Tennessee basketball guard Freddie Dilione V to transfer

The Tennessee men's basketball team could be down one player soon.

Redshirt freshman guard Freddie Dilione V is entering the transfer portal, the Knoxville News-Sentinel's Mike Wilson reported Thursday.

Dilione will have three seasons of eligibility remaining.

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A former four-star shooting guard out of Word of God Christian Academy (Fayetteville, North Carolina) that reclassified in the 2022 class, Dilione arrived at Tennessee as a mid-year enrollee during the 2022-23 season and redshirted.

The 6-foot-4 Dilione made his Vols' debut against Tennessee Tech on Nov. 6, 2023, scoring a season-high seven points while grabbing three rebounds and recording three assists. He missed four games with a foot injury before returning against George Mason on Dec. 5. and later scored five points in Tennessee's 91-71 win over Alabama on Jan. 20.

Dilione appeared in 18 games and averaged 1.7 points and 5.2 minutes per game.

Tennessee's season ended in a 72-66 loss to 1-seed Purdue in the Elite Eight last Sunday. The Vols are set to lose starting guards Josiah-Jordan James, Santiago Vescovi and Dalton Knecht who are all out of eligibility.

With the addition of incoming four-star guard Bishop Boswell, the loss of Dilione would leave the Vols with three scholarship spots to fill this offseason.

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