A USF Fan's guide to every Men's Basketball Commit

Chris Mack will have a clean slate in his first season as head coach of the South Florida Bulls.

The departure of Bryan Hodgson to Providence also meant the departure of USF’s entire 2025-26 roster. Six players graduated, and nine players transferred from last year’s team.

Mack and his staff have had to hit the ground running in the transfer portal and on the high school recruiting trail.

Here are all of the players USF has brought in for the 2026-27 roster.

Guards

Departures: Wes Enis, C.J. Brown, Gavin Hightower, Adriel Nyorha, Joseph Pinion, Devin Haid, Xavier Brown

Sonny Wilson (Toledo)

Wilson has been a high-level contributor in all three seasons with the Rockets. Last season, he averaged 17 points and 4.6 assists per game, helping Toledo earn second-team All-MAC honors during the league’s first multiple-bid NCAA Tournament season since 1999.

Wilson is a true point guard. His 2.9 assist-to-turnover ratio ranked second in the MAC and 34th nationally. He also shot 38% from 3-point range last season.

As a sophomore, Wilson averaged 15.3 points per game and earned third-team All-MAC honors. He was named to the MAC All-Freshman Team in 2023-24 and posted the best assist-to-turnover ratio on the team during his freshman season.

Wilson scored a career-high 29 points Dec. 16 against Michigan State, one of his 10 games with at least 20 points last season. He arrived at Toledo as a three-star prospect and won Michigan Gatorade Player of the Year honors in 2022.

A.J. Dancler (Coastal Carolina)

Dancler has averaged more than 15 points per game in each of the last two seasons at two different schools. Last season with Coastal Carolina, he averaged 15.6 points and 5.5 rebounds per game while scoring in double figures in 24 of the Chanticleers’ 32 games.

Dancler scored more than 30 points three times last season against North Dakota, Louisiana Monroe and Georgia State.

During his sophomore season at Le Moyne, he averaged 15.1 points per game and earned second-team All-NEC honors. Dancler has been a sharp shooter from beyond the arc, shooting 39% from 3-point range last season and 40% during his sophomore year.

Dancler played his high school basketball in Indianapolis, where he set Southport High School’s scoring record.

Andrej Shoshkikj (Stony Brook)

Shoshkikj was a conference opponent for Mack last season at Charleston and earned CAA All-Rookie Team honors after averaging 10.7 points per game during his freshman campaign.

He scored in double figures in 11 of the Seawolves’ final 14 games last season. He shot 49.8% from the field, 45.1% from beyond the arc and 96.4% from the free-throw line. He narrowly missed becoming just the 12th player in NCAA history to record a 50/40/90 season.

Shoshkikj exploded in Stony Brook’s final game of the season, scoring a career-high 35 points against Campbell in the CAA Tournament.

The North Macedonia native played in more than 40 professional games in the country’s top league before coming to the United States. Five players from North Macedonia have played in the NBA: Darius Washington, Pero Antic, Shayne Whittington, Cedi Osman and Jake Wiley.

Mike James (Vanderbilt)

James appeared in 22 games and averaged 1.5 points per game for Vanderbilt last season. He missed the entire 2024-25 season because of a knee injury suffered during preseason practice.

Before arriving in Nashville, James spent three seasons at Louisville and played at a high level. As a sophomore, he started all 32 games and averaged 12.6 points and five rebounds per game. During the 2022-23 season, he averaged 10.1 points per game as a redshirt freshman.

James originally committed to Chris Mack and Louisville as a four-star prospect out of Orlando in 2021. He redshirted during the 2021-22 season, when Mack and Louisville mutually agreed to part ways.

At 24 years old, James is currently the oldest player on USF’s roster.

Chris Davis Jr. (Charleston)

Davis Jr. is the only player to follow Mack from Charleston to USF. He played in 31 games and made eight starts as a freshman last season while averaging 7.6 points per game. He shot 38.8% from 3-point range.

Davis Jr. found his stride late in the season, scoring in double figures in five of Charleston’s final eight games.

A former three-star recruit, Davis Jr. played high school basketball in Wisconsin and finished as the fifth-leading scorer in state history with 2,688 career points.

Donovan Waleskowski (Holy Cross College)

Waleskowski was a standout freshman at the NAIA level. He earned Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year honors after averaging 15 points per game with the Saints.

He scored at least 20 points six times last season and played high school basketball at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati.

Jayden Johnson (Trinity High School, Kentucky)

Johnson is a three-star prospect and is rated as the top player in Kentucky in the 2026 class. He chose USF over Arizona State, Cincinnati, Indiana, Missouri, Texas A&M, West Virginia, Ohio State, USC, Xavier and Michigan.

