Pitt Contacts WVU Transfer Joe Toussaint
PITTSBURGH -- The West Virginia Mountaineers have begun to hemorrhage players to the transfer portal following head coach Bob Huggins' announcement that he would resign following a DUI arrest in Pittsburgh last weekend and the Pitt Panthers will try to swoop in and claim one of those newly available players.
The Panthers contacted veteran guard Joe Toussaint early this weekend, not long after he announced that he would enter the transfer portal, according to a report from college basketball insider Adam Zagoria.
Pitt will face some stiff competition if they hope to land the talented transfer, however. A litany of other high major programs - Gonzaga, Kansas State, DePaul, Seton Hall, Nebraska, Notre Dame, St. John's, Georgetown, Texas Tech, Okahoma and Oklahoma State, among others - have all contacted Toussaint as well in the hours since he decided to transfer.
Toussaint, who transfered to West Virginia from Iowa last season, stepped into a major bench role for the Mountaineers and thrived, averaging career-high averages in minutes (21.7), points (9.4) and rebounds (2.8).
He is not an outstanding shooter but would give the Panthers a strong backcourt defender and steady presence at the guard spot, which is all of a sudden very young after losing Jamarius Burton, Nike Sibande, Nelly Cummings and Greg Elliot to graduation.
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