Kansas basketball player Arterio Morris: What we know about his college career
LAWRENCE — Former Kansas basketball player Arterio Morris is facing a rape charge, following his arrest Friday morning.
Morris transferred earlier this year to play for the Jayhawks after starting his college career at Texas. He had participated in Kansas’ trip to Puerto Rico in August. Now he is in legal trouble again, and no longer a member of the program following head coach Bill Self’s announcement that Morris had been dismissed.
Here’s what we know about Morris:
Arterio Morris was arrested and charged with rape
Morris was arrested a little after 7 a.m. Friday and charged with rape, a severity level 1 personal felony, for an incident that allegedly occurred in late August in Douglas County. He was released on a $75,000 surety bond.
According to the complaint document, he could face “a minimum of 147 months to a maximum of 653 months in prison and/or a fine of up to $300,000 and 36 months of post-release supervision” as a penalty.
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Arterio Morris recently pled no contest in a different case
In June 2022, prior to the start of his freshman season at Texas, Morris was arrested in Texas and charged with committing assault that caused bodily injury to a family member — a Class A misdemeanor. The case was not resolved until recently, well after he had transferred to Kansas and not long before a jury trial was scheduled to start in early October.
Morris pled no contest to a Class C misdemeanor for assault and was fined $362, while the state abandoned a finding of family violence.
Arterio Morris transferred to Kansas basketball from Texas
Morris appeared in all 38 games off the bench for Texas during the 2022-23 season, averaging 11.7 minutes, 4.6 points and 1.4 rebounds per game for a team that won the Big 12 Conference tournament title and reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament.
Following the season he announced he would transfer and decided to play his sophomore year with the Kansas Jayhawks.
Arterio Morris arrived at Texas as a heralded prospect
Morris was a 247Sports Composite five-star prospect coming out of Kimball High School in Dallas. In addition to the Texas Longhorns, he had a number of high-profile schools interested in signing him.
He was the top-ranked point guard in the 2022 recruiting class and 16th-ranked player overall.
Jordan Guskey covers the University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association’s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas for 2022. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.
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