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Now that everyone in college basketball can freely transfer one time, the transfer portal is exploding with multiple impact players entering it every day.
As that occurs, the Kentucky Wildcats keep finding new potential targets each day. One of the earliest transfers Kentucky reached out to once the offseason began was Western Carolina grad transfer Mason Faulkner.
However, Faulkner is now off the board, as he just committed to the Colorado Buffaloes.
A Glasgow (KY) native, Faulkner was an All-Southern Conference Third Team selection after averaging 16.3 points, 5.5 rebound and 4.8 assists per game this past season. He scored in double-figures 19 times, including eight 20+ point outings.
BOULDER – The University of Colorado men s basketball team has signed
Mason Faulkner, a graduate transfer from Western Carolina, to play for the Buffaloes in 2021-22 head coach
Tad Boyle announced on Friday.
A 6-foot, 1-inch, 190-pound guard from Glasgow, Ky., Faulkner averaged 17.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.2 steals in 53 games over two seasons with Western Carolina. He shot 42 percent from the field and 77 percent from the free throw line while averaging nearly 34 minutes per game.
Faulkner adds experience and depth to a Colorado squad that features only two scholarship upperclassmen – seniors-to-be
Evan Battey and
Eli Parquet – and nine underclassmen at this moment for the 2021-22 campaign. Faulkner joins a 2021 signing class that already ranks No. 13 in the nation, and tops in the Pac-12, according to 247Sports.com.