Tyler Harris has chosen the school he will spend his final season of eligibility and it has a familiar head coach. Harris committed to Auburn University and Bruce Pearl on Friday, indicating his commitment by sending out a tweet of #WarEagle, the well-known battle-cry at Auburn. Harris visited the campus during the first weekend in May. He also visited Boston College, UConn, Georgia Tech, Iowa State, Nebraska and Oklahoma State during his transfer process. The familiarity with Pearl having coached Tyler’s older brother Tobias had to be a large factor in the decision to attend the SEC school.
Providence redshirt junior Tyler Harris will receive his bachelor’s degree in Sociology on May 17th at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center and that will be the final time Harris’ name is called over the PA system at the Dunk. The academic senior will take his degree and move on from Providence, the school announced Tuesday. Harris has one final year of eligibility at his disposal. It isn’t clear at this time if Harris intends to use that eligibility or if he is leaving Providence to explore professional opportunities. It sounds like Harris will explore transfer opportunities and if the right one isn’t available he will head overseas.
Providence arrived in Columbus on Wednesday and were greeted by some Friar fans at the team hotel. After settling in the team watched the Dayton/Boise State game together in their film room at the hotel and “watch[ed] with an open mind” according to Carson Desrosiers. The team practiced Thursday morning with an eye on Dayton for the first time and LaDontae Henton, Kris Dunn, Tyler Harris, Carson Desrosiers and Ed Cooley met with the media Thursday afternoon around 5pm followed by another team practice.
Here are some of the highlights from that media session:
First let me say that it has not been a well kept secret that Tyler Harris had plans of going pro after this season. In a NY Post article from the summer of 2014 Harris’ father Torrel, likely the source of the RealGM.com story, predicted that Tyler would declare for the draft after this season.
Tyler Harris will once again attend the Kevin Durant Skills Academy. This year’s camp will be held from June 27th-29th in Washington, DC. Here is a short description of the event from the website:
The 2014 NBA MVP Kevin Durant will host the top 30 high school and top 15 collegiate wing players from across the country at the annual Durant skills academy. Over two and a half days and five workouts, Durant will relay to the next generation of wing players what it takes to be named NBA MVP.
Harris has been down in Houston working with John Lucas this offseason.
Watch the Friars Mens Basketball team battle Xavier 3 pm Saturday on OSN channel 5, 1005 HD (Cox Cable) Fans will also want to check out the post-game press conference with Coach Ed Cooley at CoxSportsOnline.com
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