Washington State’s basketball program loses a point guard, Ahmed Ali, who leaves program

PULLMAN — Ahmed Ali, a point guard on the Washington State men’s basketball team, has left the program.

Ali, a 5-foot-11, 165-pound guard, transferred to WSU from Eastern Florida State College last season and started 24 of 32 games for the Cougars.

He averaged 7.3 points a game and 1.8 rebounds, and he held one of the top assist-to-turnover ratios in the Pac-12, at 2.4.

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