Friar Basketball

Kadeem Batts

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A year ago, Kadeem Batts told anyone willing to listen that he was set for a breakout season. After a quiet sophomore year in which he averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds per game, Batts took his game to another level last season and was named the Big East’s Most Improved Player and Honorable Mention All Conference.

Batts averaged over 15 points and 7 rebounds last season, eclipsed the 20 point mark on eight occasions, and finished the year 14th in the Big East in points per game, 6th in rebounds, 3rd in offensive boards and 8th in field goal percentage.

By the final month of the season Batts was playing as well as any big man in the Big East, most notably with 27 points and 9 rebounds in the final regular season home game versus Seton Hall, 25 and 9 in a win over Cincinnati and 20 more in a trouncing of Notre Dame.

The 6’9 Batts could primed to be one of the top two or three big men in the Big East in 2013-14, which will be his final year in Providence.