This article originally appeared on December 24, 2013 on The Arkansas Traveler website, uatrav.com.
Freshman center Moses Kingsley was half of Arkansas’ 2013
recruiting class that was ranked No. 14 in the country by Scout.com.
Kingsley moved to Mississippi from Nigeria in the 10th grade and
quickly became the top basketball player in the state, before attending
national basketball-power Huntington Prep in West Virginia his senior year.
At Huntington Prep, he averaged 8.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 4.1
blocks per game. Playing alongside top recruit Andrew Wiggins, his 130 blocks
during the season led the team.
His play earned him a top 50 ranking by 247sports.com, Scout.com
and ESPN.com, as well as nine scholarship offers from schools such as Florida,
Louisville and Memphis.
However, he chose to play with his teammate with the Arkansas
Wings Elite AAU team, Bobby Portis, at Arkansas.
Despite not starting a game this season and playing only 10.3
minutes per game, Kingsley leads the team with two blocked shots per game and
is fifth on the team with 3.8 rebounds per game. He is also the most efficient
shooter on the team, making 64.3 percent of the shots he takes.
His coming out party came against Tennessee-Martin, when he scored
12 points, hauled in 12 rebounds and blocked three shots.
While he is just a freshman, Kingsley will give the Razorbacks a
second big man to either play alongside Portis or relieve him when he is tired
or in foul trouble.
This is the 11th of a series of short articles about the Arkansas basketball team. Each
day leading up to SEC play, I will post an entry about something basketball
related that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. Here are links to the
previous entries, as well as the dates for the next five…
L – Dec. 25
M – Dec. 26
N – Dec. 27
O – Dec. 28
P – Dec. 29
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