The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
06.19.2021 | Men's Basketball
Mitchell averaged 18.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per game while earning Atlantic 10 All-Conference first-team honors as a sophomore in 2020-21 at UMass.
AUSTIN, Texas — Tre Mitchell has signed an Athletic Scholarship Agreement (ASA) to play basketball next season at The University of Texas, head coach Chris Beard announced Saturday. Mitchell, who played his first two seasons at the University of Massachusetts, will join the Longhorns for the upcoming 2021-22 season.
Mitchell (6-10, 225), a center from Pittsburgh, Pa., played in 44 career games (43 starts) and registered 792 points (18.0 ppg) and 315 rebounds (7.2 rpg) while adding 52 blocks and 47 steals in his two seasons at UMass. In his 44 career games, Mitchell reached double figures in scoring 41 times and recorded five 30-point efforts.
As a sophomore in 2020-21, Mitchell played in 13 of a possible 15 games (12 starts) and averaged a team-best 18.8 points and 7.2 rebounds in 32.3 minutes per contest. He converted 51.9-percent from the field (83-160), including a 37.5-percent mark from three-point range (15-40), and 76.8-percent from the free throw line (63-82).
Mitchell earned a spot on the Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team last year, the first UMass player to receive the honor since 2013, and was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team. He was one of 10 midseason candidates for the Karl Malone Award, given annually to the top power forward in Division I men's college basketball. Mitchell posted 31 points and 11 rebounds in the season opener against Northeastern (Dec. 11) and tallied a career-high 37 points at LaSalle. The 37 points tied for the eighth-highest point total in UMass single-game history.
During his freshman year (2019-20), Mitchell started all 31 games and averaged a team-high 17.7 points and 7.2 rebounds in 30.8 minutes per contest while adding 32 blocks and 31 steals. He converted 48.1-percent from the floor (206-428) and 72.8-percent from the free throw line (99-136).
The Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year and Atlantic 10 All-Conference second-team selection, Mitchell was a six-time selection as Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week. He finished the regular season by winning five straight A-10 Rookie of the Week honors, the most by an Atlantic 10 player since Lamar Odom of Rhode Island in 1998-99. His 19.6 points per game scoring average in league games ranked second in the conference behind only A-10 Player of the Year Obi Toppin (Dayton). Mitchell set a UMass freshman record for most field goals in a season (206, previous: Jim McCoy, 193 in 1988-89). His 548 points were fourth in the nation among NCAA Division I freshmen and eight shy of breaking the UMass rookie record for single-season points (555 by Jim McCoy in 1988-89).
Mitchell played his junior and senior years of high school at Woodstock Academy (Woodstock, Conn.). The 2019 Connecticut Gatorade Boys Basketball Player of the Year, he was ranked as the No. 72 overall prospect in the nation by Rivals and No. 73 by ESPN in the class of 2019.
Mitchell averaged 16.6 points, 13.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.6 blocks per game as a senior in 2018-19 while leading Woodstock to a 38-2 record. In his junior season (2017-18), he averaged 13.5 points, 10.5 rebounds, four assists and two blocks per contest as he paced the Centaurs to a 35-5 mark and the semifinals of the National Prep Tournament. A two-time Power 5 Conference AAA Player of the Year and two-time Hoophall Classic Most Valuable Player, Mitchell scored over 1,000 points in his two seasons at Woodstock.
