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Glynn Watson Jr.

Glynn Watson Jr (born March 9, 1997) is an American college basketball player for the Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team. A consensus top 100 recruit out of high school, Watson Jr. became Nebraska's first ever four-star signee.

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High school career
Watson Jr. played for legendary high school coach Gene Pingatore at Saint Joseph High School in Westchester, IL. As a senior, he averaged 15.5 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists, and 3.0 steals per game, and led Saint Joseph HS to a 29-6 record and the school's second state title. In all, Watson Jr. had nine games of at least 20 points as a senior. For his efforts, he earned first-team all-state honors from the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association and Champaign News-Gazette in 2015. In addition, Watson Jr. was a second-team choice by the Chicago Tribune (all classes) and Chicago Sun Times (Class 3A). Watson Jr. played for llinois Wolves AAU program

A consensus four-star prospect, Watson Jr. was ranked among the top 100 players in the country by every recruiting service and was ranked as high as 63rd nationally by Scout.com, which also ranked him as the sixth-best point guard in the class of 2015, and No. 66 on ESPN.com’s top-100 seniors. He received offers from Creighton, DePaul, Iowa, Marquette, Maryland, Nebraska, Penn State, Purdue, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Watson Jr. committed to Nebraska on August 31, 2014, just two days after taking his first and only official visit to Nebraska.

Freshman year
Watson Jr. made his first career start on December 22, 2015 against Prairie View A&M.

Personal
Glynn Watson Jr. is the son of Sabrina Watson and Glynn Watson Sr. He has two older brothers (DeAndre and Demetri McCamey) and two sisters (Kiera and Monique). Older bothers DeAndre and Demetri both also starred at St. Joseph High School. Demetri was a three-time All-Big Ten pick at the University of Illinois, earning first-team honors in 2009-10.

St. Joseph High School has the distinction of being the only school which has produced a pair of 1,000-point scorers for Nebraska, as Clifford Scales (1988-91) and Carl Hayes (1990-92) both played for Pingatore, as he has spent the last 47 years as head coach. Scales and Hayes both scored 1,136 points at Nebraska and played major roles in the Huskers’ school-record 26-win team in 1990-91.