Kerr Kriisa is the first UK basketball player to make a move. He’s in the transfer portal

Kerr Kriisa’s time as a Kentucky Wildcat was brief. As expected, Kriisa entered his name in the NCAA transfer portal Monday morning, the first player from the 2024-25 UK men’s basketball roster to make a move following the team’s loss to Tennessee in the NCAA Tournament on Friday night. This decision has been expected for weeks. Kriisa came to Lexington around this time last year billed as an electric offensive player who seemed a perfect fit for Mark Pope’s fast and free offensive system. Pope and longtime assistant Cody Fueger, who followed the head coach to UK last spring, were the first college coaches to recruit Kriisa — back when he was a teenage recruit in Europe — but they couldn’t get a commitment from him at BYU. That changed when Pope got the Kentucky job, and Kriisa began the 2024-25 season as the backup to starting point guard Lamont Butler, expected to be an offensive spark plug off the bench for the Wildcats.

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