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Kareem Watkins
College basketball player KentuckyPtsRebAstCurrent Season0.00.20.2View the profile of Kentucky Wildcats Guard Kareem Watkins on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
Made one appearance, logging two minutes in Kentucky’s dominating regular-season finale victory over South Carolina. HIGH SCHOOL Appeared in all 26 games for Kingsway Regional during his senior season …
Nov 4, 2022 · Get to know University of Kentucky junior men’s basketball player Kareem Watkins as the Wildcats prepare to tip off the 2022-23 season.
Mar 6, 2024 · Kareem Watkins enjoys final Kentucky basketball season with family. Watkins, a 5-foot-8 guard from New Jersey, joined the UK program as a walk-on ahead of the 2020-21 season.
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That’s just the deepest connection. Calipari also hired Wagner’s father, Milt Wagner — a former Louisville basketball standout — as his coordinator of basketball operations at Memphis before he moved on to become an assistant under Tony Barbee at UTEP (2006-10) and Auburn (2010-14). Wagner’s godfather is also William Wesley — “World Wide Wes” — a l...
Watkins himself was a solid player at Kingsway Regional High School in Camden, averaging 8.7 points in 26 games as a senior, scoring in double figures in 11. He’s certainly been a tremendous help as Kentucky’s scout team point guard in practice, and he’s known as a fun-loving, bubbly personality in the locker room. It doesn’t hurt sharing a home wi...
As if UK needed any other connections in this recruitment, sophomore forward Lance Ware was a former teammate of Wagner’s at Camden. The players’ high school head coach, Rick Brunson, recently told KSR that Ware was a “four-year player”at Kentucky, potentially aligning their careers once more, just as they did in 2020 when Wagner was a freshman and...
The five-star guard’s recruitment is one the entire basketball world has its collective eye on. Kentucky is a school he “grew up watching” and “definitely” likes, with others also reaching out and hoping to make a push. “I can’t really name all of them off the top of my head, but a few I can name are Kentucky, Villanova, LSU, Memphis,” Wagner said....
Nov 3, 2020 · Kentucky announced Tuesday that it had added Kareem Watkins as a walk-on. A freshman point guard, Watkins finalizes the 2020-21 roster at 15 players. Freshman walk-on Isaac DeGregorio left the team last week due to personal reasons.
Kentucky walk-on guard Kareem Watkins has been thrown in the middle of one of the most heated in-state battles in the modern recruiting era. His brother, DJ Wagner, is the top-ranked guard in the class of 2023 and the No. 1 priority for both John Calipari at the University of Kentucky and Kenny Payne at the University of Louisville.
