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As Mark Byington’s second season approaches, the Vanderbilt basketball coach has reloaded through the transfer portal just as he did a year ago.

While Byington started from scratch last year, this season he has a small core to work with. Although just three scholarship players return, all three are important: Tyler Nickel, Devin McGlockton and Tyler Tanner. Around them, Byington added eight transfers.

Frankie Collins

Collins is an experienced guard who will be on his sixth year of college basketball. He’s also on his fourth school after stops at Michigan, Arizona State and TCU

Collins should approximate AJ Hoggard’s role as a slashing point guard who runs the offense as a facilitator. He’s also a very good defender who’s had high steal

rates throughout his career, something that makes him a good fit in Byington’s defensive scheme. The biggest issues is that not only is Collins a non-shooter (30.4% from three in his career), he also

has a very poor free-throw percentage (58.2% in his career) which leads to questions about whether he’ll be able to stay on the court at the end of games.

Miles is another well-traveled sixth-year player. The combo guard played at Troy, High Point and Oklahoma previously, and he committed to Virginia and Texas A&M this offseason before settling on Vanderbilt.

Miles was a high-volume scorer at his mid-major stops, but the Sooners used him as more of a role player. There, he was an efficient scorer but with a lower usage rate. He shot 51% from the field

and 43% from three in 2024-25 while also averaging 2.9 assists and 1.5 steals. He’s also rated out as a strong defender throughout his career

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