Kansas State lands elite guard transfer Tylor Perry
Jerome Tang and Kansas State have added their first transfer of the cycle in former North Texas guard Tylor Perry. It comes on the heels of his official visit to K-State. The Wildcats entered the Manhattan trip with the lead for the senior guard, as indicated by Kansas State predictions from On3’s Jamie Shaw and KSO’s Derek Young.
Perry’s recruitment was actually completed in the shadows in regards to K-State. He did not include the Big 12 program in his first few lists of schools that he was prioritizing. Despite that, insiders at K-StateOnline continued to stress that he was a prospect of note.
Kansas State was always in the hunt, and that became readily apparent when they were present in his final group of four schools. That was a collection of schools that also consisted of Texas Tech, Ole Miss and Florida.
While he never made the trip to Lubbock, the top 20 transfer did see Florida, Ole Miss, Alabama and Arkansas, along with K-State. Those were the five official visits that he elected to take, though the Crimson Tide and Razorbacks didn’t make the last cut.
It is a reunion for Perry with Kansas State assistant coach Jareem Dowling. The two were both in Denton, Texas in 2021-22 for the Mean Green when Perry led the team in scoring at 13.5 points per game.
Perry comes to the Wildcats with a very accomplished career. While at Coffeyville Community College, he led the Ravens to the 2021 NJCAA DI National Championship. In the National Championship game, he scored 18 points and added seven assists, and for the tournament, he averaged 16.2 points per game.
For North Texas, Perry was the 2022 Conference USA Sixth Man of the Year, was named twice to the All-Conference USA first team, was the Most Outstanding Player of the 2023 NIT Tournament and the 2023 Conference USA Player of the Year.
The newest K-State Wildcat averaged 17.3 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game this past season for the Mean Green. He scored 20 or more points in 14 of their 36 games, including scoring 23 points versus Oklahoma State in the NIT.
According to the On3 transfer rankings, Perry is the No. 20 player in the transfer portal.
