{"id":410017,"date":"2026-07-23T22:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410017\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:48:25","slug":"mens-basketball-inks-guard-wisdom-fode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410017\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Inks Guard Wisdom Fode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. &#8211; Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/staff-directory\/chris-gerlufsen\/404\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Gerlufsen<\/a> and the University of San Francisco (USF) men&#8217;s basketball team announced today the signing of guard Wisdom Fode (Des Moines, Iowa).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wisdom is the exact kind of player we love bringing to USF,&#8221; said Gerlufsen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has a great attitude, great work ethic, and he really wants to be here on the Hilltop. Wisdom is an explosive athlete with great physical tools and a 6&#8217;9&#8243; wingspan as a guard. He wants to be coached and embrace the work it takes to reach his potential. We believe Wisdom&#8217;s best basketball is still ahead of him, and our staff is excited to help him grow as a player. We can&#8217;t wait to see him in a Dons uniform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fode grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, where he played at Des Moines North and Hoover High School.<\/p>\n<p>He later transferred to Bella Vista Prep in Phoenix, Ariz., to finish his high school career. While at Bella Vista, he averaged roughly 16 points per game, 6 rebounds per game, 5 assists per game, and 3 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>On the amateur circuit, Fode played for Team Supreme AZ, a top independent grassroots and AAU basketball program in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>He comes to the Hilltop after also receiving offers from Kansas State, Monmouth, and Bethune-Cookman.<\/p>\n<p>For updates and more information on the University of San Francisco men&#8217;s basketball program, follow the Dons <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USFDonsMBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@USFDonsMBB<\/a> on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/usfdonsmbb\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@USFDonsMBB<\/a> on Instagram, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/usfdonsmbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@USFDonsMBB<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. &#8211; Head coach Chris Gerlufsen and the University of San Francisco (USF) men&#8217;s basketball team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-410017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}