WSU adds basketball player

Sat., Sept. 9, 2006

By Glenn Kasses glennk@spokesman.com

PULLMAN – Washington State has undergone a last-minute roster switch, with one current player ruled academically ineligible and first-year head coach Tony Bennett bringing in another new recruit.

Guard Antonio Chavers, a fifth-year senior this season, is ineligible for the first semester and will continue to practice with the team as a walk-on, Bennett said. The Cougars have signed Nikola Koprivica, a 6-foot-7 small forward out of Serbia, who will join the team as a freshman this fall.

“He’s a lefty, a big wing,” Bennett said of Koprivica. “This thing, it happened so late with Antonio. … It’s an opportunity for our program to use the scholarship that wasn’t being used and improve the depth of our roster.”

Koprivica played the second-most minutes for the under-18 Serbian team at the European Championships in July, averaging 8.1 points a game as well. (He turned 18 over the summer.)

Koprivica is already on campus and enrolled in classes.

Also this weekend, WSU is hosting another lefty recruit, Armon Johnson, a shooting guard out of Reno, Nev.

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