Howard University has struck gold again on the basketball recruiting front.

Kuluel Mading, a 6-foot-9 forward from The Burlington School in North Carolina, has signed to play for Bison Coach Ken Blakeney starting in the fall of 2021.

Mading is the 89th top player in the nation according to 247 Sports. com. Mading averaged 15 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots per game last season for the North Carolina school.

Virginia Commonwealth University and Hampton, Old Dominion and Radford universities were among the Virginia schools in the hunt for Mading. Earlier this year, Coach Blakeney signed 6-foot-11 Makur Maker from Phoenix rated a consensus national Top 20 prospect. Howard University went just 4-29 last season in Coach Blakeney’s first season. But the skies ahead appear brighter for the MEAC school in Washington.