Texas Tech basketball: What to expect from new transfer Jamarius Burton

Career stats and background

Burton is a 6-foot-4 guard from Charlotte, North Carolina who spent the last two seasons at Wichita State.  There he averaged 7.9 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 3.5 assists per game over the course of his two years.

He’s started 52 of 67 games thus far.  That includes 24 of 30 this past season.

Overall, he’s a 44.1% shooter from the floor.  That includes 33.7% from behind the arc.  Additionally, he has shot 68.3% from the free-throw stripe.

When you look at his advanced statistical metrics, you find that his overall offensive rating (an estimation of the number of points he would be responsible for per 100 possessions through scoring or assisting others) has been 100.3 for his career.  For reference, every Red Raider except Andrei Savrasov, Clarence Nadolny, and RussellTchewa had offensive ratings of at least 103.0 in 2019-20.

Defensively, his career rating (the estimation of points he allows per 100 possessions) is 99.5.  That would have been the lowest on last year’s Red Raider team.

This is also a player who does not shoot it from 3-point range all that often.  For his career, only 22.1% of his shots have come from behind the arc.  That would have been 7th-lowest on this season’s Red Raider squad.  Tech’s three starting guards, Davide Moretti (60.1%), Jahmi’us Ramsey (42.1%), and Kyler Edwards (48.5%) all averaged nearly twice that percentage and in Moretti’s case, it was nearly three times as high.

Going back to Burton’s high school days, he was the No. 408 player in the nation in 2018 and the No. 32 combo guard in that class.  He held offers from only one high-major program, Penn State, while also being offered by Butler, George Mason, UMASS, Temple, East Carolina, and more.

Ultimately, he picked Wichita State where he started 28 of 37 games as a true freshman.  But it was as a sophomore when he really stepped up his game.