Oklahoma State Lands Kansas Transfer Bryce Thompson

STILLWATER – It’s a big day for Oklahoma State basketball as former five-star Booker T. Washington guard and KU transfer, Bryce Thompson, announced his commitment to the Cowboys.

Thompson is the third commit of the 2021 class for Boynton and Co., all of which are D1 transfers. He joins Syracuse transfer forward Woody Newton and fellow Big 12 player Tyreek Smith, a transfer forward out of Texas Tech.

Thompson, who appeared in just 20 games last season for the Jayhawks, entered the transfer portal on April 13 following his freshman season which was plagued with injuries. He suffered a back injury early in the season, then broke his finger in the game against Oklahoma State in Stillwater, which happened to be his first game back from his back injury.

In those 20 games, which included four starts, Thompson averaged 4.6 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 17.1 minutes per game.

Mike Boynton and Co. were among the final four schools to land the Booker T. Thompson standout, along with Kansas, North Carolina and Oklahoma. It’s no secret Boynton pursued Thompson about as hard as any prospect he’s gone after since taking over the program in 2017, which includes going to see Thompson at midnight as soon as the fall recruiting period opened in 2019.

While he didn’t have the greatest of freshman seasons, Thompson brings a lot of talent to Stillwater. The highest rated prospect out of Oklahoma in the past 10 years, Thompson averaged 24.6 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists a game his senior season, as well as 19.6 points, 5.2 assists and 4.5 rebounds a game and a 6A state championship his junior season. He was named the Gatorade Oklahoma Boys Player of the Year following both of those seasons.

This is a huge pick up for Boynton and Co. as Thompson will go a long way in helping replace the production lost with the departure of star freshman Cade Cunningham. Assuming he stays healthy, Thompson brings great depth and scoring to the guard position and should be a solid one-two punch alongside Avery Anderson.