Louisville basketball on Monday scored a commitment through the NCAA transfer portal from former Kennesaw State guard Adrian Wooley, who quietly had one of the best 2024-25 seasons of any freshman across the country.
Wooley, a 6-foot-5 native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, reportedly visited with coach Pat Kelsey and the Cardinals on Friday. At the time of his pledge, 247Sports had him as the top-ranked combo guard on the market.
Wooley was named Conference USA Freshman of the Year and became the first rookie since the conference was founded in 1995 to average more than 17 points per game while shooting better than 50% from the field. His 11 CUSA Freshman of the Week honors are the most in league history.
"(He's) a guy who can just stuff a stat sheet," 247Sports analyst Travis Branham told the publication's director of scouting, Adam Finkelstein, on Thursday. "But he does it very efficiently. … When it's all said and done, you look back in one or two years, I think he's an all-conference guard at the power (conference) level and/or he's playing in the NBA."
Wooley started all but one of Kennesaw State's 33 games and had 15 outings of 20-plus points. He led the team in scoring (18.8), field-goal percentage (51.2%, 42.2% from 3-point range) and assists (3.6) with 5.2 rebounds and 1.4 steals to boot across 33.6 minutes per contest. One byproduct of that high usage rate: turnovers, 109 to be exact.
When Wooley was crowned the CUSA's top freshman on March 10, the Owls reported he was one of only two first-year players across the country to pace their respective squads in scoring and field-goal percentage. The other player was Duke's Cooper Flagg — the projected No. 1 pick in this year's NBA draft.
The following players from Kelsey's inaugural team are in line to return, if they don't elect to pursue opportunities elsewhere: J'Vonne ...
