Roderick Espresso III is taking his skills to Grambling State to play for former FAMU basketball coach Patrick Crarey II, he introduced Monday on social media.
The 6-foot-4 guard performed in 21 video games final season for the Rattlers, averaging 6.0 factors whereas taking pictures 39.3% from the sector, 3.4 assists, 3.9 rebounds in 24.4 minutes per contest. In his two-year FAMU tenure, Espresso performed in 58 video games whereas registering 5.1 factors, 3.2 rebounds, 3.0 assists whereas taking pictures 80.4% from the free throw line and 35.6% from the sector in practically 23 minutes per recreation.
“Let’s rock,” Espresso wrote on X, previously often called Twitter, on Monday.
Espresso commits to GSU three days after this system launched Crarey because the Tigers subsequent males’s basketball coach. In a single season at FAMU, Crarey led the Rattlers to their most wins since 2008 and its first SWAC Match berth since 2019. Jackson State eradicated FAMU 91-76 within the quarterfinals of the event in March.
Crarey replaces former GSU coach Donte Jackson, who departed this system to change into the brand new males’s basketball coach at Alabama A&M. At Grambling, Jackson led the Tigers to 3 SWAC regular-season titles in eight seasons and a visit to the 2024 males’s NCAA Match.
