The Utes have quietly added a new name to the roster: Austin Montgomery.
The 6-foot-9 power forward will be a walk-on on academic scholarship, but he did make a hard choice two years back when he committed: the Runnin' Utes … or MIT?
Utah hopes that Montgomery's decision will be its gain when the Gainsville, Ga., native returns from an LDS Church mission on July 8 and comes to campus in July. He takes the roster spot of Eris Winder, who is leaving the Utes in the hopes of obtaining a scholarship elsewhere.
Montgomery has spent the last two years in Texas, but he was a standout at Lakeview Academy where he averaged 20.