Wesley Johnson Is Interested In Cuse! Wait...Who Is Wesley Johnson?

It was unclear at first why Johnson, who averaged 12.4 points per game last season despite missing five games with a stress fracture, wanted out. A Big Ten All-Freshmen team player the year before and the team's 2nd leading scorer, Johnson may developed a rift with the coaches that was no longer fixable. According to the Des Moines Register, it was "an eroding relationship with McDermott" as the reason behind his decision to leave.

ISU has granted him a limited transfer release, with the conditions that he not go to a school on a future ISU schedule nor any Big 12 school. Johnson submitted a list of schools that met the criteria and there's one in particular on it you may be interested in:

Arkansas, Connecticut, Marquette, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Villanova and West Virginia.

According to Des Moines Register, various schools on and off that list had already contacted ISU about talking to Johnson, including Arkansas, Cincinnati, Marquette, Virginia Tech and West Virginia. No word from Syracuse just yet on their reciprocal interest.

This may have been the cruelest of them all. Here was a kid who came out of nowhere who suddenly was dominating at every position he played. He was an athletic freak who could out jump the big guys and out shoot the guards. The type of player who could be the difference maker or the spark to reignite a program. It was just a week ago that I looked at who was coming back in the rest of the Big 12. Despite all of my built-in defense mechanisms I actually began to think that maybe we could actually get into the top half of the conference with a few breaks. "If Wes could stay healthy, if Lucca is as good as people say, if Brackins develops...if, if if."