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Oklahoma State forward Patrick Suemnick (24) shoots the ball against Texas Tech forward Federiko Federiko (33) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, in Stillwater, Okla.

Oklahoma State transfer forward Patrick Suemnick recently completed a visit to Kansas, the Journal-World has confirmed.

Suemnick was at KU on Sunday and returned to Oklahoma on Monday, according to his former club coach Dennis Coleman, of One Up Sports Agency. The visit comes as the Jayhawks are in search of a backup big man to occupy minutes behind Flory Bidunga next season, as freshman early enrollee Bryson Tiller works his way back from a long-term ankle injury.

Suemnick has been around the block. The 6-foot-8, 225-pound forward from Green Bay, Wisconsin, will be playing his sixth year of college basketball at his fifth school in total. Most recently, he played periodic minutes each of the last two seasons at Big 12 foes OSU and West Virginia.

With the Cowboys during the 2024-25 season, he played 34 games and averaged 2.9 points and 1.9 rebounds in 11.7 minutes.

Suemnick spent two seasons with WVU after he was a junior-college first-team All-American at Triton College. He has a sixth year of eligibility because of the NCAA’s waiver for former JUCO players, the same one that has allowed KU to sign St. Bonaventure transfer Melvin Council Jr. this offseason, and that allowed former KU guard David Coit to transfer to Maryland.

In his second year with the Mountaineers, under interim coach Josh Eilert following the resignation of Bob Huggins, Suemnick experienced his most productive season with 4.1 points and 2.6 rebounds per game.

Most notably, he played by far the best statistical game of his career against the Jayhawks on Jan. 20, 2024, when he scored 20 points on 8-for-15 shooting and added six rebounds. He scored a go-ahead layup over Hunter Dickinson in the post with two minutes and six seconds remaining as WVU completed the upset, 91-85 over then-No. 3 KU, one of a series of road losses that sent the Jayhawks spiraling that season.

Suemnick was a state champion his senior year of high school at Denmark High School in Denmark, Wisconsin. He then played a postgraduate year at the Bosco Institute in Crown Point, Indiana, before beginning his collegiate career at Robert Morris.

JayhawkSlant also reported the news of Suemnick’s recent visit on Tuesday morning.

Bidunga and Tiller are currently the only true big men on KU’s projected 2025-26 roster, after Bidunga spent about a week in the transfer portal before returning to the Jayhawks, although players like Illinois transfer Tre White and incoming freshman Samis Calderon could be candidates to play some power forward.