Memphis Transfer Guard Landers Nolley II Commits to Cincinnati

The Bearcats have completed their 2022-23 backcourt.

Russ Heltman | Apr 27, 2022

CINCINNATI — Landers Nolley II is a Cincinnati Bearcat.

The Memphis transfer guard is continuing his college career with Cincinnati after choosing between UC, Texas A&M, and NC State.

The 6-foot-7 transfer guard averaged 9.8 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 2.8 assists last season for Memphis. He still has two years of eligibility remaining and takes up Cincinnati's final open scholarship.

Nolley started his career as a member of the All-ACC Freshman team for Virginia Tech in 2019-20 before transferring to Memphis. He lost a major starting role this past season but still put up respectable numbers as a pseudo-sixth man.

Nolley was first-team All-AAC in 2020-21 and sports a 36.7% three-point mark on 7.2 attempts per game during his two seasons in the league so far. For perspective, he is immediately the best outside shooter on the team, just ahead of Jeremiah Davenport (35.9% from deep in 2021-22).

That is especially important for this final transfer addition after UC lost two of their three best outside threats in Mason Madsen (36.3%) and Mike Saunders (35.9%).

In terms of efficiency, Nolley posted a 52.7% true shooting rate at Memphis. Again, that would be near the top of the roster UC rolled out last season (third behind Viktor Lakhin and Davenport). The addition of Nolley gives Wes Miller four different guards that can comfortably direct an offense (Mika Adams-Woods, David Dejulius, Rob Phinisee, and Nolley).

The big question surrounding the newest Bearcat is whether he can tap back into that 2020-21 play with a larger defined role. Cincinnati needs him to use that frame defensively like he did two years ago (90.9 defensive rating), not like last season during inconsistent bench minutes (100.3 defensive rating).

According to Evan Miya, Nolley is the 20th-ranked transfer this year and the fifth-ranked shooting guard.

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Published Apr 27, 2022

RUSS HELTMAN

Russ Heltman is a contributor for AllBearcats and AllBengals. He is the morning host and producer for 89.3 WMKV in Cincinnati, OH. Russ can be found on Twitter: @RussHeltman11 or you can reach him by email at Heltmandm@yahoo.com.