Jarrett Culver
ABOUT JARRETT CULVER
2019 Big 12 Player of the Year at Texas Tech University who was selected sixth overall in the 2019 NBA Draft and became a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves . He helped lead Texas Tech to the 2019 NCAA championship game where they lost in overtime to the University of Virginia .
He played football and soccer growing up before switching gears toward basketball at Irons Middle School. He was a three-star recruit coming out of Coronado High School.
Other accolades at Texas Tech included Consensus second-team All-American and First-team All-Big 12, both in 2019.
He often played basketball in the driveway with his older brother, Trey. His father Hiawatha Culver Jr. was a pastor and his mother Regina was a director of a local Head Start.
In his freshman season at Texas Tech, he was a teammate of Zhaire Smith .
