The Kentucky basketball team announced the addition of another player to its roster today, a walk-on who previously played at UC Irvine.
Riley Welch has enrolled at UK and will be a junior for the 2019-20 season with immediate eligibility. He joins freshman Brennan Canada and sophomore Zan Payne as the three walk-ons on Coach Cal’s bench.
“I can’t even begin to describe how excited I am to be joining the greatest program in the history of college basketball,” Welch said in the press release from UK. “There is nothing better than University of Kentucky basketball and I still can’t believe how fortunate I am to be able to learn every day from a Hall of Fame coach as well as compete against the best players in the country day in and day out.