BATON ROUGE – LSU Basketball added its first national letter-of-intent signee on Wednesday when the papers of four-star forward Mwani Wilkinson were received and approved by the LSU Athletics Department.
Wilkinson is a 6-6 forward from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was ranked No. 86 by ESPN in the ESPN 100 for the Class of 2020 and the No. 19 small forward in the country according to 247sports.com.
He averaged 19 points, 10 rebounds, four blocks, two assists and two steals as a senior.
"We are excited to have Mwani Wilkinson join us from Las Vegas as he returns to his Louisiana roots as part of our LSU Basketball program," said LSU Coach Will Wade.