Kentucky Wildcats guard Antonio Reeves was named one of five finalists for the Jerry West Award this week, which is given to the nation’s top shooting guard. The other finalists are Caleb Love of Arizona, Kevin McCullar Jr. of Kansas, Tyson Walker of Michigan State and RJ Davis of North Carolina.
Reeves is leading Kentucky and the SEC scoring 20 points per game while shooting 50.9% from the field and 44.2% from behind the three point line. Reeves is also averaging 4.1 rebounds per game and 1.7 assists.
The Senior has scored in double figures in all but one game this season for the Wildcats and has scored over 20 in 17 games. Reeves is only the second player in the Calipari era for Kentucky to score over 20 points in at least 20 games for Kentucky.
Reeves is playing some of his best basketball as of late, scoring at least 20 points in his last five games. Reeves has scored 1,068 points for the Wildcats in his two years here, just 49 points behind Oscar Tshiebwe for the second most in UK history in a two year span and just 145 points behind Bill Spivey for the most all time.
Kentucky is next in action on Wednesday, March 6 at 9 p.m. EST when they play Vanderbilt. The game will air nationally on SEC Network from Rupp Arena.
Fans can support Reeves by participating in fan voting, starting Friday on hoophallawards.com.