Kentucky guard Jasper Johnson plans to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal
Kentucky guard Jasper Johnson plans to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal, On3’s Joe Tipton confirms. Johnson only spent one season with the Wildcats. He appeared in all but one of Kentucky’s 36 games this past season.
The 6-foot-5 freshman averaged 4. 9 points, 1. 1 rebounds and 1.
6 assists in 12. 0 minutes per game, while shooting 40. 0% from the field and 34.
1% from beyond the arc. While Johnson showed promising flashes early in the season, he struggled in conference play. He only scored double figures in two games against SEC competition.
Johnson had his best performance of the season in Kentucky’s blowout win over North Carolina Central . In the victory, Johnson tallied a career-high 22 points on 6-10 shooting from the floor. Jasper Johnson played high school basketball for Overtime Elite, but is originally from Lexington, Kentucky.