Texas Tech University Athletics
Officially Signed: Damarion Dennis
April 21, 2026 | Men's Basketball
LUBBOCK – Texas Tech head coach Grant McCasland has officially announced the signing of transfer guard Damarion Dennis who will join the Red Raider program as a junior for the 2026-27 season. Dennis averaged 11.2 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists as a sophomore at Wyoming last season after beginning his college career at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
A San Antonio native, Dennis returns to his home state to join the Red Raiders having already produced 586 points, 165 rebounds, 87 assists and 54 steals in 66 career games. Dennis scored in double figures in 19 games last season, including a career-high 21 points against Colorado State and South Dakota. He recorded his first career double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds against UNLV in the WAC Tournament and finished his sophomore season with 17 points, five rebounds, three assists and two steals against Wichita State in the NIT. Dennis scored 20-plus points in three games during his second collegiate season after posting 20 points against Utah State where he was 3-for-6 on 3-pointers. For the season, Dennis shot 131-for-252 (52.0%) from the field and made 34 3-pointers.
As a freshman in Corpus Christi, Dennis averaged 6.7 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game. He had a freshman-season high of 13 points at New Orleans and finished the season with six double-figure scoring performances. Dennis shot 29-for-75 (38.7%) from beyond the arc as a freshman with three games making three.
Dennis graduated from Veterans Memorial High School in San Antonio where he led his team to the Class 5A State Tournament as a senior and to district championships as a junior and senior. He earned All-District MVP honors and set the school scoring record.
Texas Tech is coming off its third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament under McCasland and a 23-11 overall record. Through three seasons under McCasland, the Red Raiders are 74-31 after a season where the team earned a program record four wins over Top 10 teams. Tech was ranked throughout the 2025-26 season for the first time in program history – ranking as high as No. 10 and finishing the season at No. 21 in the AP Top 25. Dennis is the second player to sign with Tech from the transfer portal this offseason after Cruz Davis signed last week out of Hofstra. Davis, a Plano, Texas native, averaged 20.1 points, 4.7 assists, 3.7 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game last season at Hofstra – earning Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Player of the Year and leading his team to the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The incoming class includes freshman DaKari Spear who signed with the program on November 13, 2025. Spear is a 6-foot-5 guard from Dallas, Texas who played at Dynamic Prep and earned a four-star recruiting rating.
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