A few players from Tennessee basketball have left the team this spring due to transfers. Rick Barnes and the Vols have less than two weeks to assemble the squad they will play for in the upcoming season before the gateway window closes on April 30.
On April 4, five days after Tennessee’s Elite Eight loss to Purdue, freshman combo guard Freddie Dilione V made his transfer portal debut. After redshirting his first season, he spent two seasons on Rocky Top but did not get the amount of playing time he had anticipated this past season.
Dilione is rated as a four-star transfer prospect by 247Sports and the On3 transfer portal. He would be a fantastic guard to add to any club that wants to rebuild and find someone who can start in the fall.
If On3 is right about where Dilione will commit, then he could be headed exactly toward the latter scenario. Jamie Shaw of On3, the platform’s national recruiting analyst, has projected that Dilione will sign with the Cardinals in Louisville.
After two terrible seasons under Kenny Payne, who finished 12-52 in his two years as the Cardinals head coach, Louisville is seeking to turn things around. As part of his plan to rebuild the Louisville Cardinals roster, new Louisville head coach Pat Kelsey may choose to bring in Dilione as a transfer.
About the Tennessee transfer, “Dilione is in the mist of evolving from a volume scoring wing into a more legitimate big guard,” according to Adam Finkelstein of 247Sports. “He has the size and strength to play and eventually defend all three perimeter positions at 6-foot-5. His frame is almost fully mature and he is naturally strong.”
“His best individual offense typically comes either in the open floor or when coming off ball-screens, where he can get downhill and utilize his size and strength to create mismatches and make plays. There are no glaring mechanical deficiencies in his shot, but he has historically been a streaky shooter … as he can have stretches where he hunts his looks and settles for contested ones.”
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