UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom picked up a commitment on Friday from an undersized four from UC-Irvine, Devin Tillis.
Tillis, listed at 6’7”, 225, will be a fifth-year player, a grad transfer, after playing a year at UNLV, in 2020-2021, then sitting out a redshirt year ahead of a three-year stint at UC-Irvine, where he averaged 13.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game in the 2024-2025 season.
The kid can shoot it – Tillis is 38.6 percent from three for his career – and he was over six rebounds a game in each of his three years at Irvine, a member of the Big West Conference.
At that level, he was a beast in the paint – 92-of-140 (65.7 percent) at the rim and 138-of-227 (60.8 percent) overall in the painted area in 2024-2025.
Only 12 midrange attempts all season – Tillis knows the metrics.
For a post guy doing most of his business around the basket, he didn’t get to the line a lot – just 2.8 free-throw attempts per game last season.
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