2025 Target List

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bleedingTNorange said:
This is Dubar’s 5th year of playing college basketball
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Then I’m in the dark as to exactly the rule change is about. The free COVID year is just now running out for current super seniors. Grads have been able to transfer for a 5th year for a while now. Maybe it’s to give the current 4th year seniors the same option as last years 4th year seniors had with the COVID option.

Then there’s also the JUCO thing. That rule change would have impacted Knecht.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Then I’m in the dark as to exactly the rule change is about. The free COVID year is just now running out for current super seniors. Grads have been able to transfer for a 5th year for a while now. Maybe it’s to give the current 4th year seniors the same option as last years 4th year seniors had with the COVID option.

Then there’s also the JUCO thing. That rule change would have impacted Knecht.
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If they had redshirted. The rule has been 5 years to play 4, so if you redshirted you could transfer and play a 5th year.

Then came the COVID stuff, those in school during that season got a free year essentially, that runs out this year, shouldn’t be any of those guys left after this season, see Zeigler, got 4 years to play and he’s exhausted all 4, no 5th year if he graduates and transfers, no COVID year because he wasn’t in college when that season happened, his 4 years are up.

So new rule proposal is 5 years of eligibility for everyone, likely no redshirting, no waivers, you have 5 years to play or not to play, but that’s all you get. Those who have played 5 years already this wouldn’t affect, see Chaz and Dubar, those who have only played 4 would in theory get another year, as well as every underclassmen also and freshman going forward.
 
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cwbytruckers said:
Can we please for once sign two Point Guards. So tired of not having a legitimate backup.
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I’ve thought the same before. Even with how great Ziegler is, he has some ugly stretches where it’d be really beneficial to have another point guard to put in to let him settle down. It would also free up our point guards to play more aggressive defense.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
If they had redshirted. The rule has been 5 years to play 4, so if you redshirted you could transfer and play a 5th year.

Then came the COVID stuff, those in school during that season got a free year essentially, that runs out this year, shouldn’t be any of those guys left after this season, see Zeigler, got 4 years to play and he’s exhausted all 4, no 5th year if he graduates and transfers, no COVID year because he wasn’t in college when that season happened, his 4 years are up.

So new rule proposal is 5 years of eligibility for everyone, likely no redshirting, no waivers, you have 5 years to play or not to play, but that’s all you get. Those who have played 5 years already this wouldn’t affect, see Chaz and Dubar, those who have only played 4 would in theory get another year, as well as every underclassmen also and freshman going forward.
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So Fulky could essentially come back for 8 more years
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
If they had redshirted. The rule has been 5 years to play 4, so if you redshirted you could transfer and play a 5th year.

Then came the COVID stuff, those in school during that season got a free year essentially, that runs out this year, shouldn’t be any of those guys left after this season, see Zeigler, got 4 years to play and he’s exhausted all 4, no 5th year if he graduates and transfers, no COVID year because he wasn’t in college when that season happened, his 4 years are up.

So new rule proposal is 5 years of eligibility for everyone, likely no redshirting, no waivers, you have 5 years to play or not to play, but that’s all you get. Those who have played 5 years already this wouldn’t affect, see Chaz and Dubar, those who have only played 4 would in theory get another year, as well as every underclassmen also and freshman going forward.
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Without looking it up, I’m not sure about the red shirt requirement for grad transfers. Most would need one rather than graduating in 3 years though.

I guess the primary reason for the grad transfer rule was that if a player graduated then they didn’t have to sit out a year to transfer. John Fields was the earliest GT that I remember and he redshirted in his 3rd year, played in his 4th, and transferred to UT for his 5th/senior year.
 
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Nothing new to report on the recruiting front for the 2025 class. Tennessee is still active and looking to add a couple of bodies to the class at least.

There is no more representative example of the current state of recruiting than five-star Nate Ament, the No. 3 overall player in the Class of 2025, releasing his ‘top 11 schools’ this week. In January.

Tennessee continues to pursue Ament, who made an official visit to Knoxville in October. That recruitment appears to have a lot of twists and turns in it before it reaches its final destination.

Tennessee is hopeful of getting Ament on campus for an unofficial visit this month or next, but with blue bloods like Kansas and Kentucky clamoring to just get an official that might be a tough task.
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Tennessee is set to host five-star guard Brayden Burries this coming week. He’s slated for a midweek visit for the Mississippi State game.

One of the highest ranked unsigned prospects in the Class of 2025 Burries has taken official visits thus far to Arizona, SMU, Alabama, and Oregon. Alabama is in the mix here as are USC and UCLA.
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Tennessee remains very much in the hunt for four-star point guard Chance Mallory. The one-time Virginia commit is one of the top unsigned point guards in the ’25 class and a guy that has a lot of similarities to Zakai Zeigler in his game.

That’s been a big selling point for Tennessee with him and something that has apparently been appealing. Virginia is trying to stay involved and Maryland and Virginia Tech are pushing, but it feels like Tennessee is in a strong spot here at the moment.
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bleedingTNorange said:
Commits:
#83 Dewayne Brown-COMMITTED
#101 Amari Evans-COMMITTED


Priority Targets:
#3 Nate Ament-OV SCHEDULED 10/19
#6 Caleb Wilson-OV SCHEDULED 10/11 & UOV
#12 Brayden Burries-OV SCHEDULED 10/19
#48 Chance Mallory- OV SCHEDULED & UOV


Other offers:
#9 Koa Peat
#15 Mikel Brown Jr.
#139 Deondrea Lindsey
#146 Jaylen Cross-UOV
NR Aleks Alston-UOV
NR Shane Cherry


Committed elsewhere:
#5 Chris Cenac-OV TAKEN 9/14
#24 Darius Adams-OV TAKEN 9/13 & UOV
#50 JJ Mandaquit-OV SCHEDULED 11/16
#63 Samis Calderon- OV TAKEN 10/26
#92 Isaiah Denis-OV SCHEDULED 10/11 & UOV
#108 Dante Allen-OV TAKEN 8/23
#135 Josiah Sanders-OV SCHEDULED 10/11

#7 Meleek Thomas
#11 Tounde Yessoufou
#13 Kingston Flemings
#28 Trey McKinney
#30 Kiyan Anthony
#33 Eric Reibe
#34 Nikolas Khamenia
#39 Shon Abaev- OV TAKEN
#43 John Clark
#51 Kai Rogers
#59 Jerry Easter
#62 Matt Gilhool
#63 Cam Ward
#69 Christian Jeffrey
#72 Sebastian Williams-Adams
#73 Nyk Lewis
#85 A’mare Bynum
#88 Amari Allen-UOV
#102 Zymicah Wilkins
#106 Gevonte Ware
#114 Keyshuan Tillery
#143 Nicholas Randall
NR Adrien Stevens
NR Simon Walker-UOV
NR Silas Barksdale
NR Jackson Keith-UOV
NR Jermaine O’Neal Jr.-UOV
NR BJ Davis-Ray
NR JR Leonard-UOV
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Looks like we can finally mark Wilson off the list and focus on other targets.
 
#1,021
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Wilson is probably going to UNC. UK fans are pissed because they thought they were the team to beat.
 
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