Murray State University Athletics
MSU Basketball Signs Latreze Mushatt
5/6/2010 3:21:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Murray State Head Men's Basketball Coach Billy Kennedy announced the signing of Latreze Mushatt (pronounced MOO-Shot) who is transferring from Missouri-Kansas City.
Mushatt (6-5, 210), from Saginaw, Mich., will sit out the 2010-11 season and have two seasons to play for MSU beginning with the 2011-12 season.
"We are excited to be adding Latreze to our program," Kennedy said. "LaTreze will immediately help offset some of the toughness we lose with the departures of our three seniors B.J. Jenkins, Isacc Miles and Jeffery McClain."
Indeed Mushatt is a multi-talented wing that played in all 30 games with 28 starts in 2009-10 for UMKC where he was second on the team in scoring and rebounding, averaging 11.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. He also led UMKC in steals with 36 and was third in assists with 49. His .475 field goal percentage ranked him ninth in the Summit League.
"I like the fact that Latreze has proven his ability to score at the Division-I level," Kennedy added. "He will bring immediate toughness and maturity to our team."
In Mushatt's freshman season in 2008-09, he was one of three to play in all 31 games (he had 25 starts) and he scored 9.1 points per game and grabbed 5.5 rebounds per game.
His career-high scoring game came against Oakland (Feb. 13) with 21 points, while his best rebounding game was against Western Illinois (Jan. 2, 2009) with 11.
Mushatt played his prep basketball at Saginaw Arthur Hill High School where he was named to the Detroit Free Press All-Michigan Team and he was also an all-state selection by the Associated Press.
Mushatt was part of a state championship as a sophomore and ranked as the third best shooting guard in the state of Michigan by mihoops.com.
