University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball coach Matt McCall and his staff put together a nice recruiting class in 2015 based on prior relationships built over the years.
They’re starting to do the same thing again.
Andrew Fleming, who spent his freshman year of college at Iowa, announced Wednesday he would be spending his last three seasons playing for the Mocs. Fleming, a 6-foot-5 guard originally from Nashville, had previously made the decision to transfer.
When McCall was an assistant at Florida – before taking the head coaching job at UTC last year – he established a relationship with Fleming. That increased Fleming’s comfort with his decision to transfer to UTC, especially after an unofficial visit last weekend.
“I’ve known him for five years, and I trust him more than anybody in the business,” Fleming said. “The fit works great; it’s a beautiful city and they have some young, hungry guys on staff. We talked a lot of basketball over the weekend and what his plans are to do with me.”