Texas Tech shooting guard Kevin Overton has entered the transfer portal. Overton played his freshman season for new IU coach Darian DeVries at Drake before playing his sophomore season at Texas Tech.
Overton, IU transfer portal commit forward Tucker DeVries, and IU transfer portal commit point guard Conor Enright were teammates at Drake in 2023-24. Enright is transferring to Indiana from DePaul, DeVries obviously from West Virginia.
The 6-foot-5, 200-pound guard averaged 7.8 points, 3.7 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 22.3 minutes per game for Texas Tech during the 2024-25 season.
He shot 33.1 percent from 3-point range on 1.1 made 3s per game, 52.3 percent from 2-point range and 77.9 percent from the free throw line.
As a freshman at Drake under DeVries: 11.3 points, 1.1 assists, 3.3 rebounds, 29.9 minutes per game, started all 35 games he played; 34.6 percent from 3-point range on 1.8 made 3s per game, 57.0 percent from 2-point range on 2.1 made 2s per game, 79.5 percent from the free throw line, and an effective field goal percentage of 54.1 percent.
Coming out of Sunrise Christian, a prep school that plays on the EYBL Scholastic circuit, Overton was a four-star prospect ranked No. 140 in the country.
Here is his scouting report after his freshman year at Drake from 247Sports national analyst Adam Finkelstein:
“Kevin Overton looked like a late steal for Drake at the tail end of his prep season at Sunrise Christian Academy as the southpaw showed a combination of positional size, playmaking, and scoring. He lived up to that billing early by scoring 15 or more points in four of his first five games for Drake. He went on to start all 35 games and put up 11 points, 3 rebounds, and one assist per game as a freshman for a team that won the Missouri Valley Conference tournament championship.
“Overton adapted to less volume, and was relatively efficient because of it. He’s a true three-range scoring threat, who was particularly comfortable in the mid-range area in the prep ranks, and yet attempted just 26% of his total shots from that range this year, per Pivot Analysis. Instead, 59% of his shots came from behind the arc, where he knocked down 35% of them, showing flashes of shooting on the move and with deep range with a compact release. He was also an extremely efficient finisher at the rim for a guard, converting 62% of his attempts. His total offensive metrics were in the 91st percentile this year per Synergy Sports.
“Conversely, he ranked in just the 28th percentile on the defensive end of the floor, although he should possess all the physical markers, including good positional size, to be effective on that end.”
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