FBI agents arrested Kerr Kriisa in connection with an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud scheme, and he is scheduled to be extradited to West Virginia next week. The 25-year-old former Cincinnati point guard now faces a court hearing that moves the case into its next phase.
Kriisa and West Virginia
The arrest ties the case to his time at West Virginia in 2023-24. That detail matters because it places the alleged scheme inside the period when Kriisa was still in the college game, before his move through Cincinnati and into his next career stop.
He had averaged 5.8 points and 3.0 assists in 19 games this past season at Cincinnati. Cincinnati brought him in from the transfer portal last spring, and he opened as a key starter before injuries pushed him out of the rotation.
Estonia and The Basketball Tournament
Kriisa had signed with Tartu Ülikool Maks & Moorits last week for the upcoming campaign and was slated to play in The Basketball Tournament this month. The arrest stops that plan immediately and leaves his basketball schedule in limbo while the criminal case moves forward.
His background stretches well beyond one season at Cincinnati. He played six seasons in the college basketball circuit and also spent time in the Kaunas Žalgiris system in Lithuania and in Germany for Brose Bamberg and Bayreuth Young Pikes.
At 2025 Big 12 Media Days, Kriisa said, “College basketball is the best thing in the world,” and added, “You can't compare college basketball to your league to the NBA, because the community and everything about it is so special. Everybody has their own mascot. Everybody takes pride. And it's just the best. It really is like it makes me, like, smiley; it's a super cool thing.” Now the question is how much of that basketball path survives the fraud case moving toward West Virginia next week.
