Marquis “Mookie” Cook, a forward from the University of San Francisco and a 2023 McDonald’s All-American, will join the San José State men’s basketball team for the 2026-27 season, head coach Tim Miles announced on Apr. 22.
Cook is a redshirt junior who stands at 6-foot-6 and hails from Portland, Oregon. Last season at the University of San Francisco, he averaged 7.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists in just over twenty minutes per game. He also shot .444 from the field, nearly forty percent from three-point range and .714 from the free throw line during the 2025-26 campaign.
Cook scored in double figures ten times last season and recorded a career-high eighteen points against Memphis. Before transferring to USF, he spent his first two collegiate seasons at the University of Oregon where he appeared in twenty-four games as a sophomore and played in five games as a freshman.
He was recognized as a consensus four-star recruit out of high school and became San José State’s first ever McDonald’s All-American player. Cook was ranked twenty-first in ESPN’s top one hundred prospects for his class and fortieth by another recruiting service.
Coach Tim Miles said: “We are excited to welcome Mookie and his family to San José State. Mookie is a talented player who will impact our program immediately. Spartan fans will love his versatile skill set.”
The addition of Cook marks an important milestone for San José State basketball as it continues efforts to build its program.
