NCAA Basketball: 10 best players from state of Minnesota of last decade
By Joey Loose
10. Reid Travis – Stanford / Kentucky
A 6’8 forward originally from Minneapolis, Travis was a 4-star recruit, among the top 50 prospects in the class of 2014. This talented big opted for the west coast, committing to Stanford and spending the next four years with the Cardinal. A leg injury forced him to redshirt his sophomore season, and Travis used that bonus year of eligibility to transfer to Kentucky for his final season.
Across his first season and a half, Travis was developing into a dependable weapon, but he was one of the league’s best forwards in his final two years with the Cardinal. He averaged 19.5 points and 8.7 rebounds per game as a redshirt junior, scoring a career-high 33 points over Washington. An NIT champion as a freshman, he experienced a real postseason run in that year with Kentucky, averaging 11.2 points per game and helping the Wildcats to the Elite Eight, including 18 points in their opening round victory.
Travis was twice named First Team All-Pac-12 and was certainly one of the best weapons in that conference during Jerod Haase’s first two seasons as head coach. He was a high-volume scorer who grabbed a ton of boards, and he was a useful tool for John Calipari during that final collegiate season with the Wildcats. Travis was not drafted in 2019 and has spent the last three years playing professional ball overseas, most recently over in Japan.