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Former Tennessee forward transferring to Western Kentucky

Texas A M Tennessee Basketball

(AP)

AP

Another of the players who transferred from Tennessee in the aftermath of a coaching change from Donnie Tyndall to Rick Barnes has found a new school to call home.

Willie Carmichael III, who started 19 games as a freshman, announced on social media that he’s decided to transfer to Western Kentucky. Carmichael averaged 3.0 points and 2.3 rebounds in just under 15 minutes of action per game as a freshman, and his best game of the 2014-15 season came in a late November win over Texas Southern.

Carmichael accounted for ten points and seven rebounds in that game, the lone contest in which he managed to score in double figures. Both numbers represented season highs for Carmichael, who also blocked two shots in the victory. After sitting out the 2015-16 season Carmichael will have three seasons of eligibility remaining.

Carmichael joins a front court that will lose just one player at the end of the 2015-16 season in rising senior Aleksejs Rostov. Among the front court players who will have eligibility remaining when Carmichael’s able to suit up are rising junior Ben Lawson, junior college transfers Anton Waters and Phabian Glasco, sophomore Justin Johnson and freshman Nathan Smith.

Carmichael’s the second Division I transfer to join Ray Harper’s program this spring, with Aaron Cosby making the move from Illinois. As a graduate student Cosby, who began his career at Seton Hall, will be eligible to play immediately.

h/t Bowling Green Daily News