Lew Evans spent last season at Utah State, but the graduate transfer will spend his final year of college basketball elsewhere. Tennessee is among the programs he’s considering, and he’s visiting Knoxville this weekend.ATLANTA – With six players signed already and a dearth of size on the roster, Tennessee’s men’s basketball program is being selective with its remaining scholarship for next season.
Coach Rick Barnes and the Volunteers hope to add a graduate transfer for at least two reasons. Landing an immediately eligible post player for one year would help next season’s team while keeping open a second scholarship for the 2017 recruiting class.
“That’s what we want,” Barnes said before Wednesday’s Big Orange Caravan stop at the College Football Hall of Fame. “We definitely want two scholarships going into next year. We want to be able to offer and sign a couple of inside players, post players. That would be the perfect situation, if we could end up finding a fifth-year guy.”
One possibility is Lew Evans, who is transferring from Utah State but has not decided where he’ll play his final college season. He’s visiting Knoxville this weekend.
The 6-foot-9 forward averaged 8.4 points and 5.6 rebounds while starting 16 of 30 games as the Aggies went 16-15 last season. Evans shot just 41 percent from the field, but he made nearly 36 percent of his 73 3-point attempts and better than 71 percent of his free throws.