Western Kentucky’s men’s basketball team picked up commitment out of the NCAA transfer portal on Thursday.

Cam Haffner, a native of Westfield, Indiana, announced his commitment to WKU via his X (formerly Twitter) social media account. Haffner played this past season at Evansville.

A 6-foot-2 guard, Haffner just completed his junior season with the Purple Aces. He spent two seasons at Evansville after transferring from Eastern Illinois, where he was the Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year after averaging 7.5 points per game.

In his first season at Evansville, Haffner played in all 35 games with 16 starts and averaged 4.7 points and 1.8 rebounds per game.

Haffner started all 20 games he appeared in this past season for the Purple Aces, finishing third-best on the team in scoring with 12.7 points per game. He also ranked second on the squad with 47 made 3-pointers despite missing 12 games. Haffner’s 3-point shooting clip of 36.7% (47-of-128) ranked best on the team.

Haffner faced off against the Hilltoppers on Dec. 7 in Evansville and produced one of his best performances of the season. He scored 19 points on 7-of-16 shooting, grabbed eight rebounds, tallied four assists and one steal in WKU’s 79-65 win.

Haffner went down with a wrist injury against UIC on Jan. 22 and did not play the remainder of the season.

DIAGNE ENTERS TRANSFER PORTAL

The Hilltoppers had another player off this past season’s squad enter the transfer portal.

Fallou Diagne, a 6-11 forward/center from Dakar, Senegal, entered the portal Tuesday.

Diagne, who missed the entire season with a knee injury suffered early in the 2023-24 campaign, spent three years at WKU.

In his first season in 2022-23, Diagne averaged 2.6 points and one rebound per game. Diagne played in only five games the following season before he was sidelined with the knee injury that has kept him off the court for most of the past two seasons.

Diagne is the latest WKU player off this past season’s squad to opt for the transfer portal.

Fellow Senegal native Babacar Faye, a 6-8 forward who spent two seasons with the Hilltoppers, entered the portal last month after averaging 15.2 points and 7.8 rebounds in an injury-shortened 2023-24 season.

Julius Thedford, a promising freshman guard who also missed significant time due to injury, averaged 12.4 points per game in his lone season with the Hilltoppers. He also entered the portal last month, along with fellow guards Don McHenry and Enoch Kalambay.

McHenry has been WKU’s top scorer in both of his two seasons with the program after transferring in from Indian Hills Community College. After earning first-team All-Conference USA honors in 2023-24 after averaging a team-best 15.1 points per game, McHenry was named an All-CUSA second-team pick this past season after averaging 17.0 points per game.

Kalambay, also a two-year member of the program and fellow Indian Hills CC transfer, averaged 8.2 points and 4.1 rebounds per game this past season.