UNC’s Cade Tyson Will Leave Program, Enter Transfer Portal

After just one season in Chapel Hill, Cade Tyson is moving on from UNC.

Tyson entered his name into the transfer portal Friday afternoon, marking the junior’s second foray into the portal in as many offseasons. The former Belmont standout arrived at UNC with high expectations – he scored 16.2 points per game and shot 46.5 percent on three-pointers as a sophomore, earning All-Missouri Valley Conference honors. As a freshman the previous season, Tyson had been named the MVC’s Rookie of the Year.

But Tyson’s numbers dipped drastically as a Tar Heel: his scoring cratered to 2.6 points per game, and his three-point shooting sank to a career-low 29.2 percent. After averaging nearly 12 field goal attempts per game his last season at Belmont, Tyson averaged just 2.3 per game at UNC. By the end of the season, Tyson’s had fallen to the end of head coach Hubert Davis’ rotation: he played more than 10 minutes just twice after the new year. In six of UNC’s 37 games, Tyson didn’t check in at all.

After making 128 threes across his two years at Belmont, Tyson made only 14 with the Tar Heels. Of those 14, five came in one game against La Salle, when Tyson scored a season-high 23 points.

Tyson will have one year of eligibility remaining at his next school. He is the fourth Tar Heel to enter the transfer portal, after Elliot Cadeau and Jalen Washington did so in March and Ian Jackson entered Monday.

Featured image via Todd Melet

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