Just hours after Dan Skillings Jr. announced his intentions to enter the transfer portal, Cincinnati basketball is bracing for another exit from the program.
Josh Reed, a fellow member of Wes Miller’s 2022 class, will join Skillings in leaving the Bearcats’ program after the 2024-25 season.
Over the past three seasons, Reed appeared in 97 games and averaged 4.8 points per contest but was better-known for his abilities as a defender.
This exit stings for a couple of reasons, the first being that it’s a rather surprising move for the three-year vet. Plus, it feels as if he was finally rounding into the player that Bearcat fans had been hoping he’d be.
The back half of the 2024-25 season saw Reed flourish on the offensive side of the ball, averaging 8.3 points per game over the final 13 games of the year. His 12 points against BYU on February 8 were a career-high, but he would follow that up with a 13-point performance against Utah three days later and another against TCU two weeks later.
Against Oklahoma State in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, Reed poured in 19 points to go along with four rebounds, two assists, and a steal.
The Bearcats were 19-16 (7-13) in 2024-25 and just missed the NCAA Tournament. They defeated DePaul in the First Round of the Crown Tournament but fell to UCF in the second round.
