WSU basketball begins roster overhaul, bringing in five new players

The complete overhaul of the Washington State men’s basketball roster has officially kicked off this week. David Riley and his staff have so far brought in five new players from the transfer portal this week.

Starting with point guard Lazerek Houston who arrives to the Palouse via Central Missouri, a division II school. Houston, who will be entering his sophomore year, led the Mules in scoring with 20.8 points per game, crossing the 30-point mark seven different times. He also dished out 5.1 assists per game. He was named to the D2CCA Second Team All-American and the NABC All-Central Region First Team. At a listed 6’0, 155 lbs., he’s a bit of a smaller guard, but still hauled in 4.1 rebounds per game and can clearly score at a high volume from all over the floor.

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Up next is Fraser Roxburgh, a 6’7 forward coming from Manhattan but originally from Australia. Roxburgh, entering his junior season, spent the last two years at Manhattan, only appearing in 18 games his freshman year and all 31 games this past season. Roxburgh isn’t the volume scorer Houston is but can still fill up the stat sheet, topping out at 22 points against Saint Peter’s. Where Roxburgh does most of his work is on the glass. He finished as the 390th best player in defensive rebound percentage per KenPom and the 23rd best defensive rebounder in MAAC games. Now that’s not to say he can’t score at all; he finished amongst the top 25 players in the conference in efficient field goal percentage and true shooting percentage.

The third commit is RJ Jones. A former four-star high school recruit, Jones spent his freshman season at Kansas State, appearing in 28 games for the Wildcats in the 2023-24 season. Jones then entered the portal and went to TCU, roughly 40 minutes from his hometown of Denton, Texas. Jones didn’t play during the 2024-25 season and only appeared in nine games for the Horned Frogs this past season. He played 16 and 17 minutes in December against Florida A&M and…

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