Lynn WorthyThe Utah men’s basketball team has announced that 6-foot-5, 190-pound shooting guard Devante Doutrive has joined the program with intentions of sitting out the 2017-18 season as a redshirt.
Doutrive, a resident of Woodland Hills, Calif., averaged 22.3 points, 8.7 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 2.7 steals per game last winter while guiding Birmingham High School to a Los Angeles city championship. Doutrive was the L.A. City Section Player of the Year.
He began his high school career in Alaska at West Anchorage High School. He was a second-team all-state selection in Alaksa in the winter of 2014-15.
Scout.com ranked Doutrive a four-star recruit and the 67th-best prospect nationally in the 2017 graduating class, while 247Sports ranked him a three-star recruit.
“We are very excited to welcome Davante to our basketball program,” Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak said in a news release. “He is very athletic and has a great knack for putting points on the board. He is also a tremendous passer and will fit into our system, quite well. He will be a great addition to the team and we look forward to working with him when fall workouts begin.”
As a junior, Doutrive averaged 23.6 points, 9.3 rebounds 2.7 assists and 1.7 steals per game.
Doutrive’s addition comes on the heels of junior college guard Kolbe Caldwell joining the Utes in August.
Lynn began working at The Salt Lake Tribune in 2017 after working for a trio of newspapers on the East Coast. He has covered Utah State and the Salt Lake Bees, and now covers University of Utah sports.