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LSU Basketball Signs Five-Star Point Guard Reese Alston
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USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
BATON ROUGE – LSU Coach Will Wade announced on Wednesday that signing papers had been received from five-star point guard Reese Alston.
The 6-3 Alston is from Houston, Texas, and plays for Second Baptist School. Alston helped lead Second Baptist to back-to-back Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools Class 5A titles and averaged 22.2 points, 5.3 assists, 3.9 rebounds, and 2.7 steals a game last season.
“We are very pleased to have Reese Alston joining our basketball program,” said Coach Wade. “He is a dynamic playmaker with speed and superior ball-handling skills. He can score in transition and finish at the rim. He is good at defending and will be able to step in and help us from day one.”
Reese Alston’s father, Rafer Alston, is a former NBA player who was known as “Skip 2 My Lou” during his playing days. He gained fame as a streetball star in New York City before playing 11 seasons in the NBA from 1999 to 2010. He appeared in 671 regular-season games, averaging 10.1 points and 4.8 assists per game.
His mother, Ashley, has Louisiana ties as she is originally from New Orleans.
Reese, nicknamed “Lil Skip,” won the 2026 Guy V. Lewis Award as the top basketball player in the Houston area and was the MVP of the PRO 16 League.
He is ranked No. 9 in the nation by both 247Sports and Rivals and No. 13 by ESPN.
He was one of 19 finalists earlier this year for the 2026 USA Men’s U18 National Team Training Camp and, in October, participated in the USA Men’s Junior National Team minicamp in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
(Release via LSU Athletics)
The 6-3 Alston is from Houston, Texas, and plays for Second Baptist School. Alston helped lead Second Baptist to back-to-back Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools Class 5A titles and averaged 22.2 points, 5.3 assists, 3.9 rebounds, and 2.7 steals a game last season.
“We are very pleased to have Reese Alston joining our basketball program,” said Coach Wade. “He is a dynamic playmaker with speed and superior ball-handling skills. He can score in transition and finish at the rim. He is good at defending and will be able to step in and help us from day one.”
Reese Alston’s father, Rafer Alston, is a former NBA player who was known as “Skip 2 My Lou” during his playing days. He gained fame as a streetball star in New York City before playing 11 seasons in the NBA from 1999 to 2010. He appeared in 671 regular-season games, averaging 10.1 points and 4.8 assists per game.
His mother, Ashley, has Louisiana ties as she is originally from New Orleans.
Reese, nicknamed “Lil Skip,” won the 2026 Guy V. Lewis Award as the top basketball player in the Houston area and was the MVP of the PRO 16 League.
He is ranked No. 9 in the nation by both 247Sports and Rivals and No. 13 by ESPN.
He was one of 19 finalists earlier this year for the 2026 USA Men’s U18 National Team Training Camp and, in October, participated in the USA Men’s Junior National Team minicamp in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
(Release via LSU Athletics)
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