Editing Slick Watts (section)

==College career==
Watts attended [[Grand View Junior College]] before transferring to [[Xavier University of Louisiana]] in 1970, where he played college basketball for three years under coach [[Bob Hopkins]], and alongside future [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] player [[Bruce Seals]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 1, 1970 |title='Slick' Picked Player of the Month |pages=8 |work=Xavier Herald Newspaper |url= https://xula.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16948coll14/id/4429/rec/2 |via= oclc.org| access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref>

For the 1971{{ndash}}72 season, Watts and Seals led the [[Xavier Gold Rush basketball|Gold Rush]] to its first NAIA District 30 Men's Basketball championship, defeating [[Nicholls Colonels men's basketball|Nicholls State]] 85–83, before losing to [[Westmont Warriors|Westmont]] in the [[1972 NAIA basketball tournament]] semi-finals 71–59.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=NAIA District 30 Men's Basketball – Varsity Pride|url=http://www.jonfmorse.com/wiki/index.php?title=NAIA_District_30_Men%27s_Basketball|access-date=January 14, 2021|website= jonfmorse.com}}</ref>

During his final season, Watts led the Gold Rush to their second consecutive [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics|NAIA]] District 30 Championship, defeating [[Dillard Bleu Devils and Lady Bleu Devils|Dillard]] 101–80.<ref name=":0" /> In the [[1973 NAIA basketball tournament]] Watts and his teammates upset [[Sam Houston State Bearkats men's basketball|Sam Houston State]], 67–60, in the second round. At the time, the Bearkats were ranked first in the country in all college division polls and had gone 34 games, over a two-year period, without a loss. Xavier eventually lost in the semi-finals to [[Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks men's basketball|Maryland-Eastern Shore]] 87–80.