Morant leads off 2024 Hall of Fame Class
MBB: Morant led Murray State to a pair of OVC championships in 2018 and 2019
Murray State began dropping names for their 2024 Hall of Fame class on Saturday, and the first name is as big as it gets — Ja Morant.
Five years after his Racer career came to a close following a second-straight trip to the NCAA Tournament, Morant will be enshrined into the Hall of Fame later this summer.
Morant was nothing short of a basketball supernova during his two-year playing career at Murray State. In just his 12th-game in a Racer uniform, Morant recorded just the second triple-double in modern Murray State history. He’d go on to set the program record with four triple-doubles, highlighted by his 17 points, 11 rebounds and 16 assists in the opening round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament against Marquette.
In just two seasons at Murray State, Morant set the program record for career assists, and is 31st on the Racers all-time scoring list with 1,213 points. In 2018-19, Morant became the first player since assists became an official statistic in 1982-83 to ever average at least 20 points and ten assists for an entire season. That year, Morant also became the school’s first-ever consensus All-American.
After leading Murray State to back-to-back Ohio Valley Conference regular-season and tournament championships in 2018 and 2019, Morant was taken second overall in the 2019 NBA Draft by the Memphis Grizzlies. He would go on to win the 2019-20 NBA Rookie of the Year award.
The other Hall of Fame inductees and the date of the ceremony will be announced in the coming weeks.