Kerr Kriisa, the former Kentucky guard who played six college seasons across four programs, was arrested by the FBI this weekend in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. The investigation centers on his time at West Virginia during the 2023-24 season, according to Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.
The 25-year-old is being held at the Fayette County Detention Center and is expected to be extradited to West Virginia for a court hearing scheduled next week. Details on the alleged scheme remain limited, but the case reportedly involves fraud during his lone season with the Mountaineers.
This is a stunning fall for a player who just wrapped up a winding college career in March. Kriisa had already signed to play for La Familia, Kentucky’s alumni team in The Basketball Tournament later this month. He’d also inked a deal with a professional club in his native Estonia before news of the arrest broke.
The College Career That Led Here
Kriisa spent the 2024-25 season at Kentucky, appearing in nine games before a foot injury ended his year early. He averaged 4.4 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, dishing a career-high 12 dimes against Bucknell and scoring his 1,000th career point in what turned out to be his final game as a Wildcat. But his path to Lexington was anything but straight.
Before Kentucky, he played at West Virginia in 2023-24 and posted a career-best 11.0 points per game. That season also included a nine-game suspension for receiving impermissible benefits while at Arizona, where he’d spent three seasons from 2020-23. As a junior with the Wildcats, he started 34 of 35 games, led the Pac-12 with 5.14 assists per game, and tied for the team lead with 83 made three-pointers.
His final college stop was Cincinnati, where he averaged 5.8 points and 3.0 assists in 19 games. Across 127 career college starts, Kriisa put up 8.8 points, 2.2 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 28.1 minutes per game.
What Happens Next
Right now, Kriisa sits in a Kentucky jail awaiting extradition. The FBI hasn’t released additional details about the fraud allegations. For a player who bounced from Arizona to West Virginia to Kentucky to Cincinnati — always with that trademark flair, those deep threes and the occasional suspension — this is a much darker kind of headline than anyone expected.
His future in pro basketball is now very much in question.
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