Make that two booms for Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats on Wednesday. First, it was Dayton sharpshooter Koby Brea. Now, West Virginia transfer Kerr Kriisa is joining in on the action, the ninth official addition this offseason.
The 6-3 guard out of Estonia is set to be a fifth-year senior following stops at Arizona (2020-23) and West Virginia (2023-24), his final season of eligibility. Known as a top-flight shooter coming off a career season from beyond the arc where he knocked down 42.4% of his threes on 6.3 attempts per contest.
This past season at WVU, Kriisa averaged a career-high 11.0 points to go with 4.7 assists and 2.5 rebounds per contest on 42.9% shooting and 42.4% from three. He’s posted career averages of 9.7 points, 4.7 assists and 2.3 rebounds on 37.5/36.8/78.8 shooting splits.
Overall, he’s started 93 games between his two stops in Tucson and Morgantown, drilling 238 career threes while also being a key piece on Arizona’s 33-win team in 2021-22 that won the Pac-12 and earned a No. 1 seed.
Kriisa becomes the seventh portal addition for the Wildcats, joining Brandon Garrison from Oklahoma State, Otega Oweh from Oklahoma, Lamont Butler Jr. from San Diego State, Amari Williams from Drexel, Koby Brea from Dayton and Andrew Carr from Wake Forest. Four-star freshmen Collin Chandler and Travis Perry round out the nine-man group for Pope.
Nine down, four more scholarship spots to go.
Welcome to the family, Kerr Kriisa.
The most common refrain Kentucky fans could hear from other Kentucky fans after and even during the loss to Ohio State last night was an annoying fact that Aubu
“We are breaking camp after the game on December 21 — if we win.” Those were Mark Pope’s final words ahead of Kentucky’s trip to New York City for th
For the first time since November 19, Aaron Bradshaw jogged over to the scorers table for Ohio State, checking in at the 17:46 mark of the first half. As his n
The numbers behind Kentucky‘s loss to Ohio State in Madison Square Garden are ugly. Mark Pope even acknowledged the discrepancies in his postgame comments fr