Carrington Selected No. 14 Overall in 2024 NBA Draft
6/26/2024 9:55:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Standout Guard Heading to Washington via trade with Portland
PITTSBURGH – Pitt guard Carlton Carrington was selected with the No. 14 pick by the Washington Wizards via a proposed trade with Portland in the 2024 NBA Draft Wednesday evening at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. The Baltimore, Md., native is the seventh Panther to be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft and the first draftee directly out of Pitt since Lamar Patterson was taken in the second round of the 2014 draft.
Carrington, Pitt's fourth NBA Lottery selection and the first 2024 draft selection out of the ACC, is the first Panther to be selected by the Washington franchise.
Carrington was the only freshman in the NCAA to average at least 13.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game this past season, while helping lead the Panthers to a 22-11 record overall and a fourth-place finish in the ACC. He finished his first year at Pitt averaging 13.8 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game, while making 65 three-point field goals. Carrington scored in double figures 23 times, including five games with 20 or more points scored. He opened his career with a triple-double (18 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists) against NC A&T and closed the season with a 24-point effort against No. 4 North Carolina in the ACC Tournament Semifinals.
Seven of the past eight freshmen to average at least 13.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game have been selected in the top 15 of their respective NBA Drafts. Each of the past nine freshmen to post those numbers went on to become NBA First Round Draft picks with seven of the nine being selected among the first six picks in the draft.
Pitt has now had 29 NBA Draft picks in program history, while head coach Jeff Capel has now mentored 28 draft picks, including 19 first round selections and 10 lottery picks, throughout his coaching career. Carrington is the first NBA Draft First Round selection directly out of Pitt since Steven Adams (2013). Cameron Johnson, a Pitt grad who concluded his playing career at North Carolina, was taken in the first round of the 2019 draft.
Pitt – NBA Draft First Round Selections
1988 Charles Smith (Philadelphia 76ers – traded to Los Angeles Clippers)
Jerome Lane (Denver Nuggets)
1994 Eric Mobley (Milwaukee Bucks)
1999 Vonteego Cummings (Indiana Pacers – traded to Golden State Warriors)
2013 Steven Adams (Oklahoma City Thunder)
2019 Cameron Johnson (Minnesota Timberwolves – traded to Phoenix Suns)
*** Billy Knight (1974 – Indiana Pacers) and Mel Bennett (1975 - Virginia Squires) were first round selections in the ABA prior to its merger with the NBA.
Carrington in the Pitt Freshmen Record Books
- 456 points (2nd) … 13.8 ppg. (4th)
- 1,986 minutes played (1st) … 33.2 minutes per game (4th)
- 5 20+ point games (T-5th)
- 23 double-figure scoring games (T-5th)
- 159 field goals (T-3rd)
- 386 field goal attempts (1st)
- 65 three-point field goals (2nd)
- 202 three-point attempts (1st)
- 136 assists (4th) … 4.1 apg. (4th)
- 7 three-point field goals at Boston College (T-1st) … 27 points at Boston College (8th)
2024 Honors & Awards
- CollegeInsider.com Freshmen All-America
- Kyle Macy National Freshman of the Year Finalist (CollegeInsider.com)
- ACC All-Tournament Team (2nd)
- Honorable Mention All-ACC
- ACC All-Rookie Team
- 5x ACC Rookie of the Week selection (Nov. 13, Nov. 20, Dec. 11, Jan. 8, March 11)
- 2x Dick Vitale Diaper Dandy of the Week (Dec. 11, March 11)
