Colorado State men\u2019s basketball\u2019s 2026-27 roster is complete.<\/p>\n
Late last week, the Rams got a commitment from University High School senior River Sawyer as a walk-on to complete the team\u2019s 14-player squad for next season.<\/p>\n
Sawyer announced his commitment on social media May 23.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-4 guard from Greeley was a Class 4A first-team all-state selection this past season after averaging 18.7 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.1 steals in his senior year with the Bulldogs. He shot 48% from the field, 37% from behind the arc and 84% from the free throw line.<\/p>\n
He led University to the Class 4A title game where the Bulldogs lost to top seed Kent Denver, 95-81, on March 14. He scored 26 points and had eight rebounds in the championship contest.<\/p>\n
In the Bulldogs\u2019 five-game state tournament run, he averaged 20.4 points and 6.2 rebounds per game, including the 26 in the finale and 21 in University\u2019s semifinal victory over Peak to Peak.<\/p>\n
He is the second Colorado player joining the Rams\u2019 2026-27 roster, along with Regis Jesuit\u2019s Eric Fiedler, the CHSAA 6A player of the year.<\/p>\n
Sawyer and Fielder join other incoming freshmen Pops Dunson and Jaden Ghoreishi and transfers Amondo Miller Jr., a graduate from Lubbock Christian, and Justin Menard, a junior from Marist, as newcomers to the team next year.<\/p>\n
They will join returning players Carey Booth, Jase Butler, Josh Pascarelli, JoJo McIver, Rashaan Mbemba, Charlie Dortch, Kyle Jorgensen and Docker Tedeschi.<\/p>\n
Sawyer and Dortch are the team\u2019s two walk-ons.<\/p>\n
CSU went 21-13 last season in Ali Farokhmanesh\u2019s first season as the team\u2019s head coach. The Rams went 11-9 and lost in the second round of the league tournament in their last season in the Mountain West Conference.<\/p>\n
They were selected to play in the NIT and lost in the first round to Saint Joseph\u2019s on May 18 at Moby Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado State men\u2019s basketball\u2019s 2026-27 roster is complete. Late last week, the Rams got a commitment from University…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,4762,340336,3912,102238,340337,340338,3913,113813,34956,177142,3914,2289,340339,44,85,225015],"class_list":["post-698455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-college-sports-menu2019s-basketball","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-csu-rams","tag-fort-collins","tag-front-range","tag-greeley","tag-high-school-sports","tag-larimer-county","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-loveland","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}