It’s not every day that an SEC school gets a transfer from a Division II school, yet here we are.
Jonathan Givony of Draft Express reported on Wednesday morning that Yanni Wetzell, a 6’10”, 235-pound forward for St. Mary’s (TX), a member of the Division II Heartland Conference, will transfer to Vanderbilt. Wetzell will sit out the 2017-18 season as required by NCAA rules and will have two years to play after that.
Wetzell, from Auckland, New Zealand, mostly played tennis as a youngster and only recently took up basketball. But he averaged 15.5 ppg and 6.