Western Kentucky men’s basketball signee Dayvion McKnight received his state’s top high school hoops honor Sunday, as the guard was named 2020 Kentucky Mr. Basketball.
McKnight received the award, given to the state’s top senior, from the Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation during a virtual ceremony Sunday evening.
“It means a lot,” McKnight said on the broadcast. “Coming from a small town, we don’t really have players to do what I’ve been doing. I’m the third ever to win Mr. Basketball out of Shelby County, so it means a lot.”
McKnight, a 6-foot-2 guard out of Collins High School in Shelbyville, is the ninth Kentucky Mr.