Charlotte ahead Aly Khalifa (15) shoots in opposition to Arkansas throughout an NCAA school basketball recreation Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Picture/Michael Woods) AP
The BYU Cougars males’s basketball program has seen some attrition this offseason by way of the switch portal, nevertheless it lastly acquired a constructive in that division on Sunday.
Within the night, former Charlotte 49ers large man Aly Khalifa introduced his pledge to the Cougars on social media.
Future cougar #dedicated🔵 pic.twitter.com/WfCcvwqEBI
— Aly Khalifa (@Aly_khalifa15) April 16, 2023
Listed by Charlotte at 6-foot-11 and 230 kilos, Khalifa has a novel basketball background.
He hails from Alexandria, Egypt, and performed on the Egyptian U17 nationwide staff as a young person. He then moved to Australia to go to the NBA International Academy there (there are a selection of such academies all over the world).
After signing with Charlotte, Khalifa redshirted the 2020-21 season earlier than being named the Convention USA Freshman of the 12 months the next 12 months.
Final season, he garnered convention honorable point out recognition after averaging 11.7 factors, 6.3 rebounds and a couple of.7 assists per recreation because the 49ers received the CBI postseason match.
Khalifa, who has grow to be generally known as the “Egyptian Magician” due to his playmaking capacity, introduced on March 28 that he could be getting into the switch portal.
Khalifa will be part of a BYU frontcourt that's anticipated to incorporate Fousseyni Traore, Atiki Ally Atiki and Noah Waterman subsequent season because the Cougars transition to the Massive 12 Convention.
Whereas Khalifa has not but formally signed with BYU, on Saturday the Cougars girls’s basketball program introduced that it has signed a countrywoman of Khalifa’s, ahead Jana Sallman.