Lady Vols basketball and Kim Caldwell are stacking up talent through the transfer portal. However, one of the recent targets to visit Knoxville has committed elsewhere. SMU guard Tyi Skinner has committed to Syracuse on Tuesday, according to a report from 247.
This comes after Skinner took a visit to both Tennessee and Alabama last week, according to a report from 247. Despite the reported visits to the SEC programs, she’s staying in the ACC instead.
Skinner most recently played at SMU. However, she was only available to play in eight games, starting in seven, before suffering a season-ending injury. Before going down, she was averaging 13.6 points per game on 35.3% shooting from the field and 30.4% on threes. She also added 3.6 assists, 1.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game.
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This was her first year at SMU. Prior to that, she was at Arizona State for three seasons. In the 2024-25 year, she averaged 16.8 points on 39.6% shooting from the field and 38.1% on threes. This landed her as an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention. However, the year before that, she missed the entire season due to injury.
Her first year with the Sun Devils, the 2022-23 season, she averaged a career-high 19.3 points per game on 36.1% shooting from the field and 34.7% from range. She was named an All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention for the year.
Before her time at Arizona State, Skinner played a pair at Delaware. She stands at 5-foot-5 and projects to play point guard with UT. She is from Washington, D.C., and played for TPLS Christian Academy.
So far, the Lady Vols have landed seven transfer portal commitments. This features Liberty guard Avery Mills, Northern Arizona guard Naomi White, Stanford forward Harper Peterson, Georgia forward Zhen Craft and guard Rylie Theuerkauf, Auburn guard Harissoum Coulibaly and Texas A&M forward Fatmata Janneh.
