Nebraska Men’s Basketball Coach Fred Hoiberg announced that Yvan Ouedraogo has signed a National Letter-of-Intent to play basketball for the Husker basketball program next season.
Ouedraogo, a 6-foot-9, 260-pound forward from Bordeaux, France, attends the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP) and selected Nebraska over TCU, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt.
This past season, Ouedraogo played in 26 games for Centre Fédéral de Basketball, which is a program in the top amateur league in France. Despite turning 17 in March, he averaged 5.4 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.
Other prominent players to come from the INSEP program include Clint Capela, Boris Diaw and Tony Parker. Ouedraogo will be the first Husker basketball player from France in program history.
