Cade Tyson player profile for 2024-2025 UNC basketball season
The transfer portal is a tricky beast. The UNC basketball team brought in several key players via the transfer portal this year, which now allows players at any collegiate level to switch colleges without penalty every year. However, the Heels also lost several players over the last couple of years to the portal who didn't see as much playing time or a role as they foresaw to begin their time with Carolina.
One of the key transfers that Carolina and Hubert Davis brought into the program this year is Cade Tyson. The former Belmont star is a stretch four that will help replace the production that Carolina saw from Harrison Ingram. Here is everything you need to know about the big man.
Cade Tyson Bio
Height: 6-foot-7
Weight: 200lbs
Number: 2
Position: Forward
Year: Junior
Hometown: Monroe, North Carolina
High School: Carmel Christian
Previous College: Belmont
2023-2024 season in review
Last season for the Belmont Bruins, Cade Tyson averaged 16.2 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.6 assists, and 0.9 steals per game. He played in 31 games and averaged 31.6 minutes per game so he is used to playing starter-caliber minutes.
Tyson averaged 2.6 three-pointers last year along with a 46.5% three-point shooting percentage as well which was the best in MVC and the second-best in the entire country.
He was a member of the 2023-24 All-MVC conference team as well as the 2022-23 MVC Rookie of the Year and a member of the MVC All-Freshman team.
2024-2025 role projection
The Tar Heels basketball team has four guys who will compete for major minutes at the four and five positions. Replacing Harrison Ingram and Armando Bacot is a near-impossible task, but these four guys, including Tyson, are going to try.
Tyson doesn't have the rebounding ability that guys like Jalen Washington and Jae'Lyn Withers do, but there isn't a big-man in the country that can shoot like Tyson. I expect him to start on the bench, but possibly start later in the season. However, I think that Tyson will play huge minutes, starter or not.
With RJ Davis and Cade Tyson on the floor at the same time, it will open the court for Elliot Cadeau and the other big man.
Bold Prediction
My bold projection for Cade Tyson is that he brings that three-point shooting percentage to the ACC from the MVC. It might have been easier to lead a conference like the MVC, but this year, I think Tyson leads the entire ACC in shooting percentage becoming one of the best transfers of this year's portal.
As a starter last season, Tyson averaged 2.6 threes per game. With facilitators like Davis and Cadeau, I think that number goes up as well. Tyson has the ability to take Carolina fans back a couple of years to the Brady Manek days.
Cade Tyson hits career-high eight threes
In Tyson's freshman season at Belmont, the team took on Indiana State in the conference tournament for the MVC. Tyson dropped 24 points, which was his freshman-season high along with a career-high eight threes.
Not only did he hit eight threes, he only shot 10 total which means he averaged 80% from behind the arc in his biggest game as a freshman.
Tyson double-doubles for the first time
Heading into his sophomore season with Belmont, Tyson dropped his first double-double of his career in the second-to-last regular season game of that year on the road at Murray State.
Tyson ended with 19 points and 10 rebounds, nine of which were defensive. To date, that has been his only career double-double. He also shot five-for-seven from behind the arc as Belmont picked up a win.
Tyson drops career-high against Northern Iowa
In the middle of last year, Tyson and Belmont took on Northern Iowa, a team that they would end up losing to in the conference tournament at the end of the season. Despite the loss in this regular season game as well, Tyson did all he could to propel Belmont dropping a career-high 29 points.
He finished with 29 points, seven rebounds, and one steal. He shot 12-for-17 from the floor and 5-for-7 from behind the arc in 34 minutes.
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