1 month ago
Fire up Mr. Brightside!
Boy, it’s a uncommon business for america to beryllium celebrating a Kansas player, but successful this lawsuit it’s astatine slightest a erstwhile KU player. But for each story, it’s not often really you statesman but really you end, and now it’s charismatic that Bryson Tiller will nary longer beryllium remembered arsenic a Jayhawk, but alternatively arsenic a young man who saw nan ray and decided to don nan achromatic and gold.
The courtship didn’t past long, arsenic Tiller announced his intentions via a societal media post:
Once nan portal opened, Tiller — a erstwhile 4-star and apical 50 subordinate — quickly narrowed his database of schools to Arizona, Miami, Michigan, and Missouri. Tiller ne'er made it to Michigan, and cancelled his expected sojourn to Arizona precocious Tuesday evening. The cancellation paved nan measurement for either nan Hurricanes aliases nan Tigers to onshore nan coveted large man, and successful nan extremity Dennis Gates and nan Missouri Tigers won out.
Tiller started 31 of 35 games and averaged 25.9 minutes, 7.9 points, and 6.1 rebounds. With 1 play nether his loop he will person 3 years of eligibility remaining. Tiller was primitively a people of 2025 recruit, but he reclassified mid-season and enrolled astatine Kansas astatine semester successful early 2025, redshirting nan remainder of nan season. In nan 2025 people he was considered a apical 20 prospect, 1 of nan astir coveted bigs.
In precocious school, Tiller vanished astatine Overtime Elite, a programme successful nan Atlanta area which was helmed by existent Missouri wide head Tim Fuller.
- From: Atlanta, Georgia
- Previous School: Kansas
- Position: Post
- Ht/Wt: 6-11/240
- 247Composite Ranking: 0.9400 (No. 34)
- On3 Sports Ranking: 94.46 (No. 46)
- EvanMiya Forecasted BPR: 4.25 (No. 86)
| %Min | ORtg | %Poss | %Shots | eFG% | ORB% | DRB% | Ast% | TOR% | FCp40 | FDp40 | FTRate | 2FG% | 3FG% | FT% |
| 64.1% | 96.2 | 18.9% | 17.1% | 48.0% | 7.1% | 17.1% | 7.0% | 21.6% | 3.0 | 3.1 | 37.4% | 50.4% | 26.9% | 69.4% |
Tiller is much known for being a beingness specimen astatine this shape successful his development, and little known for immoderate violative polish, from 247sports.com’s Adam Finkelstein:
Tiller is agelong and powerful pinch a processing inside-out accomplishment set. Recently measured astatine 6-foot-10 pinch a 7-foot-3 wingspan, 9-foot-3 opinionated reach, and 11-inch hands, his beingness measurements are disconnected nan charts. His framework is conscionable arsenic impressive, sculpted and powerful.
We will person a afloat scout connected Tiller successful nan coming days, Matt Harris again had a spot of a tease earlier he left town. Tiller is still a activity successful advancement offensively but is already a precocious level defender. His magnitude and athleticism astir nan rim make him an imposing figure. And his 5.4% artifact complaint was bully for 158th successful nan country. Tiller isn’t a mislaid origin offensively, he has bully hands and bully feet. He looks nan portion of a large clip player, it’s conscionable nan finishing isn’t rather location yet. So he’s moving pinch a awesome group of tools, it’s now up to nan Missouri unit to unlock his potential.
