Clemson in Contact with Big East Star Transfer
By: Gavin Oliver April 9, 2026

As Clemson does its transfer portal due diligence, the Tigers have reportedly been in contact with this all-conference guard.

Clemson is among the schools that Georgetown guard KJ Lewis has heard from since entering the portal, according to a report from Tobias Bass of The Athletic.

Lewis (6-4, 210) earned All-Big East Third Team honors as a junior in 2025-26, averaging 14.9 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 30.0 minutes per game. He shot 40.8 percent from the field and 30.5 percent from beyond the arc.

Clemson got a good look at Lewis early in the 2025-26 season, when the Tigers took on Georgetown at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, on Nov. 15. Lewis led Georgetown with 26 points that day, including 17 in the second half, lifting the Hoyas to a 79-74 victory. Those 26 points are just one shy of the career-high 27 points he netted against St. John’s on Dec. 31.

Before transferring to Georgetown, Lewis spent his first two college seasons at Arizona in 2023-24 and 2024-25.

He was named Pac-12 All-Freshman Honorable Mention in his first season with the Wildcats, when he appeared in all 36 games off the bench, playing an average of 18.3 minutes per game, while averaging 6.1 points, 3.1 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.1 steals. His 38 steals that season tied for the ninth-most by a freshman in Arizona history.

In 2024-25, Lewis appeared in all 37 games, including six starts. He averaged 10.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game and registered career highs in assists (106), blocks (31) and steals (49).

Lewis also played against Clemson as a freshman at Arizona in the 2023-24 postseason, when the Tigers beat the Wildcats in the Sweet 16. He posted seven points, two rebounds, one assist and one steal across 13 minutes in Arizona’s 77-72 loss.

Lewis was a four-star and top-100 recruit coming out of high school. The El Paso, Texas, native played his first three seasons of prep ball at Chapin High School in El Paso, before playing his senior year of high school at Duncanville (Texas) High School, where he averaged 16 points and nine rebounds per game.