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North Alabama guard Jacari Lane commits to transfer to Texas A&M

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North Alabama Lions guard Jacari Lane (5) passes out as Auburn Tigers take on North Alabama Lions at Neville Arena in Auburn, Ala., on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. Auburn Tigers defeated North Alabama Lions 102-69. © Jake Crandall / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

North Alabama junior guard Jacari Lane has committed to Texas A&M out of the NCAA Transfer Portal, he announced on Sunday.

Lane spent his first three seasons with the Lions and is coming off a campaign where he averaged 17.3 points, 4.0 assists and 3.2 rebounds per contest. While playing in all 35 of his team’s games, Lane shot 42.3% from the field and 40.6% from behind the arc on five attempts per game from deep.

He finished his junior year as the Atlantic Sun Conference’s second-leading scorer and helped North Alabama to a 24-11 record and regular season conference title. He has made significant leaps in each of his three seasons as a scorer, averaging 12.7 points as a freshman, 14.7 as a sophomore and more than 17 per game as a junior.

His 3-point shooting has also improved incrementally, as he jumped from a 32% shooter in his first season to better than 40% this past year.

The 6-foot, 178-pound scoring machine is the first transfer commitment for new head coach Bucky McMillan, who took over earlier this month for Buzz Williams after he left for the open job at Maryland.

Texas A&M has already seen seven players — including a handful of walk-ons — depart from its program since Williams accepted the Terrapins gig. Freshman forward George Turkson, freshman guard Andre Mills and junior big man Pharrel Payne have already committed to play for Williams in College Park. Junior swingman Solomon Washington is also in the portal, but has yet to choose his next destination.

With those departures, as well as the losses of Zhuric Phelps, Wade Taylor, Andersson Garcia, Henry Coleman and Manny Obaseki to graduation, McMillan will be fielding almost an entirely new roster in College Station in 2025-26.

He comes to Aggieland after five seasons at Samford, a program that he took from a 6-13 finish in 2020-21 to a pair of regular season conference titles two of the past three seasons.