ARLINGTON – New UT Arlington men's basketball head coach KT Turner has added another Division-I transfer, this time in the formidable presence of 6-10, 250-pound center Darrius Miles, who signed with the Mavericks following two seasons at Western Kentucky.
 
An Oak Cliff native from the DFW Metroplex, Miles will have three years of eligibility remaining with UTA, beginning immediately as a redshirt sophomore.
 
Miles commenced his collegiate career in the spring semester of the 2020-21 season at Odessa College before transferring to Conference USA member WKU.
 
Coming out of Oak Cliff Faith Family Academy, Miles was a 3-star recruit by 247Sports and garnered All-District 10-4A First Team honors as a senior by the Dallas Morning News.
 
"Darrius is a skilled, modern-day big man – he can score inside and out," said Turner. "He has a lot of upside, potential and bright future with his natural length and ability."
 
Last year with the Hilltoppers, Miles appeared in 10 games. He delivered a D-I career-high seven points against Kentucky State in his first appearance of the year, going 3-4 from the floor and knocking down a 3-pointer in that contest. For the season, Miles shot 50 percent from the field.
 
In his first season at WKU, Miles logged action in just one game and used a redshirt season. However, that contest came against national power Kentucky in December where he scored four points and grabbed two rebounds in 10 minutes.
 
Miles joined Odessa midway through the COVID-impacted campaign in 2020-21, and appeared in 17 games starting in late January. He shot 61 percent from the field for the year, and notched a season-high 12 points against Loyalty College Prep in his second game with the Wranglers.
 
This is Turner's seventh signee of his initial recruiting class as Miles joins D-I transfers Freds Pauls Bagatskis, DaJuan Gordon, Phillip Russell and Fabio Basili, former D-I product Dwayne Koroma and prep school graduate Makaih Williams. Incoming freshman Kade Douglas from nearby Lancaster High School was also signed last November.
 
Combined with returners Shemar Wilson, Brandyn Talbot and Aaron Cash, Turner already has nine players on the 2023-24 roster who have previous D-I playing experience with still more signees coming. Those nine have combined to score 3,054 D-I points; as a team last year, UTA began the season with only 1,215 D-I points combined among 14 players.
 
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