On Friday afternoon, the Kentucky basketball team officially added another walk-on to its 2019-20 roster, and they didn’t even have to leave campus to get him.
Ben Jordan, a right-handed pitcher on the UK baseball team, was brought on to add depth in the Kentucky frontcourt. Jordan, a 6-foot-9, 250-pound redshirt sophomore, played both sports at West Carter High School in Olive Hill, Kentucky, where he was the team’s all-time leading rebounder and shot blocker.
“Like so many others in the state of Kentucky, basketball has been a part of my life since I was just a kid,” Jordan said in a release from UK.