Vols land sharpshooting guard Lanier from UNF

Previous North Florida guard Chaz Lanier, one of the top available players in the transfer portal, has actually dedicated to Tennessee, he told ESPN on Friday.

“I’m going back home,” Lanier stated. “I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. I couldn’t skip the chance to come back to my home state and put on for my city and family. My entire family will be at every game next year, lord ready.”

Lanier, a first-team All-Atlantic Sun player, balanced 19.7 points per game last season. He ranked among the very best shooters in college basketball, striking 106 3-pointers in 31 games while converting 44% of his efforts from beyond the arc.Lanier selected the Vols over Kentucky and BYU after recently taking official sees to all three schools.”UT was the best since of the fit and the play style,” Lanier stated.”I’ll have the ability to showcase my ability to put the ball in the basket at the greatest level of college basketball, and also establish my defense under a hall of fame coach in Rick Barnes, who has a performance history of sending out players to the NBA. Our objectives are aligned. I know that winning is whatever. The culture that he developed is special. I could feel it on my main go to.”

Lanier says he will withdraw his name from the NBA draft at the May 29 NCAA due date after gathering valuable feedback at the NBA G League’s Elite Camp in Chicago last week.Lanier joins

a Tennessee group coming off a SEC regular-season champion and Elite 8 appearance, a team headlined by SEC Player of the Year and All-American Dalton Knecht, a projected top-10 pick.An elite shooter/scorer who plays the very same position, Knecht moved from Northern Colorado, a fact that wasn’t lost on Lanier in the recruiting procedure.

“Tennessee never ever compared me to Dalton in terms of our play design or game, however we did talk about the route he took which is a very comparable course,” he stated. “It’s possible I can do the exact same thing.”