SAN ANTONIO – UTSA basketball great Keaton Wallace was picked in the second round with the ninth overall selection in the 2021 NBA G League Draft by the Wisconsin Herd, an affiliate of the Milwaukee Bucks, on Saturday afternoon.
Wallace, a native of Dallas, Texas, played the 2021 NBA Summer League with the Memphis Grizzlies, where had had several breakout moments, including exploding for a team-high 20 points in his summer league debut against the Utah Jazz summer league roster.
A 6-foot-3 guard who prepped at Richardson High School, Wallace exited his career at UTSA as the second all-time leading scorer in program history, netting 2,080 points in his career. He totaled the sixth-most points in Conference USA history and his total ranked 428th in NCAA basketball history. A four-time All-Conference USA selection, Wallace averaged 11.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game during an all-freshman team campaign in 2017-18, before going for 20.2 points and 5.0 rebounds per game as a sophomore. He went for 18.8 points and 4.5 rebounds per game as a junior before averaging 16.8 points and 5.5 rebounds, with a career-best 3.4 assists per game in 2020-21.
He ranks among the UTSA all-time leaders in points, ranking seventh in scoring average (16.8), third in games played (125), four in starts (109), third in free-throw percentage (80.6), seventh in free-throws made (304), second in field goal (715), ninth in rebounds (554) and sixth in assists (355).
Combining with backcourt mate Jhivvan Jackson, the pair formed the second-highest scoring duo of any single recruiting class in NCAA history, behind only Duke's Johnny Dawkins and Mark Alarie in 1982-83. He was a two-time NABC All-District selection and a five-time C-USA Player of the Week, including when he poured in a career-best 45 points in a win at Marshall as a sophomore.
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