CANISIUS COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Canisius head men’s basketball coach Reggie Witherspoon announced Tuesday that Malek Green(Cincinnati, Ohio) has joined the men’s basketball program after starting his collegiate career at Morehead State. As a transfer student, Green will sit out the 2019-20 season per NCAA transfer rules and will have two years of eligibility remaining, starting in the 2020-21 campaign.
Malek Green | 6-7 | 215 | F | Cincinnati, Ohio | Taft High School | Morehead State
• Played in 61 games, where he made 35 starts for Morehead State during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 season.
• Averaged 7.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in his career with the Eagles. He scored a career-high 23 points against SIUE March 6, 2019, and pulled down a career-best 13 boards at Austin Peay Jan. 5, 2019.
• Hit on 51.0 percent of his shots from the field in his time at Morehead State, highlighted by a 52.8 percent shooting effort in 2018-19, which ranked ninth-best in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC).
• As a senior at Taft High School in Cincinnati, Green averaged 21.8 points, 13.5 rebounds, 4.2 blocks and 2.4 assists per game. A first-team all-conference honoree after his senior campaign, he was credited with 20 double-doubles and shot 63 percent from the floor in his final scholastic season.
Witherspoon on Green: “We are very happy to add Malek Green to our program here at Canisius. He brings with him two years of experience at the Division I level from a very competitive conference in the OVC. He has also experienced the grind of what it takes to be a college basketball player at this level. He knows and understands what it takes to be successful in the classroom, on the court and in the weight room.”
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