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2025-26 Men's Basketball Roster

23 Akil Watson

  • Class Junior
  • Position Forward
  • Height 6-9
  • Weight 190
  • Hometown Middletown, NY
  • High School Roselle Catholic HS
  • Last School Arizona State / UMass
  • Major Sociology

Biography

AT UMASS
Sophomore (2024-25)
  • Played in 19 games for the Minutemen
  • Averaged 3.1 points and 2.1 rebounds per game
  • Scored a career-high 14 points at New Hampshire (11/4)

AT ARIZONA STATE
Freshman (2023-24)
  • Played in 21 games for the Sun Devils
  • Scored season-high seven points vs. Utah (3/13) and Northwestern (12/20)
  • Logged a season-high 16 minutes vs. Northwestern (12/20)

HIGH SCHOOL
  • Starred for Roselle Catholic, the No. 1 team in the nation in the 2022-23 Max Preps Preseason Rankings
  • Averaged 11.9 points and 6.4 rebounds while adding 20 steals and 17 blocks for a Roselle Catholic team that went 28-2 and won the New Jersey State Championship
  • Finished the year as the No. 1 team in New Jersey
  • Consensus four-star prospect among all the major national recruiting services
  • One of two Top-100 rated prospects by Rivals, who ranked him as the No. 95 overall and No. 26 small forward prospect in the country
  • 247 Sports ranked him as the No. 114 overall and No. 23 power forward prospect nationally
  • ESPN slotted him as the No. 5 overall prospect out of New Jersey and No. 26 small forward prospect in the nation
  • No. 107 overall and No. 21 power forward prospect in the country according to On3

PERSONAL
  • Son of Akilah and James
  • Has three siblings, Tarik, Ehsan and Ajani
  • His younger brother, Tarik, plays basketball for Marist
  • Born on January 31, 2004

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