Jarrett Culver Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 02/20/99
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:195 lbs. / 88.5 kg.
Salary: $5,813,640
Born: 02/20/99
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:195 lbs. / 88.5 kg.
Salary: $5,813,640
Looking back, he blames his under-the-radar status in part on location—“Not a lot of people got out to Lubbock to see what I could do”—and also on his relative late-bloomer status; unlike some other prominent members of the 2019 lottery class, Culver wasn’t an Instagram highlight star at 14 or 15. But Texas Tech coach Chris Beard saw plenty to offer the hometown kid a scholarship, and after a slow-building freshman campaign in 2017-18—in which he started most of the second half of the season—Beard’s faith was more than justified last year.
“Going into my sophomore year, when all the preseason rankings and awards came out, I wasn’t in a lot of them, and that kind of drove me,” he says. The payoff: 18.5 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists, and a rep as one of the best defenders in the nation en route to being named Big 12 Conference Player of the Year. He says he didn’t really expect the award, but he also wasn’t surprised. “It’s something that I worked toward, to be one of the best players in the conference, so at the end of the day I would say I expected it, just because of how hard I worked.”
Kyle Ratke: Jarrett Culver: “You see what they’re building … I’m trying to win just as bad as these coaches and everyone else.”
John Meyer: Gersson Rosas speaking about Jarrett Culver as the Wolves introduce their three new rookies (including Jaylen Nowell and Naz Reid, who they announce has signed a multi-year contract): “When your best players are your hardest workers, they set the tone for the program.”
19 Jun
