Indiana formally introduced the addition of Kel’el Ware for the 2023-24 season on Friday morning.
Ware dedicated to the Hoosiers on Monday night.
Right here’s the complete launch from IU media relations:
IU males’s basketball coach Mike Woodson has introduced that Kel’el Ware, a 7-0, 210 lb., heart, will be a part of this system as a switch and have three seasons of eligibility. He involves IU from Oregon the place he performed 35 video games and began 4 as a freshman for the Geese. He averaged 6.6 factors and 4.1 rebounds in 15.8 minutes of motion per sport and led the workforce in blocked photographs with 45. His finest sport of the yr was an 18-point, nine-board effort towards eventual nationwide champion, UConn. He additionally had 9 rebounds towards Michigan State.
A local of North Little Rock, Arkansas, he led North Little Rock Excessive College to back-to-back state championships and was the 2021 State Match MVP. He earned a number of All-State and All-Convention honors. As a senior, he averaged 21.2 factors, 12.0 rebounds and 5.7 blocks and as a junior, He averaged 16.2 factors, 9.1 rebounds, and 4.1 blocks per sport for Coach Johnny Rice and the Charging Wildcats. Completed his sophomore marketing campaign averaging 12.7 ppg. and 6.8 rpg. to assist NLR to a 23-5 mark that ended because of COVID. He performed AAU ball for All-Arkansas Pink.
He was a 2022 McDonald’s All-American the place he had eight factors and a team-high 10 boards for the West. He additionally was a Jordan Model All-Star participant alongside Hoosiers Jalen Hood-Schifino and Malik Reneau and performed within the Iverson Traditional. For the Class of 2022, he was ranked sixth general within the last 247Sports particular person rankings, seventh by Rivals.com and eighth by ESPN.com. He represented USA Basketball successful a gold medal on the 2022 FIBA U18 Americas Championship in Tijuana, Mexico. He performed for the 2022 USA Nike Hoop Summit Group that defeated the World Choose Group 102-80 within the twenty third Nike Hoop Summit and got here off the bench to attain 11 factors on four-of-five taking pictures from the sector and in addition grabbed 5 rebounds.
He’s the son of Tamika Spaight and Cedrick Spaight; has two brothers, Javarus Ware and Kashis Spaight, and two sisters, Dyamyn Ware and Jazzmyn Spaight. He was born April 20, 2004.
WOODSON ON WARE
“Kel’el is an especially gifted participant who will convey lots to our program. He’s an amazing athlete whose talent stage in all aspects of the sport will make us higher. He’s a rim protector with nice dimension and size, he runs the ground so nicely, he can shoot and he’s somebody who competed and received at a excessive stage in highschool. We welcome he and his household to Bloomington and to Hoosier Nation.”
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