Weber State basketball adds transfers from Saint Louis, New Mexico State
Warlick, Ekwe give WSU 5 transfer commits in 1 week
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- Left: Saint Louis player Dylan Warlick handles the ball Jan. 28, 2025, in Saint Louis. Right: New Mexico State center Augustine Ekwe (44) shoots on Dec. 21, 2025, in Las Cruces, N.M.
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- Saint Louis player Dylan Warlick, left, handles the basketball against a VCU defender on Jan. 28, 2025, in Saint Louis.
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- New Mexico State center Augustine Ekwe (44) rises to shoot against Sam Houston State on Dec. 21, 2025, in Las Cruces, N.M.
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- Dylan Warlick
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- Augustine Ekwe
While Weber State men’s basketball continued its parade of recruiting visits this week, two more players committed to play for head coach Kaleb Canales next season.
Saint Louis wing/forward Dylan Warlick and New Mexico State center Augustine Ekwe are the latest additions, both announcing their commitments Friday on social media. Each has three seasons left to play under the current eligibility format.
That gives Canales five public commitments from Division I transfers, all in a period of six days. Those two join Rice point guard Aaron Powell, New Mexico shooting guard Sir Marius Jones, and UNLV wing Mason Abittan as new pledges.
WSU has 10 outgoing players following the 2025-26 season, with nine transfers and one senior.
Warlick is a 6-foot-5 sophomore and Oklahoma native who played in 25 games for Saint Louis in the 2024-25 season, averaging 2.4 points and 1.6 rebounds in a reserve role. He left the team for what was reported as personal reasons before the most recent season.
Warlick continues the trend from the previous three commitments in that he was a 20-point-per-game scorer in high school who has three or more years of eligibility remaining. At Edmond North, Warlick helped lead his team to two state championships and one runner-up season; the Huskies went 65-10 in those three seasons.
Former WSU star and Big Sky MVP Kellen McCoy, an Oklahoma native now coaching in the state, told the Standard-Examiner he coached Warlick for two seasons of summer ball and against him in high school, adding that he’s a good finisher and has great hands and footwork in the paint.
Warlick averaged 20 points and 11 rebounds per game as a senior. He was a three-star recruit who committed to Wyoming before a coaching change, and visited South Alabama and Loyola-Chicago.
Ekwe is the first big man being added to WSU’s roster next season. Listed at 6-foot-9, he played 10.6 minutes in 23 games as a freshman at New Mexico State behind fifth-year senior and Idaho transfer Julius Mims. A native of Nigeria, Ekwe prepped at independent Wasatch Academy in central Utah. He held offers from NMSU and Tarleton State.
Ekwe stands to join junior Declan Cutler and sophomore Bourgeois Tshilobo as centers next season.
Of WSU’s nine outgoing transfers, two currently have committed to new destinations: senior-to-be Malek Gomma is headed to Utah, and redshirted freshman Anthony Moore is pledged to Cal Poly.
Below are WSU’s currently committed returners and transfers.
Juniors: Declan Cutler
Sophomores: Augustine Ekwe, ArDarius Grayson, Bourgeois Tshilobo, Dylan Warlick
Freshmen: Mason Abittan, Sir Marius Jones
WSU WOMEN ADD GUARD
Weber State women’s basketball got its third transfer addition Friday with Grand Canyon freshman Sidney Anderson announcing her commitment on social media.
An Arizona native, the 5-foot-9 guard redshirted this past season. She averaged 15.5 points, 4.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 2.7 steals per game over four years at Salpointe Catholic High School.
Anderson joins two incoming Montana transfers, both to be juniors, on Jenteal Jackson’s next squad in 5-foot-8 Draya Wacker and 6-foot-1 guard/wing Adria Lincoln.
Wacker averaged 4.9 points and 3.2 rebounds in 18.6 minutes per game off the bench as a sophomore. Lincoln appeared sparingly in 11 games.
WSU is replacing at least six players with the senior graduations of Lanae Billy and Antoniette Emma-Nnopu, and outgoing transfers of Makenna Shaffer-Lauer, Fui Niumeitolu, Maya Davis and Vanna Quintana.
