Gonzaga will be one newcomer short when it opens its season against Eastern Washington Nov. 11.
Junior college transfer Guy Landry Edi was ruled ineligible for the first eight games by the NCAA, Gonzaga athletic director Mike Roth told The Spokesman-Review on Sunday.
Landry Edi, a 6-foot-6 218-pound forward who hails from Ivory Coast, played professional basketball for an "upper-level team in France when he was 15 or 16," according to Roth.
Unless an appeal to the NCAA is successful, Landry Edi will make his debut in the team's ninth contest against Arizona, in The Battle in Seattle Dec. 17 and he will suit up for the first time in the McCarthey Athletic Center against reigning national runner-up Butler three days later.
He'll miss the first eight games, against Eastern Washington, Washington State, Hawaii, Western Michigan, Notre Dame, Illinois, Michigan State and Oral Roberts.
Landry Edi spent two years at Midland College in Texas, where he averaged 9.4 points per game and just less than six rebounds before transferring to Gonzaga.
During his final season, he led his team to the National Junior College Athletic Association national championship, averaging 16.3 points per contest and seven rebounds.
Landry Edi is a member of Gonzaga's incoming class of newcomers with freshman guards Gary Bell Jr., Kevin Pangos and Kyle Dranginis and frosh forward Ryan Spangler.
Once eligible, Landry Edi will have two seasons in a Bulldog jersey.
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