Another productive front court player is on the transfer market, as Eastern Illinois announced earlier this week that forward Chris Olivier will be transferring. Olivier, who began his college career at Northern Iowa before playing two seasons at EIU, will be eligible immediately as a graduate student.
Olivier averaged 13.0 points and 5.3 rebounds per game last season, shooting 54.2 percent from the field. Olivier played in 27 games last season, starting ten, and averaged 23.5 minutes per contest.
“We realized that this was a possibility at the beginning of the season, with the ‘fifth- year transfer rule,’” Eastern Illinois head coach Jay Spoonhour said Monday according to the Journal Gazette and Times-Courier.