Five-star guard Brayden Burries out of Eleanor Roosevelt High School in San Bernardino, Calif. arrives in Knoxville on Monday night to begin an official visit with Tennessee basketball. Burries will be in attendance for No. 6 UT’s game against No. 14 Mississippi State on Tuesday night before leaving on Wednesday afternoon.

The 6-foot-4, 200-pound Burries is ranked by 247Sports as the No. 9 overall player in the class of 2025, the No. 2 combo-guard and the No. 2 overall player in the state of California. He is the son of former Tennessee softball player Hannah Low-Burries.

“I am just looking forward to meeting with the staff more and seeing how the school is,” Burries recently told 247Sports national basketball analyst Travis Branham about his upcoming visit with the Vols. “Where it’s located, how they run their system, their practice and their games.”

Tennessee visited Burries several times out on the west coast during the fall to watch him play in numerous events. Burries has established a strong relationship with Rick Barnes and UT assistant coach Rod Clark.

“It’s been good,” Burries told Branham about his relationship with Tennessee. “My main point of contact is Coach Rod and Coach Barnes. They have been in contact with me every day and we have been having good conversations. They got a lot of trust in me, they got a lot of belief in me and they’re going to let me play through my mistakes.”

Burries has already taken visits to Arizona, Alabama, SMU and Oregon. He’s also planning to take official visits to UCLA and USC following his trip to Tennessee.

The highly-ranked guard told Branham that he could potentially make a decision towards the end of January, but that it will “most likely (be in) February.

Tennessee signed two players from the class of ’25 during the November signing period in four-star wing Amari Evans and four-star center DeWayne Brown. Evans is ranked as the No. 80 overall player in the country out of Overtime Elite in Atlanta, while Brown is the No. 101 overall prospect out of Hoover High School in the Birmingham, Ala. area.

The Vols signed one player in the 2024 class in current freshman guard Bishop Boswell. Tennessee guards Zakai Zeigler, Chaz Lanier, Jordan Gainey, Jahmai Mashack and Darlinstone Dubar are currently set to run out of eligibility at the end of this season, as will forward Igor Milicic Jr.

Here is 247’s director of scouting Adam Finkelstein’s scouting report on Burries.

“Burries is a big-bodied scoring guard and three-level threat. A bit older for his grade, he turned 19 in September, and is physically mature with an already powerful frame to complement his versatile attack.

“He was a downhill playmaker at an early age, but has developed some real feel and craft as a creator. He lacks the dynamic first-step to rely on blowing right by his defender, and can almost have a slow-mo style with physicality and balance through contact. He can elongate his strides at the end of his drives, has a terrific left hand as both a driver and a finisher, good body control, and can rise-up to hammer big dunks on unsuspecting defenders, even if he worked his way to the rim more gradually.

“Burries also has a very formidable mid-range game. He can dance with his handle to create space for his pull-up, and can also go to a step-back with range out beyond the arc. His shooting numbers from beyond the arc have been streaky this year – 30% in EYBL play (1.4-4.8/game) and 5-28 in three games at HoopHall West – but his release is projectable, even if not totally pure. He has more of a set-shot, with limited elevation, but soft touch. He’s proven he can come off screens and make them on the move, and is always around the rim (i.e. he very rarely has bad misses). He’s also a high percentage free-throw shooter (83% in the EYBL), who utilizes his versatility and physicality to get there in high-volume.

“While he is focused primarily on scoring, Burries possesses soft hands, solid floor vision, and a reliable enough handle to have some on/off ball versatility. He is also an excellent rebounding guard. Defensively, he is fully engaged, physical, and competitive, if not ultra-quick.

“Overall, Burries is a strong and physical scoring guard, who can get his buckets in a variety of ways, but also not one dimensional because of his ability to take reps at the point guard spot, his contributions on the defensive end, the glass, and with the competitiveness of his overall approach.”