OVERWORKED: A breakdown of Kentucky men’s basketball transfer Jaland Lowe’s 2024 season

Mark Pope and his staff landed four-star Pittsburgh transfer Jaland Lowe back in the beginning of April, filling the point guard void after fifth-year senior Lamont Butler exhausted his NCAA eligibility.

Lowe, a 6-foot-3, rising junior, had a breakout sophomore campaign in “the Burgh,” concluding the season with an average of 16.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game, all a notable increase in comparison to his freshman season as a Panther.

Lowe’s 2024-25 numbers show that out of all incoming Kentucky transfers, the ascending junior had the highest points per game average last season, with Arizona State transfer Jayden Quaintance sitting in second, finishing with an average of 9.4 points per game.

In addition to that, Lowe also averaged the most assists out of all incoming transfers and it wasn’t even close as Quaintance, again, was the nearest with 1.5 assists per game.

But with such a notable rise in numbers and a demanding statistical lead in comparison to the other incoming Cats, Lowe still has a big fret tattooed onto his name as he was worryingly inconsistent last season, something even Pope acknowledged in an interview that he did with Kentucky Sports Radio.

Jaland Lowe was elite in terms of raw stats. Points, assists, everything else he did in the game was really good,” Pope told KSR. “But he wasn’t a super-efficient player last year. Part of it was because he had to do a lot.”