a part of incoming freshmen Collin Murray-Boyles and Arden Conyers to make six new gamers on subsequent season’s roster.

The Gamecocks at the moment have 12 scholarship gamers on the 2023-24 roster, one beneath the restrict.

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