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Brandon Garrison
Position Forward Height- 6-10 Weight- 245 Class Junior Hometown- Oklahoma City High School- Del City High School Previous- Oklahoma State Major- Communication
2024-25: Averaged 5.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game as a sophomore … Saw action in all 35 games in which he was available … Tallied seven double-figure scoring efforts … Led the team in blocks seven times and steals seven times … Was the team’ s leading rebounder in three games … Recorded nine games with three or more assists and had three games with three or more steals … Logged 13 points, six rebounds, two assists and two steals in the NCAA Tournament win over Troy … Logged five points, three boards and two steals in the win over Oklahoma in the SEC Tournament … Had a season-high 15 points, four assists, three steals and two boards in the home finale against LSU … Poured in 12 points and contributed four boards, three steals and a pair of blocks in the road win at Oklahoma … Had eight points and four rebounds at Alabama … Scored six points and chipped in four rebounds and a pair of assists at Texas … Charted five points, five rebounds and a block in the home upset of Tennessee … Scored a season-high-tying 15 points, while adding a pair of blocks vs. South Carolina … Logged eight points and five rebounds at Vanderbilt … Had 11 points and five assists against Alabama at home … Notched 13 points, five rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocks in the upset of Florida … Contributed five points, five rebounds and four assists vs. Brown … Produced five points, four rebounds and four assists in the win over Louisville … Nearly had a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds in the come-from-behind win vs. Gonzaga … Had six points, eight rebounds, six assists, three blocks and three steals at home vs. Jackson State … Tallied eight points and five rebounds against Lipscomb … Had eight points, four rebounds, two assists, a block and a steal in the upset of Duke … Had six points, five assists, four rebounds and two steals in his Kentucky debut vs. Wright State … Named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.
2023-24( at Oklahoma State): Appeared in all 32 games, starting each of the last 29 … Averaged 7.5 points and 5.3 rebounds in 22.7 minutes … Ranked among the Big 12 leaders in blocks per game( 5th, 1.47) … Had 47 total blocks … That was the fifth-most ever by an OSU freshman … Recorded a 58.9 % field-goal percentage … That clip was the fourth-best all-time among OSU rookies with at least 80 makes … Dunked a team-high 22 times … Ramped up his productivity during conference play, averaging 9.9 points and a team-high 5.1 rebounds in 25.8 minutes … Per KenPom, posted the league’ s highest free-throw rate during conference play at 71.6( 68 FTA, 95 FGA) … Registered all three of his 20-point games against Big 12 competition – two of them versus nationallyranked opponents … Scored a season-high 21 on 7-of-8 shooting to key an upset of BYU … Scored 20 in his Big 12 debut against Baylor without missing a shot, going 7 for 7 from the field while sinking all six of his free-throw tries … Keyed a win over West Virginia with 20 points on 6-of-8 shooting … Blocked a personal-best six shots against Houston Christian and swatted five in the Big 12 Championship opener against UCF … Logged his first collegiate double-double against South Carolina State( 11 points, 10 rebounds) on New Year’ s Eve.
HIGH SCHOOL: 2023 McDonalds High School All-American, started for the West squad and scored 11 points on 5-of-5 shooting … Consensus four-star recruit in the Class of 2023, ranked as high as No. 30 by Rivals and also earned high grades from 247sports( 36), ESPN( 41) and On3( 43) … One of 25 players named to USA Today’ s All-USA Team … One of 30 included on the Jordan Brand’ s 2023 All-Star roster … 2023 Gatorade and MaxPreps Player of the Year in the state of Oklahoma … Two-time Daily Oklahoman Super 5 selection … Voted OKC Metro 2022-23 Boys Athlete of the Year … Led his team to a pair of 5A state titles in 2021 and 2023 plus a runner-up finish in 2022 … Averaged a double-double as a senior with 15.7 points and 10.0 rebounds per game … Also added 3.0 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.7 blocks … In the state title game, finished with 17 points and 16 rebounds to key a 35-33 overtime win over Carl Albert … 2023 Player of the Year in the Suburban Conference and 2022 Defensive Player of the Year … Averaged 13 points and 10 rebounds as a junior.
PERSONAL: Born March 31 in Oklahoma City … Parents are Toni and Sidricke Lewis and Tim Garrison … Has four siblings, Kimbrie, Bryana, Brayden and Donavon … Chose Kentucky because of his relationship with Mark Pope … His mother is his life’ s greatest influence … Lists an off-the-court talent as riding horses … Likes to eat candy before games … His favorite food is pizza … Kung Fu Panda is his favorite movie … Dunked for the first time at age 13 … Would choose to fly as his superpower … Chose No. 10 because it has always been his number … Lists Kevin Durant as his favorite basketball player … Bam Adebayo and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander are his favorite former UK players.
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