PRIOR TO UTSA (Summary)
Has played in 86 career games with 25 starts averaging 5.9 points and 2.0 rebounds overall ... heading into 2026-27, has recorded 506 career points, 174 rebounds, 84 assists, and 77 steals for his career.
Junior at Maryland (2025-26)
Played in 32 games with eight starts averaging 17.1 minutes per game … finished the year averaging 4.3 points and 1.8 rebounds per game … shot .338 (46-of-136) from the floor and .293 (29-of-99) from beyond the arc … also had 21 assists, 24 steals, and eight blocks on the year … scored a season-high 18 points (5-of-6 FG) in the win at Marquette (11/15) - knocking down three triples and also going 5-of-6 at the free throw line ... went 4-of-8 from deep to score 17 points against Old Dominion (12/28) ... posted his second consecutive game in double-figures with 11 points (three three-pointers) against Oregon (1/2) ... contributed six points, four rebounds, one assist, one steal, and one block against Coppin State (11/3) ... shot 4-for-6 from the three-point line, posting 12 points, one rebound, and one steal against Iowa in the second round of the B1G Ten Tournament (3/11).
Sophomore at Washington State (2024-25)
Before heading to the Big Ten, played in 23 games with 17 starts for the Washington State Cougars in 2024-25, averaging 11.0 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists for the year, … had eight double-figure scoring performances with three 20-point games with a season-high, including a career-high 22 against Eastern Washington (11/21) … also scored 20 points against Portland State (11/4) and Missouri State (12/14) ... recorded a season-high seven rebounds twice, versus Boise State (12/7) and Missouri State (12/14) … entered the season as the only returning letterwinner from the 2023-24 Washington State roster that reached the 2023-24 NCAA Tournament Second Round … missed 10 games due to injury.
Freshman at Washington State (2023-24)
Played in 31 games as a rookie for a Washington State team that advanced in the NCAA Tournament and finished with a 25-10 record ... averaged 3.7 points, 0.9 rebounds, 0.5 assists and 0.5 steals ... shot 40-of-92 from the field, posting a .435 field goal percentage ... logged a season-high 18 points against USC (2/29), following up with 15 points against Washington (3/7), hitting 3-of-7 from the perimeter.
High School and Post Grad
Elected to complete a post-graduate year at South Kent School in Connecticut ... despite battling injury, the team went on to win the New England Prep School AAA Championship, earning Watts and his teammates a berth in the 2023 National Prep Championships ... played four years of basketball at West Seattle High School, twice picking up All-Metro League honors during his junior and senior seasons.
Personal
Born October 15 ... son of Donald Watts and Autumn Nelson ... originally from West Seattle, Washington, he grew up in the Seattle basketball scene, training alongside the likes of Markelle Fultz, Isaiah Thomas, Jamal Crawford, Brandon Roy and Nate Robinson ... grandfather Slick Watts is a former NBA Seattle SuperSonics guard (1973-1978), who reached the 1978 NBA Finals for the first time in the organization’s history, while his father Donald Watts led the Pac-10 in three-point shooting (1998-99) as a Washington standout guard, leading the Huskies to consecutive NCAA appearances, including the Sweet 16 in 1997-98.