Trevan Leonhardt Signs with Nebraska
Nebraska added a significant piece for its backcourt with signing of Utah Valley transfer Trevan Leonhardt (pronounced TREV-uhn LIN-hart) on Wednesday.
A 6-foot-5, 175-pound guard from Kaysville, Utah, Leonhardt was a two-year starter at Utah Valley, leading the Wolverines to 50 wins and consecutive Western Athletic Conference regular-season championships in 2025 and 2026. In three seasons, he set Utah Valley’s career record in steals (159) and ranked second in assists (419). He has one year of eligibility remaining.
“We are excited to add Trevan to our program, as we thought he was one of the best guards in the transfer portal.” Nebraska Coach Fred Hoiberg said. “He is a bigger guard who provides us with positional size in the backcourt. Trevan led the WAC in both assists and assist-to-turnover ratio the last two seasons which shows his ability to run an offense and facilitate. This season, he emerged as more of a scorer, averaging double figures and shot over 50 percent from the field and 37 percent from 3-point range. Defensively, he possesses the size to guard multiple positions and is very active in getting deflections and steals, which is important in our system.”
Leonhardt started all 34 games, averaging 11.9 points per game on 51 percent shooting along with 6.0 assists, 5.4 rebounds and 2.1 steals per game in helping Utah Valley to a 25-9 record and an NIT appearance in 2025-26. A first-team All-WAC performer, he ranked in the top 25 nationally in both assists per game (23rd) and steals per game (18th), as Utah Valley won the regular-season WAC title with a 14-4 mark. He led the WAC in both assists per game and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.20-to-1) and ranked among the conference leaders in minutes (34.4, second), steals (third), rebounds (11th) and points (14th) per game. Leonhardt, who was also named to the all-defensive team, posted 21 double-figure games, including a trio of 20-point efforts. He posted a trio of double-doubles, including two games with double-figures in both points and assists, as his 205 assists broke his own school mark set the previous season. Leonhardt was one of three players nationally who averaged 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game in 2025-26, a list that also included NU senior guard Sam Hoiberg.
He moved into the starting lineup as a sophomore, helping Utah Valley to a 25-9 record, an outright WAC regular season and an NIT appearance. He averaged 5.8 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 5.2 assists per game in 34 starts, as he ranked fifth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.36-to-1). He set a school record with 178 assists and ranked 45th nationally in assists per game. He had a season-high 14 points against Utah Tech, one of six double-digit efforts on the season. He had 13 points, eight rebounds and seven assists against Samford and 10 points and six assists in the WAC title game loss to Grand Canyon. He played in all 32 games as a redshirt freshman, averaging 2.1 points 1.8 rebounds 1.1 assists per game while shooting 52 percent from the field.
Leonhardt was a first-team all-state performer at Davis High School, averaging 11.2 points, 5.7 assists, 5.0 rebounds, and 3.9 steals per game as a senior. He led his team to the title game of the 2020 6A Utah State
High School Championship and a state semifinal appearance in 2019. In 2020, Leonhardt left basketball for two years to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spending time in Scottsdale, Arizona due to COVID travel restrictions, and eventually in Chile before completing his mission. During that time, he did not play organized basketball.