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\n By Keith Taylor – Kentucky Today<\/strong>
\n
\n Jul. 01, 2025 | 12:50 PM
\n | LEXINGTON
\n \n <\/p>\n

Jaland Lowe knows all about Kentucky basketball and grew up following the Wildcats, along with college basketball\u2019s other Bluebloods, including Duke and Kansas.<\/p>\n

Following a stellar prep career in Missouri City, Tex., Lowe wasn\u2019t on the premier recruiting radar list and instead played his first two seasons at Pittsburgh. Throughout the process, Lowe never gave up hope of one day playing college basketball at an elite level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always saw blue growing up,\u201d Lowe said Monday. \u201cI was like, \u2018I gotta go to a blueblood school \u2014 this is what I’m gonna do.’ Then it never came at first. (I was) disappointed, but where I’m at now, it’s just full circle.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a topic Lowe and his father discuss regularly now that he\u2019s playing for the program of his dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201c(I had) a list at the top of my bed of eight schools I wanted to get offered from, and I got absolutely none, but Kentucky was one. I guess I can go back and cross it off now.”<\/p>\n

As he carved his career in the Lone Star state, Lowe kept tabs on former Kentucky guards Aaron and Andrew Harrison and DeAaron Fox.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is definitely amazing to be here,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw guys like Fox go here. I saw the Harrison twins go here \u2014 just Texas guys going to a blueblood school. I just always kept up with them and watched (the) bluebloods, especially Kentucky.”<\/p>\n

Lowe, a 6-foot-3, left-handed guard, averaged 16.8 points and 5.5 assists per game at Pitt last season and scored 20 or more points 10 times and had a career-high 28-point outing in a win over Ohio State.<\/p>\n

As indicated by his statistics, Lowe is known to score at will on the court, but added, \u201ca lot of people get it mixed up that Jaland Lowe just wants to shoot the ball and jack stuff up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love passing the ball,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve always told people that I get more joy from an assist than scoring a basket. My whole life, I’ve been a point guard. That’s what I am. I know how to score the ball at a high level, still, so people don’t get that twisted, but I love passing the ball, and that’s always been natural for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowe described his demeanor on the court as \u201ca cool, calm, collected playmaker\u201d who wants to \u201cmake his teammates better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to really tap in this year and just be able to do everything at a very high level, play defensive defense at a high level, distribute at a high level,\u201d he said. \u201cI definitely want to get that up a lot more, and then, you know, just be a really good leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once he met with Kentucky coach Mark Pope in Minnesota, it didn\u2019t take much for the Kentucky coach to convince Lowe to switch gears and change directions. The conversation last spring came even as Lowe pondered entering the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting on the Kentucky name \u2014 it’s just, it’s second-to-none,\u201d Lowe said. \u201cEverybody’s been amazing so far. I have no complaints with anything. … It\u2019s been everything I always wanted and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jaland Lowe talked to reporters during a press conference Monday at Memorial Coliseum. (Keith Taylor\/Kentucky Today)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Keith Taylor – Kentucky Today Jul. 01, 2025 | 12:50 PM | LEXINGTON Jaland…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,25991,24328,2879,357,18302,23071,15900,1317,1337,1338,50,1269,25988,5158,25989,62,314,67,132,68,989,313,25986,25987,25990],"class_list":{"0":"post-30475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bristol-broadcasting","10":"tag-carbondale","11":"tag-events","12":"tag-kentucky","13":"tag-living","14":"tag-mayfield","15":"tag-murray","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-ncaa-basketball","18":"tag-ncaabasketball","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-paducah","22":"tag-podcasts","23":"tag-southern-illinois","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-traffic","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-video","30":"tag-weather","31":"tag-west-kentucky-star","32":"tag-west-ky-star","33":"tag-wkyx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114779291270438447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}