SDSU basketball announces return of four players, three of them potential starters
In a month of uncertainty and volatility, San Diego State's basketball program announced that four players - three of them potential starters - aren't participating in the mass game of musical chairs.
Elzie Harrington, Tae Simmons, Latrell Davis and Thokbor Majak have all signed revenue-sharing contracts that will keep them with the team next season.
The announcement came Monday, confirming what would have become official a day later when college basketball's transfer portal officially closed. Players in it can still move teams, but those who aren't by Tuesday night's deadline face the stiff deterrent of sitting out a year if they transfer now.
That makes the 2025-26 roster's final math look like this: three seniors, six players in the portal and four returnees.
So far, the Aztecs have added three newcomers: incoming freshman Zach White, 6-foot-11 Sacramento State transfer Jeremiah "Bear" Cherry and 6-4 Rice transfer Nick Anderson.
More could join them later this week. SDSU is finalizing paperwork to land a European pro and is known to be actively pursuing a point guard and post from the domestic transfer portal.
The 6-5 Harrington started 17 games as a true freshman before the back half of the season was slowed by a leg injury that may or may not require surgery. In 23 total games, much of it at point guard, he averaged 8.0 points while shooting a team-high 43.6% on 3s and 81.3% from the line. He had a career-high 20 points in a 110-107 triple-overtime win against Boise State on Jan. 3, becoming the primary scoring threat down the stretch and OT.
The 6-6 Simmons, also a true freshman, went from the third-choice power forward to the starter in the conference tournament. His per-game averages (5.8 points, 3.4 rebounds) are modest until you realize he did it in just 14.3 minutes. His 9.6 rebounds per 40 minutes ranked first on the team, and several of his other efficiency metrics were in the top three.
"I would hope they want to be back," Dutcher told the media after the season, "but they’ll both be valued because of what they did this year as freshmen. … Maybe some (players) will leave because they feel they didn’t weren’t valued enough, didn’t play enough. Those two played enough.
"Elzie was a starter, and Tae started at the very end of the year and played a lot of significant minutes. So they know they’re valued here. It’s whether they feel like that value has grown where other people want to pay them more for the same thing."
The 6-3 Davis opted to redshirt, a pre-arranged agreement if Miles Byrd withdrew from the NBA draft last spring, and many days was the best player in practice. He averaged 11.1 points and made 38.3% of his 3s at San Jose State before transferring with two years of eligibility remaining.
Davis grew up in England before spending his last two years of high school in Florida under a coach whose father played basketball for Dutcher's father at Eastern Michigan in the late 1960s.
"He’s extremely talented, and he has a skill set that some of the players I had on the team didn’t have this year," Dutcher said last month. "I’m encouraged by adding Latrell next year. I think he’ll have a chance to be a first team all-conference type player."
Majak will be in his third year in the program but only his eighth year of basketball after growing up in South Sudan and other African countries. At 7-1, he is a shot-blocking force but continues to gain the strength necessary to play at this level.
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This story was originally published April 20, 2026 at 2:04 PM.