Former Penn State guard Sam Sessoms announces transfer destination
Former Penn State Nittany Lions basketball guard Sam Sessoms has announced his next move.
Sessoms will close out his collegiate career with a season at Coppin State.
Sessoms chose Coppin State from a top-six that also included Minnesota, George Mason, UTEP, Michigan and Mississippi State.
The 6-foot guard spent two seasons in State College following his transfer from Binghamton.
He spent the majority of last season in a sixth-man role under Micah Shrewsberry. Sessoms concluded the season averaging 11.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game while shooting 44.8 percent from the floor.
Coppin State finished sixth in the MEAC last year with a 6-8 conference record.
The Nittany Lions will hope to have replaced some of Sessoms production with pair of transfer additions they made Thursday. Bucknell guard Andrew Funk and Drexel guard Camren Wynter both announced their commitments to Penn State.
What the additions of Funk and Wynter mean for Penn State
The Nittany Lions are getting two players who can score the ball.
After the departure of Sessoms, who entered the transfer portal shortly after the season ended, that’s important.
Penn State finished the season last in the Big Ten in scoring at 64.6 points per game. That looks slightly better when you factor in tempo, but the Nittany Lions were still only 179th in the country in offensive efficiency.
Wynter and Funk should help Penn State put the ball in the basket. A first-team All-Colonial guard in the last two seasons, Wynter averaged 15.8 points per game last year and 16.2 the year before. He’s also an effective passer, posting over five assists per game for his career.
He’s been the main man at Drexel for the better part of three seasons. When he was on the court in 2021-22, he took over 27 percent of his team’s shots.
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His success shooting the three could be what makes the difference for him next season in State College. Wynter entered last season as a plus three-point shooter.
In his first two seasons at Drexel, Wynter shot 33 and 35 percent from beyond the arc. As a junior, his three-point percentage ballooned all the way up to an outstanding 41.5. Last year, though, he shot only 27.8 percent.
Funk’s scoring output was even more considerable.
He averaged 17.6 points per game last season, shooting 43 percent from the field and 36 percent from 3.
Funk took a whopping 493 shots for the Bison last season, and while he certainly won’t be asked to approach that number this year, his scoring chops should only help Penn State.
