Providence Friars basketball recruits 6-6 Chicago State guard. Who is that?
Wesley Cardet Jr. only a single visit to decide on his next college basketball destination.
Providence received a commitment from the Chicago State wing Sunday evening. Cardet made the news during a live stream with The Field of 68.
Cardet is head coach Kim English and the Friars’ fourth transfer commitment since the portal opened in mid-March. The 6-foot-6-inch perimeter player joins Miami guard Bensley Joseph, Saint Joseph’s big man Christ Essandoko, and Georgia wing Jabri Abdur-Rahim in committing to Providence for the 2024-25 season. Cardet and Abdur-Rahim were on campus this weekend and were seen eating at a fancy downtown restaurant late Saturday.
“I feel like we shared a vision for how he sees me in the future,” Cardet said. “I’m going to rock with Coach English. He showed me everything I needed to see.
“He showed me he’s going to push me to be the best player I can be, and that’s all I needed.”
Cardet averaged double-digit points in each of his two seasons with the Cougars, including 18.7 per game in 2023-24. He also had 4.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists for Chicago State, which played an independent schedule due to a lack of conference affiliation. Cardet and his teammates were invited to compete in the postseason College Basketball Invitational, where he scored 55 points in two games against UC-San Diego and Fairfield.
“We don’t get as many resources as some of these other colleges are getting,” Cardet said. “During that process as a team, you’ve really got to ignore all of that and just stick together.”
The Cougars stunned city rival Northwestern and beat a Stetson team that eventually won its conference tournament to reach March Madness. Cardet hit for 30 points against the Wildcats, who had cracked the national polls by the time that game tipped in mid-December. It was one of 12 times Cardet collected at least 20 points against Division I foes last season.
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