Report: Tennessee Basketball sets Zoom call with four-star shooting guard Darius Adams

Tennessee Basketball has set up a Zoom call for the next step in its recruitment of four-star guard Darius Adams, according to a report from the Knoxville News Sentinel on Wednesday. Adams was recently released from his letter of intent at UConn.

The 6-foot-4, 170-pound Adams is ranked No. 18 overall in the On3 Industry Ranking. He’s the No. 7 shooting guard in the class and the No. 2 overall player in the state of Indiana. Adams is ranked No. 25 overall in the On3 ratings. He’s the No. 10 shooting guard and the No. 2 player in Indiana. Rivals has Adams as a five-star prospect.

Darius Adams committed to UConn over Tennessee, Michigan State

Alabama and Michigan State are believed to also be involved in the recruitment of Adams, who was heavily involved with the Vols during his initial recruitment. He committed to UConn in September, picking the Huskies over Tennessee and Michigan State, among others.

Tennessee still has three roster spots to fill to get to the full allotment of 13 scholarship players.

On Sunday Rick Barnes got a commitment from five-star small forward Nate Ament, the No. 3 overall player in the class in the On3 ratings. He signed with the Vols on Monday. Other prep signees in Tennessee’s 2025 class include four-star guard Amari Evans, four-star center Dewayne Brown and three-star point guard Troy Henderson.

The Vols have also signed two players out of the NCAA Transfer Portal so far in Maryland point guard Ja’Kobi Gillepsie and Vanderbilt power forward Jaylen Carey.

Evans, the 6-foot-5, 204-pound prospect out of Pittsburgh, is ranked No. 68 nationally, No. 20 at shooting guard and No. 7 in the state of Georgia, where he played in the Overtime Elite League in Atlanta.

The 6-foot-9, 235-pound Brown, out of Hoover, Ala., is ranked No. 100 overall. He’s the No. 10 center in the class and the No. 1 prospect in the state of Alabama.

Henderson, who committed to Tennessee in March and signed last week, is ranked No. 248 overall. He’s the No. 34 point guard in the class and the No. 13 player in the state of Virginia.

Ja’Kobi Gillespie ranked No. 10 overall in NCAA Transfer Portal

Gillespie is ranked as the No. 10 prospect in the NCAA Transfer Portal, according to On3, and Carey is ranked No. 59.

Gillespie started all 36 games at Maryland this season, averaging 14.7 points and 4.8 assists in 31.6 minutes per game while shooting 45.3% from the floor and 40.7% from the 3-point line, where he made 87 of 214 attempts.

He’s a Greeneville, Tenn. native, who started his college basketball career at Belmont, averaging 17.2 points, 4.2 assists and 2.2 steals in 31.4 minutes per game as a sophomore at Belmont in 2023-24.

Carey, the 6-foot-8, 245-pound sophomore, averaged 8.0 points and 5.7 rebounds in 20.2 minutes per game at Vanderbilt this season. It’s not been that long ago when picking up stakes and moving on from the college where you started your career was a fairly big deal. While not that long ago, those days feel like ancient history with the freedom of player movement in the current environment of college athletics.