Malachi Smith

Position:
Guard
Height:
6-1
Weight:
180
Class:
Redshirt Senior
Hometown:
Bronx, N.Y.
Prev School:
Dayton
High School:
St. Raymond

Before UConn: Spent the last four years at Dayton, playing in 86 games with 77 starts...holds career averages of 9.3 points, 5.3 asissts and 3.3 rebounds per game...is a 41.1 percent career shooter from the floor and hits at 38.8 percent from 3-point range...as a redshirt junior in ’24-25, had his most productive season, starting 31 of 33 games played and posting a career-high 10.4 points with 5.3 assists in 27.8 minutes per game...ranked 14^th nationally in assist rate and at the conclusion of the season was 12^th among active players in career assists per game (5.3) and eighth among all D-1 players in career assist/turnover ratio (2.63)...as a freshman in ’21-22 he led the Flyers with 175 assists, second most for a rookie in program history...prior to matriculating at Dayton, was a standout at St. Raymond High School for Boys in the Bronx and led the program to the 2020 NYCHSAA AA regular season championship...was a First Team All-CHSAA pick and Third Team All-New York after his junior season before his senior year canceled by the pandemic...on the AAU circuit, Smith starred with the New York Gauchos.

Personal: Malachi Smith…born Nov. 6, 2002…son of Sharika and Elliot Rosado…has two brothers, including his older brother Scoochie who was an All-Conference player at Dayton.