Will Wade Update: Not Going All That Well In Baton Rouge?
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA - MARCH 30: New head coach Will Wade of the LSU Tigers Men's Basketball team walking into his press conference in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on March 30, 2026 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Reagan Cotten/LSU Athletics via Getty Images) Since his NC State team was knocked out of the tournament by Sean Miller’s Texas, Will Wade’s life has been pretty active. After telling State fans, and apparently A.
D. Boo Corrigan, that he wasn’t talking to LSU, he took the job anyway. However, he has had some trouble filling out his roster.
For a time, he had just one player, Kentucky transfer Mouhamed Dioubate. He’s picked up guards Austin Nunez and Divine Ugochukwu, Brazilian big man Marcio Santos, and Abdi Bashir from Kansas State. He also picked up French big Brice Dessert, who UNC was apparently after, and if Allen Graves pulls out of the draft, there’s a strong chance he’ll play at LSU.
So the frontcourt could be pretty solid, but the backcourt is questionable. So Wade does what he always does under pressure: he looks for an easy way out. And over the last two days, Wade has signed a 25-year-old Israeli, Yam Madar , and former St.
John’s star RJ Luis . Luis left St. John’s to try his hand with the NBA, but obviously, he wasn’t ready, and the NCAA has made it clear that guys who sign contracts, even two-ways, can’t come back.