Johnson scored more than 1,000 career points at Trinity High School in Louisville. He is currently rated as USF’s 12th-highest-rated recruit of all time.

Darren Moore (Northfield Mount Hermon, Massachusetts)

Moore is unrated by 247Sports. This past season, he earned first-team All-NEPSAC honors.

The 6-foot-2 point guard is regarded as a sound decision-maker, creative scorer, high-IQ leader and pesky defender.

Forwards

Departures: Izaiyah Nelson, Damion Collins, Tristan Beckford, Oynx Nnani, Isaiah Jones, De’Ante Green

Joshua Lewis (Louisiana)

Lewis returns to the Tampa Bay area, where he grew up. He played at Blake High School, located just 2.6 miles from USF’s campus.

The four-star prospect originally committed to USF before decommitting and signing with Louisiana following the death of Amir Abdur-Rahim. Lewis appeared in 18 games last season with the Ragin’ Cajuns and averaged 8.1 points per game.

In January, Lewis suffered a torn patellar tendon that sidelined him for the final two months of the season. Recovery timelines for the injury typically range from nine to 12 months, depending on severity.

Zayden High (North Carolina)

High appeared in 29 games and made two starts for North Carolina last season, averaging 3.4 points per game. He averaged 7.5 points over the Tar Heels’ final nine games, including three double-digit scoring performances.

High also played for North Carolina during the 2023-24 season, appearing in 23 games. However, he missed the entire 2024-25 season because of sexual misconduct allegations that resulted in a suspension and departure from the university.

High was a four-star prospect out of Arizona Compass Prep.

Garrett Johnson (George Washington)

Johnson was George Washington’s second-leading scorer last season, averaging 11.4 points per game. He appeared in 29 games and made 11 starts after returning from an ACL injury that caused him to miss the entire 2024-25 season.

As a freshman in 2023-24, Johnson started 23 games and averaged 13.4 points per game before missing the final eight games because of a preexisting hip condition.

In 2021, Johnson was diagnosed with a rare desmoid tumor in his hip. After multiple treatments, the tumor began shrinking in spring 2023, the same year he signed with George Washington and broke out during his freshman season.

Richard Goods (Stony Brook)

Goods appeared in 32 games and started 27 last season for the Seawolves. He averaged 7.7 points and 5.9 rebounds per game.

The 6-foot-9 forward ranked third on the team with 19 blocks and second with 32 steals. Goods scored in double figures 10 times and recorded two double-doubles.

Goods was teammates with Shoshkikj at Stony Brook, making them the only players on the Bulls’ roster with prior experience playing together.

He spent the 2024-25 season at Hampton, appearing in 33 games with 10 starts while averaging 3.3 points per game. Goods was lightly recruited out of Grimsley High School in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Reph Stevenson (DePauw University)

Stevenson has produced consistently during the past three seasons at Division III DePauw. He is a three-time all-conference selection in the North Coast Athletic Conference, earning third-team honors in 2023-24, first-team honors in 2024-25 and second-team honors last season.

Stevenson averaged 14.3 points and 8.7 rebounds per game last season. On Nov. 19 against Greenville University, he scored a career-high 49 points while going 21-for-28 from the field without making a 3-pointer. The performance set a school record for field goals made in a game.

Stevenson already has more than 1,000 career collegiate points and played high school basketball at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Indiana.

Jake Fieldhaus (Madison Central, Kentucky)

Fieldhaus was named Kentucky Mr. Basketball and Kentucky Gatorade Player of the Year this past season. He averaged 20.7 points and 13 rebounds per game while leading Madison Central to a state runner-up finish.

Fieldhaus flipped his commitment from Belmont following Casey Alexander’s departure to Kansas State and Mack’s arrival at USF.

His father, Deron Fieldhaus, played at Kentucky from 1988-92 and was part of “The Unforgettables,” the group of seniors that led the Wildcats to the Elite Eight two years after NCAA sanctions banned the program from postseason play. Deron Fieldhaus’ No. 12 jersey is retired at Rupp Arena.

Centers

Tiefing Diawara (Syracuse)

Diawara, a 7-foot center, is originally from Mopti, Mali. He made four appearances for Syracuse during his freshman season last year.

Diawara played most of his youth basketball in Italy, including four seasons with Orange1 Bassano, one of Europe’s premier youth programs. He moved to the United States in 2024 to play for DME Academy at St. John’s Northwestern in Wisconsin.

Diawara committed to Syracuse as a three-star prospect last season. At 7 feet tall, he is by far the biggest player on USF’s roster, with the next tallest player being Zayden High at 6-foot-10.