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Northern Illinois guard David Coit (11) drives past Iowa guard Tony Perkins (11) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, in Iowa City, Iowa.

Updated 8:35 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9:

During one of the quietest portions of the year for college basketball, Kansas made some noise on Friday.

Former Northern Illinois guard David “Diggy” Coit, a transfer point guard with one year of eligibility remaining, committed to KU, the Journal-World has confirmed.

Coit, who is listed at 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds, was a high-volume scorer in two seasons with the Huskies after one year at Atlantic Cape Community College in his home state of New Jersey. He earned third-team all-MAC honors in both 2022-23 and 2023-24, most recently tallying 20.8 points per game — a top-25 mark nationwide — last season while attempting an average of 17 shots.

Coit added 3.4 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game during the campaign. His scoring prowess took center stage in the later weeks of the season as he averaged 27.7 points across the final six matchups for a team that ultimately finished the year 11-20. In that period, he shot 25-for-76 (32.9%) from beyond the arc.

The addition of Coit comes after two months of relative silence on the transfer-portal front for KU following its addition of guard Shakeel Moore from Mississippi State. Moore was the fifth transfer acquired by the Jayhawks during the offseason after Zeke Mayo (South Dakota State), AJ Storr (Wisconsin), Rylan Griffen (Alabama) and Noah Shelby (Rice). Moore’s agreement to join KU had immediately followed Elmarko Jackson’s season-ending torn patellar tendon.

With KU previously needing to remain one player under a 13-scholarship limit in either 2024-25 or 2025-26 as a result of the last self-imposed penalties from the Independent Accountability Resolution Process, it seemed likely to stay at 12 with four of the transfers on scholarship plus freshmen Flory Bidunga and Rakease Passmore and returnees KJ Adams, Zach Clemence, Hunter Dickinson, Dajuan Harris Jr., Jackson and Jamari McDowell.

In the interim, though, new details of the House v. NCAA antitrust case settlement have altered the situation.

The NCAA will do away with scholarship limits as part of the settlement (once it is formally approved), allowing schools to give scholarships to any number of players up to a sport’s given roster cap. The roster limit for men’s basketball is 15, meaning that each team will effectively get the opportunity to add two more scholarships if it wants to. If the settlement goes into effect for the 2025-26 academic year as expected, it will blunt the effect of KU’s scholarship penalty.

Also in the interim, Coit, who had initially announced he was entering the portal on April 1, received a waiver to ensure he was eligible to play, as CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein reported on July 17.

“We thought we lost my year,” Coit said in a video posted on the Instagram page of the Jersey Shore Basketball League, in which he had been playing, on Thursday.

Coit didn’t announce his destination in the video but said he had committed and discussed some of the reasons for his choice of school, headlined by “transparency and integrity.”

“I wanted to play for a coach that lives off of that as well,” Coit said. “So the school I committed to, they (were) kind of upfront from the get-go about me being able to play my game but also being able to compete.”

He said the school, i.e. KU, had recruited him early, backed off and then returned to him later on.

“It’s a very good team, we’re very good players, so everything is going to have to be earned,” he added in the video. “Definitely the confidence and belief that they had in me to play my game and flourish, it’s something I want to be a part of. I don’t want nothing given.”