Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway added depth to his revamped roster in junior faculty ahead Damarien “Dink” Yates.
The 6-foot-8 Yates prepped at Fayette-Ware, incomes Tennessee Class 3A Mr. Basketball honors in 2023, and spent his freshman season at Vincennes (Indiana) College. Yates is predicted to hitch the workforce as a walk-on.
Yates averaged 7.2 factors and 4.6 rebounds in 34 video games as a freshman in 2023-24, capturing 43.4% from the sphere and 30.6% from three for a workforce that completed 30-4 and reached the second spherical of the NJCAA Match. That displaying got here on the heels of his senior season at Fayette-Ware, the place he averaged 18 factors and 15 rebounds.
Memphis has a powerful basis in place for the upcoming season. Hardaway has added a number of Division I transfers, together with guards Tyrese Hunter, PJ Haggerty, Colby Rogers and Baraka Okojie, alongside wing PJ Carter and large males Dain Dainja, Moussa Cisse and Tyreek Smith. Guard Jared Harris is the workforce’s lone true freshman signee to date, and ahead Nicholas Jourdain is the one scholarship participant getting back from the 2023-24 season.
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Memphis nonetheless has a minimum of two open scholarships remaining. Guard Daniel Vieira-Tuck stays dedicated however has nonetheless not signed with the Tigers. If Vieira-Tuck just isn’t ultimately added to the roster, it might go away Hardaway with three open scholarships.
Yates initiatives as a flexible bench choice whose taking part in time will come as a small ahead or stretch 4.
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