Tyreke Key commits to Tennessee basketball after Indiana State transfer

Tyreke Key dedicated to Tennessee basketball on Saturday, giving the Vols a veteran guard by way of the switch portal.

The 6-foot-3, 205-pound guard averaged 17.2 factors, 5.3 rebounds and a couple of.0 assists within the 2020-21 season at Indiana State. He missed final season after having season-ending shoulder surgical procedure in early November.

Key visited Tennessee from Wednesday to Friday.

Key additionally visited Texas Tech from April 14-15. He deliberate to go to Ole Miss on April 24-26 and Oklahoma on April 27-29 earlier than committing to the Vols.

The Celina, Tennessee, native averaged 14.5 factors, 4.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 114 profession video games at Indiana State. He’s a profession 37.4% 3-point shooter. He hit 44.8% of his 3-pointers as a sophomore in 2018-19.

Key scored 3,287 factors throughout his highschool profession at Clay County, which is eleventh most in Tennessee historical past. He scored a single-season state-record 1,383 factors as a senior in 2016-17. Key performed AAU basketball with the Tennessee Bobcats, the identical program that produced former Vols Lucas Campbell, John Fulkerson and Brock Jancek.

Tennessee has three remaining scholarship openings. Kennedy Chandler declared for the NBA Draft, whereas Quentin Diboundje, Brandon Huntley-Hatfield and Handje Tamba entered the switch portal.

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Diboundje transferred to East Carolina, which employed former Vols assistant Mike Schwartz in March. Victor Bailey Jr. additionally transferred to George Mason. Knoxville Catholic guard BJ Edwards crammed that spot as UT’s lone present 2022 signee.

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