Keyon Menifield Confirms His Husky Basketball Return

The Michigan product comes off an inspiring freshman season.

Dan Raley | Mar 20, 2023

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Keyon Menifield Jr. isn't the highest-scoring, tallest or most veteran player on the University of Washington basketball team.

The 6-foot-1 guard from Flint, Michigan, simply is the most exciting and entertaining guy on the roster.

On Monday, Menifield confirmed he's not giving up this role either, tweeting under his handle @TheCh0sen0ne he will be returning to the Huskies.

In his first season for Mike Hopkins, Menifield helped dull the pain of a 16-16 season by starting 21 of 32 games and finishing as the UW's second-leading scorer at 10 points per game.

Quicker than any guard in the conference, he was selected to the All-Pac-12 Freshman Team, this after claiming Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors on Feb. 20.

Menifield got his college basketball career off to a great start by scoring 21 and 26 points in his second and third games.

After hitting a rough patch, he had some of his better games against the top teams in the Pac-12. He scored 21 against Arizona and UCLA before going for a career-high 27 against Oregon. Against the Ducks, he dropped in 11 of 15 shots, grabbed 5 rebounds and had 7 assists in the Huskies' 72-71 overtime victory at Alaska Airlines Arena.

The UW is still waiting to hear from senior forward and leading scorer Keion Brooks and what he plans to do.

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Published Mar 20, 2023

DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.