Former Alcoa basketball star Jahvin Carter is transferring to Middle Tennessee State, he announced Friday.
Carter, who last month completed his freshman season at Penn State, revealed his decision on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Signing the shooting guard will go a long way for the Blue Raiders in alleviating the loss off shooting guard and leading scorer Jestin Porter, who entered the portal following the season. Porter averaged a team-leading 15 points a game and hit 86 3-pointers in 2024-25.
The 6-foot-3, 185-pound Carter averaged 2.1 points and hitting 11 of 34 from 3-point range at Penn State. He had a season-high 12 points in a November game vs. the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Before that, he led Alcoa to back-to-back TSSAA basketball Class 2A state championships and won the TSSAA Class 2A Mr. Basketball award his senior season. He scored a school-record 3,116 points and had 551 assists with the Tornadoes.
The three-time all-state player scored 62 points in a game for Alcoa and was state tournament MVP in both of the Tornadoes' state championship runs (2023, 2024). He averaged 27.4 points and 5.2 assists a game his senior season to earn the 2A Mr. Basketball honor.
He was ranked by 247Sports as the No. 4 player in Tennessee in the 2024 class.
MTSU finished 22-12 in 2023-24, reaching the Conference USA semifinals before earning a spot in the NIT. The Blue Raiders went three overtimes before falling 109-103 to eventual champion Chattanooga in the first round.
Three impact players on the team came via the portal in forward Essam Mostafa (who was second on the team in scoring and led the team in rebounding, starting 33 games) and guards Jlynn Counter (20 starts) and Kamari Lands (13 starts).
Porter entered the portal following the 2023-24 season before withdrawing and rejoining the Blue Raiders.
Cecil Joyce covers high school sports and MTSU athletics for The Daily News Journal. Contact him at cjoyce@dnj.com and follow him on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @Cecil_Joyce.
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