Despite everything the California Golden Bears basketball program lost through the transfer portal this offseason, it gained a quality graduate transfer in Kareem South. The guard from Toronto was ranked among the best prospects in Canada growing up, leading him to play for a year at the Kiski School in Pennsylvania. His coach’s actual name: Steve Scorpion.
After graduating high school, South would become a standout for head coach Willis Wilson with the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders despite a 2015–16 season that ended prematurely due to injury. Wearing jersey number 11, he became a mainstay for a 24–12 squad in 2016–17 that rode a nine-game winning streak to the CIT Tournament final.