Washington State added another piece to its 2026-27 men’s basketball roster on Wednesday, announcing the signing of 6-foot-1 guard Pedro Sancho Moraga out of Valencia, Spain.
Sancho Moraga started his path at the Valencia Basket Academy before moving on to Zentro C.B.’s junior team in Madrid. He spent this past year in the United States at the Academy of Central Florida, working through the adjustment to the North American game.
That transition is rarely simple, and the Cougars have already seen how bumpy it can be. Adria Rodriguez struggled through his first season at WSU after arriving with bigger expectations.
Sancho Moraga’s numbers from last season are limited, but scoutbasketball.com lists him at 2.4 points, 1.3 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game in 15 games during the 2024-25 season. He was 17 years old at the time and only turned 19 this past May.
The setup around Sancho Moraga looks different from the one Rodriguez stepped into. Rodriguez came in as a senior expected to start and be a major contributor. Sancho Moraga, by contrast, appears to be more of a long-term project, and he and Australian forward Roman Stathis could end up redshirting.
That would give him room to settle in without the pressure of producing immediately.
He joins a roster that already includes Dominik Robinson and Dio Blakely, the only returnees from this past season; D-II Central Missouri transfer Lazerek Houston; Oregon transfer Jamari Phillips; UNLV transfer Ladji Dembele; Northwestern transfer Tyler Kropp; Providence transfer Jaylen Harrell; East Texas A&M transfer Ronnie Harrison; TCU transfer RJ Jones; Manhattan transfer Fraser Roxburgh; freshman signees Brayden Kyman and Roman Stathis; and EWU transfer Casey Jones, who is returning from an LDS mission after previously announcing his intention to become a Coug a year ago.
Sancho Moraga is one of three freshmen on the roster, along with Kyman and Stathis.
In April, David Riley told media members that the total money WSU’s outgoing players received in the transfer portal this offseason came to $10 million. An industry source who tracks revenue sharing and NIL told the source he believes the two biggest financial winners from WSU were Ace Glass, who got about $2 million to Vanderbilt, and ND Okafor, who received more than $1.5 million from Mississippi State.
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