Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanCBS 8m
Rawane "Papi" Ndiaye of Indian Hills has committed to Tennessee, per his former high school coach Pat Washington. 6-11 big man.
Here's the deal, if it plays out like it sounds I get it. Stokes and McRae return, Yemu is transferring and Landry isn't coming in. Next years team would have ONE center and that's Jarnell Stokes who doesn't even want to play center. If Stokes gets in foul trouble who is playing the 5, or even to spell stokes? Maymon is 6'6", Reese would be the next tallest at 6'9", but we all know he's not a center. So...the staff HAD to add a big, and one that preferably could play right away and has the size to give SEC bigs some problems. Issue is, there aren't any decent high school bigs left out there, there were some JUCO bigs, but I don't know, maybe the staff liked what they saw.
This isn't a case where we are adding projects to a roster, you are (if it played out like it appears) trading Yemi for this guy basically....he's 6'11"-7' something we definitely don't have on our roster. I'm not thrilled about it, but I also realize that we desperately need size if Yemi is leaving...and if Yemi told the staff he was leaving and the staff thought Stokes may go...I'd say they were probably desperate.