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2014-15 (FRESHMAN): Averaged 0.9 points while playing in 7.7 minutes per game… Scored a career-best eight points in the season-opener against Flagler (11/14)… Grabbed a career-best seven rebounds at Tulsa (1/31).

2013-14: Did not play... Took a redshirt season to help recovery from a ruptured Achilles suffered during his senior year of high school… Arrived at USF weighing 290 pounds, over his desired playing weight

At Orlando Christian Prep: Averaged 11 points and 7.6 rebounds while shooting 55 percent from the field as a junior at Orlando Christian Prep, and helped lead OCP to the 2012 Class 2A state title while picking up first-team all-state honors. As a senior, Clayton averaged 7.5 rebounds per game.

PERSONAL: Born Nov. 30, 1993… Son of Lisa Johnson and Earl Clayton… Youngest of 11 brothers… Originally from New Orleans in a neighborhood called Hollygrove, La., also home to rapper Lil Wayne… Family relocated to Orlando following the flood caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005… Full name is Dre’Kalo Clayton… Named Dre’Kalo after his aunt’s friend Kalo, who was good at sports and died before he was born… Majoring in communications