The Kentucky men’s basketball team has added a high-scoring, experienced playmaker to its roster for the 2021-22 season with the addition of Kellan Grady, a graduate transfer from Davidson.
Grady, a 6-foot-5 guard, will join UK after scoring more than 2,000 points in four seasons at Davidson. He averaged at least 17.1 points per game in all four years.
Under NCAA graduate transfer rules, Grady will be eligible to play for the Wildcats in the fall after graduating from Davidson with an undergraduate degree in sociology. He is expected to graduate in May.
Grady was a prolific scorer at Davidson who scored 2,002 career points on 47.2% career shooting. With 240 career 3-pointers, Grady has made at least 51 treys in all four seasons and shot a career-best 38.2% from behind the arc in 2020-21. He has 21 games with at least four 3-pointers. Grady reached the 2,000-point milestone in Davidson’s final game of 2020-21 and was the sixth player in program history to achieve the mark.
The Boston native has been one of the Atlantic 10’s best players from the very start of his college career. Grady is a four-time All-A-10 selection, including a two-time first-team pick. He won A-10 Player of the Week five times in his Davidson career in addition to five A-10 Rookie of the Week honors in his breakthrough 2017-18 campaign. Grady was named in A-10 Rookie of the Year that season.
Grady averaged 17.4 points in his time at Davidson, scoring 18.0 points per game his freshman season, 17.3 as a sophomore, 17.2 as a junior and 17.1 this past season. With an ability to play either guard position, Grady averaged 4.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game in 2020-21.
The scoring consistency of Grady will be a welcomed addition to UK, which posted its lowest scoring average and field-goal percentage in the 12-season Calipari era. Grady has scored in double figures 96 times in his career, 20 or more points 44 times and 30 or more six times. His career high is 39 points, set his freshman season.
Davidson posted a winning record in all four seasons with Grady on the roster, including an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018 that coincidentally pitted him vs. Kentucky in the first round. Grady scored 16 points in the 78-73 loss to UK.
Grady was a top-70 prospect (Rivals and 247Sports) out of high school. He was an all-state selection out of Northfield Mount Hermon School.