Damari Monsanto Season 2024-25

Prior to UTSA
A high-output scoring guard from Pembroke Pines, Fla., Monsanto comes to San Antonio as a three-star transfer (247Sports, Rivals) after playing 55 games for Wake Forest. Although his 2023-24 season was cut short after 11 games with averages of 5.1 ppg and 2.2 rpg, Monsanto had a breakout 2022-23 campaign for the Demon Deacons in which he was second on the team with a 13.3 ppg scoring rate on 42.5 percent shooting from the floor and a team-best 40.5 percent from the perimeter – along with 3.6 rpg. Shooting the third-best three-point rate in the league, Monsanto led the ACC with an average of 3.2 threes per game on a team-high 87 made threes – the sixth-highest total in Wake history. Getting hot against ACC competition via a 14.8 ppg conference average, Monsanto lit Notre Dame for 28 points with eight three-pointers and dropped 25 points against No. 10 Virginia Tech, highlighting 15 games in double-figures, six games of at least 20 points and totals of five or more made threes on six occasions. Before coming to Winston-Salem, Monsanto played one full season at East Tennessee State (ETSU), he was the 2020-21 SoCon Freshman of the Year and third-team All-Conference after starting 20-of-25 games with averages of 11.8 points and 7.3 rebounds in 27.4 minutes per game. One of the best freshmen in the nation, Monsanto was a finalist for the Kyle Macy Award, earned All-District honors and was named to the All-Freshman Second Team; both by Basketball Times. Playing his prep ball at Western High School in Davie, Fla., Monsanto earned First Team All-State 9A and was the South Florida Sun Sentinel Class 9A-7A Broward County Player of the Year after registering 28.4 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.0 steals and 2.9 assists per game and leading his squad to the state regional semifinal. Coming out of high school, Monsanto was rated a three-star prospect by Rivals, ESPN and 247Sports, ranked as the nation’s 56th-best shooting guard and the No. 17 player in Florida by ESPN.