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2025-26 Men's Basketball Roster

21 Evan Nelson

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 175

Biography

Prior to Arizona 
  • Spent four years on the men’s basketball team at Harvard; missed the 2023-24 season due to injury 
  • Appeared in 68 games for the Crimson, making 51 starts 
  • For his career, has averaged 8.2 points, 2.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists and shot 39.8% from the 3-point line 
  • Scored a career-high 23 points against Elon on Nov. 13, 2022 
  • Was team captain for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons 
  • Earned a spot on the Allstate NACDA Good Works Team 
  • Received CSC Academic All-District and Academic All-Ivy League honors following the 2024-25 season 
  • Ranked fourth in the Ivy League in steals (1.4) and 12th in assists (2.9) during his senior year 
  • Spent the Fall 2020 semester at Harvard but returned to Tucson for the Spring 2021 semester after the Ivy League did not participate in the 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  
  • Returned to Harvard for the Spring 2022 semester, joining the team midway through the 2021-22 season 
  • A native Tucsonan, he began his high school career at Mountain View High School as a freshman before transferring to Salpointe Catholic High School his final three years 
  • Led Salpointe to its first-ever state championship as a senior in 2019-20 
  • Scored more than 1,500 points at Salpointe and helped his team to a 69-6 record in his three seasons 
  • Has volunteered with the Boys & Girls Club of Tucson and Habitat for Humanity 

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