Gamecocks basketball targets tall, Australian guard from JUCO

South Carolina basketball coach Frank Martin continues to search nationwide and worldwide for potential recruiting targets to fill the holes in his roster for next season.

One player he is now looking at is 6-foot-8 guard Keanu Pinder, a native of Australia who played the past two seasons at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. Prior to attending Hutchinson, Pinder attended Sunrise Christian Academy, where Martin found 6-foot-9 2016 signee Maik Kotsar.

Pinder just decommitted from New Mexico. He also has been committed to Nebraska in the past. This season he started 30 of 34 games as the Dragons lost in the junior college national championship game. He averaged 10 points and seven rebounds a game while shooting 52 percent from the floor and 63 percent from the line.

Pinder is early in the process since decommitting from the Lobos and several schools have been in touch with him. He's not at the point where he's identified the ones he plans to visit.

This story was originally published April 15, 2016 at 5:16 PM with the headline "Gamecocks basketball targets tall, Australian guard from JUCO."