{"id":90785,"date":"2025-08-18T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90785\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:39:07","slug":"southern-illinois-guard-dibba-to-transfer-to-texas-am-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90785\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Illinois guard Dibba to transfer to Texas A&#038;M | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARBONDALE, Ill. &#8212; Southern Illinois guard Ali Dibba will spend his final year of eligibility playing at the SEC level, transferring to Texas A&amp;M, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aggiembk\/status\/1956758723625640336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post by the Aggies&#8217; official X account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Rothstein reported Dibba was granted an extra year of eligibility by the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p>Dibba was selected to the All-Missouri Valley Conference Third Team in the 2024-25 season, leading SIU in scoring at 17.2 points per game, his only season with the Salukis.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the program after spending two years with Abilene Christian. He started his college career in 2021 with Chicago State, only playing 5 games. According to Chicago State, Dibba missed the non-conference slate &#8220;due to travel restrictions within his native Sweden.&#8221; He then returned to the team, but injured his hand after 5 games and did not play the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Dibba joins Kennard Davis as major departures from the SIU program this offseason. Davis transferred to BYU. The Salukis added 7 newcomers and returned 8 players this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARBONDALE, Ill. &#8212; Southern Illinois guard Ali Dibba will spend his final year of eligibility playing at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,1976,4044,2662,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-90785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}