Middle Tennessee men's basketball has added another transfer to the roster as Head Coach Nick McDevitt has announced that Darnell Butler has signed his grant-in-aid to become a Blue Raider.

Butler, a 6-foot-4 guard, played two years at the junior college level before joining the Division I ranks. He averaged 11.9 points per game for Missouri State-West Plains as a freshman and then transferred to Seminole State College in Oklahoma where he averaged 19.2 points per game with 80 three-pointers, the fifth most in his region. He converted at a rate of 45 percent from beyond the arc as a sophomore.

"Darnell has the ability to score the ball in a variety of ways," McDevitt said. "He shoots it well from behind the arc and is also able to finish inside the lane because of his size and strength."

Last season at Seminole State, Butler was twice named NJCAA Region II Player of the Week while also being named First Team All-Region 2 and All-OCAC. He displayed his impressive shooting ability with an 81.1 percent free throw percentage and 49.1 percent field goal percentage.

"Middle Tennessee is definitely the place for me," Butler said. "I believe in the coaching staff and they think very highly of me. I know playing under this coaching staff I will be held accountable and pushed to my maximum potential. We all want to win games and have fun, but my ultimate goal is to play professional basketball at the highest level and I believe I can achieve that playing under Coach McDevitt."

The Lafayette, Ind., native comes to Middle Tennessee from Missouri State, where he signed out of junior college before being granted his release earlier this summer, and will have two seasons of eligibility remaining in Murfreesboro.

Butler joins fellow Missouri State transfer Reggie Scurry, Arkansas transfer C.J. Jones, Eastern Kentucky transfer DeAndre Dishman and Michigan prep standout Anthony Crump in McDevitt's first signing class at Middle Tennessee.