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ABILENE - A pair of ACU men's basketball players who completed their eligibility last season and graduated from the program in recent months have both signed contracts to play professionally overseas.
Forward Austin Cooke and center Duran Porter will both be playing in German professional leagues with Cooke playing for TSV 1861 Nordlingen, while Porter will suit up for the Conlog Baskets who play in the ancient German city of Koblenz. Cooke's team, the Giants, is based in Nordlingen, a city that is more than 1,100 years old.
"We're extremely proud of Austin and Duran and what they meant to our program," ACU head coach Joe Golding said, "and we're excited that both of them are going to have the chance to play professionally. Those two guys, along with Jalen Little and Parker Wentz, helped lay the foundation for what we think is going to be an exciting future for ACU basketball."
A native of Scottsdale, Ariz., Cooke joined the Wildcats just before the program's first season at the NCAA Division I level (2013-14), and he was a consistent performer in his three seasons as a Wildcat. One of the top 3-point shooters in program history, Cooke finished seventh in ACU history in 3-point field goal percentage at 39.6, and eighth in both career 3-pointers made and attempted. He's averaged 7.9 points and 5.1 rebounds in 92 career games, 81 of those coming in starting roles. He graduated from ACU in May with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
A native of Macon, Ga., Porter was a two-year letterman who joined the Wildcats prior to the 2014-15 season from Tallahassee Junior College. He was one of the top centers in the Southland Conference in 2015-16, averaging a career-best 8.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest. He racked up 13 double-digit scoring games as a senior in 2015-16, including the first two double-doubles of his career. In two seasons with the Wildcats, he hit 54 percent of his shots from the field. Porter graduated from ACU this summer with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Wentz graduated ACU in May with a degree in biology and has enrolled in dental school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Little graduated from ACU this summer and will begin working as a graduate assistant at an NCAA Division II university in the midwest later this month.
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Forward Austin Cooke and center Duran Porter will both be playing in German professional leagues with Cooke playing for TSV 1861 Nordlingen, while Porter will suit up for the Conlog Baskets who play in the ancient German city of Koblenz. Cooke's team, the Giants, is based in Nordlingen, a city that is more than 1,100 years old.
"We're extremely proud of Austin and Duran and what they meant to our program," ACU head coach Joe Golding said, "and we're excited that both of them are going to have the chance to play professionally. Those two guys, along with Jalen Little and Parker Wentz, helped lay the foundation for what we think is going to be an exciting future for ACU basketball."
A native of Scottsdale, Ariz., Cooke joined the Wildcats just before the program's first season at the NCAA Division I level (2013-14), and he was a consistent performer in his three seasons as a Wildcat. One of the top 3-point shooters in program history, Cooke finished seventh in ACU history in 3-point field goal percentage at 39.6, and eighth in both career 3-pointers made and attempted. He's averaged 7.9 points and 5.1 rebounds in 92 career games, 81 of those coming in starting roles. He graduated from ACU in May with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
A native of Macon, Ga., Porter was a two-year letterman who joined the Wildcats prior to the 2014-15 season from Tallahassee Junior College. He was one of the top centers in the Southland Conference in 2015-16, averaging a career-best 8.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest. He racked up 13 double-digit scoring games as a senior in 2015-16, including the first two double-doubles of his career. In two seasons with the Wildcats, he hit 54 percent of his shots from the field. Porter graduated from ACU this summer with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Wentz graduated ACU in May with a degree in biology and has enrolled in dental school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Little graduated from ACU this summer and will begin working as a graduate assistant at an NCAA Division II university in the midwest later this month.
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