LCSC men’s basketball team signs Mikel Watson

5-22-07 

Lewis-Clark State College men’s basketball coach Tim Walker has announced that 6-foot-2 guard Mikel Watson will transfer from Utah State University and play for the Warriors next season. 

Watson, who will be a senior, played in 15 games for the Aggies last year, and started two. Before suffering an injury, he averaged 7.1 points and nearly 2.0 rebounds a game as the Aggies went 23-12 overall. He was fourth on the team in 3-pointers and also had 43 assists and 15 steals. 

Watson is from Oceanside, Calif., and originally signed with the University of Wyoming out of high school. He played in 28 games and started nine as a true freshman during the 2003-04 season. He averaged 5.9 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. He scored a season-high 21 points in the final game of the season against Brigham Young in the first round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament. He started five of the final six games of the season and average 12.5 points and 3.3 rebounds. 

He then attended Saddleback Junior College where he earned first team all-Orange Empire Conference honors and helped the Gauchos to a 28-3 mark. He averaged 14.4 points, 3.1 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.6 steals per game. He then sat out the 2006 season before playing for the Aggies last season. 

The Warriors are the defending Frontier Conference regular-season and tournament champions.