OU transfer Bijan Cortes commits to Wichita State basketball following official visit
Oklahoma transfer Bijan Cortes, a 6-foot-3 point guard with two years of eligibility remaining, committed to the Wichita State men’s basketball team at the conclusion of his official visit on Sunday.
Cortes averaged 3.2 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists, while making 48.1% of his three-pointers this past season as a reserve playing 17.1 minutes per game for the Sooners, which finished with a 15-17 record this past season. He averaged 2.0 points, 1.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 11.6 minutes per game as a freshman.
He is a former three-star prospect, according to Rivals and 247 Sports, and the Oklahoma MaxPreps Player of the Year in his senior year at Kingfisher (Okla.) High School. He helped lead his team to state championships in 2019 and 2021, averaging 22.1 points, 5.4 rebounds, 5.8 assists during his senior year at Kingfisher.
Cortes committed to the Sooners when Lon Kruger was the head coach and kept true to his commitment to the Sooners after Kruger retired and Porter Moser took over in Norman. Cortes played back-up guard minutes this past season behind OU star Grant Sherfield, a former Shocker.
There will already be some chemistry between Cortes and another WSU transfer in Texas-San Antonio center Jacob Germany, a Kingston, Okla. native, who played on the same AAU team, Team Griffin, as Cortes. The two also played against each other in the Oklahoma high school ranks.
Cortes is the latest member of the 2023 Wichita State recruiting class for first-year coach Paul Mills, who also recruited Cortes when he was at Oral Roberts and Cortes was a star at Kingfisher. Cortes joins Germany, a 6-foot-11 senior center, and Miami transfer Harlond Beverly, a 6-foot-6 junior wing, in the Shockers’ recruiting class.
With three newcomers paired with returners in Colby Rogers, Xavier Bell, Quincy Ballard, Jalen Ricks and Isaac Abidde, Mills and the WSU coaching staff has five scholarship remaining to fill out the 2023-24 roster.
