{"id":872044,"date":"2026-04-22T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872044\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:12:18","slug":"missouri-guard-t-o-barrett-commits-to-vanderbilt-out-of-ncaa-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872044\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri guard T.O. Barrett commits to Vanderbilt out of NCAA transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri<\/a> guard T.O. Barrett<\/a> has committed to Vanderbilt<\/a> out of the NCAA transfer portal<\/a>, continuing a strong portal run for the Commodores and coach Mark Byington<\/a>, On3 has learned. Barrett just rapped up his sophomore season with the Tigers.<\/p>\n

After playing sparingly as a freshman, seeing action in 19 games without a start, Barrett began to have a much bigger impact this season. He started a little less than half of his team\u2019s games in 2025-26.<\/p>\n

T.O. Barrett notched 14 starts in 33 appearances, tallying 22.8 minutes per game. He averaged 8.6 points, 3.0 assists and 2.7 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

He had a breakout performance in a game against Tennessee<\/a> in late February. During that contest, Barrett exploded for a career-high 28 points on 12-of-17 shooting from the floor. He did all his damage from inside the 3-point line.<\/p>\n

And if Vanderbilt is looking for an area that T.O. Barrett can improve in, that\u2019s an easy place to start. Barrett shot just 20.5% from 3-point range, hoisting 44 attempts on the season. If he can develop that aspect of his game, Barrett will be very dangerous.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s already got good size for a guard at 6 foot 4, 205 pounds. He also dished out 99 assists this season, proving to be a decent distributor of the ball, though a 1.4 assist-to-turnover ratio still needs a bit of work.<\/p>\n

In any case, T.O. Barrett is a quality addition for the \u2018Dores. He\u2019s one of several this offseason.<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt lands T.O. Barrett, Bangot Dak<\/p>\n

In addition to T.O. Barrett, former Colorado<\/a> forward Bangot Dak<\/a> has committed to Vanderbilt out of the NCAA transfer portal<\/a>, On3 has learned. Dak averaged 11.5 points per game for the Buffaloes this past season.<\/p>\n

Dak made 32 appearances and 30 starts for the Buffaloes this past season. In addition to his scoring average, he logged 6.5 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in 25.7 minutes per game. He shot 49.2% from the field and 25.9% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Impressively, during Colorado\u2019s season-ending loss to Oklahoma State<\/a> in the Big 12 Tournament, Dak finished the game scoring 22 points, eight rebounds and three blocks on 10-13 shooting from the floor. A solid way to go out ahead of his portal entry.<\/p>\n

The 7-foot junior ultimately spent three seasons at Colorado and has been a regular fixture to the Buffs\u2019 lineup over the past two seasons in particular. He ultimately played 90 games, including 50 starts for Colorado before deciding to enter the NCAA transfer portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Missouri guard T.O. Barrett has committed to Vanderbilt out of the NCAA transfer portal, continuing a strong portal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,118168],"class_list":{"0":"post-872044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-t-o-barrett-24-link-academy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116449479516076703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}