Charleston Southern University Athletics

2024-2025 at Charleston Southern: Won the 2024-2025 Big South Player of the Year Award … Kelly is the fourth player in CSU history to win the Player of the Year award ... First CSU Men's Basketball player to win the POTY award since Saah Nimley (2015) ... Played in 31 games on the season starting in 30 of them … Finished the year all over national leader boards, ranking 9th in points per game (20.5), 20th in minutes per game (36.5), 29th in made field goals (234), 38th in rebounds per game (8.9), 39th in double-doubles (10), and T-46th in made free throws (149) … Scored 636 total points (ranked 1st on the team) including a career-high 34 on the road against North Alabama (Dec. 19) … Hauled in 276 rebounds (ranked 1st on the team) including a career-high 17 on the road against USC Upstate on Jan. 29 (the most single-game rebounds by an individual CSU player since ####) …  Scored in double-figures in 29 of the 31 games he appeared in ... Recorded 10+ rebounds in 11 contests ... Earned the Big South Player of the Week Award on four separate occasions … Was selected to participate in the 2025 Reese’s College All-Star Game held in San Antonio, Texas as part of the year’s Final Four festivities … Was named to the NABC All-South Atlantic Division’s First-Team (one of only two Big South players selected) … Was a Preseason All-Big South First-Team selection.

2023-2024 at Charleston Southern: Selected Big South All-Conference Honorable Mention ... Led the Big South in double doubles with nine of the season, tied for 72nd nationally in the category ... Finished the year with a 14.4/7.6 points and rebounds average per game with them being 13.6/6.7 in conference play ... His rebounding numbers were 4th overall on the year and 5th in league action while his scoring totals were 8th and 16th ... Reached 1000 points and 500 rebounds for his career in the home finale against Radford (2/28) ... Scored in double figures in 25/30 games and had 10 or more rebounds in 10 games ... Had six games where he eclipsed 20 points and initially set his season-high in a near upset at High Point (1/20) as he finished with 23 ... In the season finale in the Quarterfinals of the Hercules Tires Big South Championships he set a career-high in scoring and three-point makes finishing with 26 points and a perfect 4-4 from deep to help #7 CSU nearly upset #2 UNC Asheville in the game ... Finished the year shooting 47.5% from the floor, 3rd best in the league and within the top 150 nationally. 

2022-2023 at Charleston Southern: Started in 29 contests on the season … Played in all 31 games being just one of the pair of CSU players to do so … Appeared in the third most minutes on the team with 819 total and 26.4 per game … Bumped his scoring and rebounding averages up from his freshman season to 10.7 and 5.5 per game during his second year … Ranked 6th in the league in offensive rebounds per game at 2.10 and 13th in rebounding at 5.48 … Had three double doubles on the year with them being at Tulane (11/17), vs USC Upstate (12/31) and at Longwood (1/28) … Was one of just ten players in the conference to collect that many of the year … Finished in double figures for scoring 19 times with his season-high of 18 coming at Gardner-Webb (12/29) in the team’s Big South opener. 

2021-2022 at Charleston Southern: Named to the Big South All-Freshman Team … Was just one of three Bucs to play in all 31 games during the season … Started in eight averaging 20.8 minutes played … Averaged 9.2 points and 4.0 rebounds per game overall and 10.8 points and 5.2 rebounds in league action … Shot a team-best 59.4% (111-187) from the floor and led the squad in total offensive rebound with 44 on the year … Over the final five games of the season, had 14.6 points and 7.0 rebounds a game … Notched his first career double-double at Winthrop (2/26) with 15 points and 13 boards, the latter being a career-high … Set his career-best in points in the regular season finale against UNC Asheville (3/2) with 24 going 11-14 from the field.

Prior to CSU: Comes to CSU via Grayson HS as he reunites with former HS teammate Travis Anderson…has averaged 11 points, 10 rebounds, 1.2 blocks and 2.7 assists per contest at Grayson HS entering his senior season.