Ty Claude

Photo by: Peyton Williams

Photo by: Maggie Hobson

Ty Claude
University of North Carolina Basketball v American
Dean E. Smith Center
Chapel Hill, NC
Friday, November 15, 2024

Photo by: ANTHONY SORBELLINI

Photo by: Maggie Hobson

Height:
6-7
Weight:
230
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Goldsboro, N.C.
High School:
Moravian Prep (Hudson, N.C.)

Came to Carolina after one season at Georgia Tech for his sixth season of college basketball (medical red-shirt in 2020-21) • Has scored 968 points and grabbed 667 rebounds in 122 games • Played previously at Morehead State (parts of two seasons from 2019-22), Western Carolina (2022-23) and Georgia Tech (2023-24) • Played in 30 games as a freshman in 2019-20 then missed the following season and all but nine games in 2021-22 due to a knee injury • Grabbed 40% of his rebounds on the offensive glass • Scored in double figures 46 times with a high of 24 while at WCU vs. Samford on 2/1/23 • Nineteen double-figure rebound games with a high of 17 for WCU at The Citadel on 1/14/23 • Has 15 double-doubles • Scored 20 or more points five times • Scoring high vs. a Power 5 opponent was 18 against Georgia in his first game at WCU.

2024-25: Averaged 1.2 points and 1.6 rebounds • Played in 20 games • Four rebounds vs. San Diego State • Season-high 13 minutes vs. UCLA • Hubert Davis credited his energetic six minutes of play as changing the game in UNC's win over Boston College • Had five rebounds (three offensive) in six minutes vs. La Salle • Was unable to play against Georgia Tech, his former team, due to a right corneal abrasion, an injury that occured in the first half of the Alabama game on 12/4 • Six points and a season-best five rebounds vs. Alabama • Grabbed three rebounds in four minutes at Kansas in his Tar Heel debut • Scored his first seven points as a Tar Heel vs. American.

2023-24 at Georgia Tech: Averaged 4.8 points and 5.2 rebounds in 17.4 minutes per game and shot 49.5% from the floor • Eighth in the ACC in offensive rebounding with 2.4 per game • Was 10th nationally in offensive rebound percentage (.157) • Five or more offensive rebounds five times • Scored in double figures three times with a high of 19 vs. Howard • Season-high 10 rebounds vs. Georgia Southern and Florida State (six offensive vs. the Seminoles) • Eight or more rebounds 10 times, including games against Duke, Clemson, UNC and NC State • Nine points, eight rebounds and three blocks (all in the last seven minutes) in Tech’s 74-73 win over the Tar Heels in Atlanta • Nine points (six in overtime) and eight rebounds in a career-high 38 minutes in a win over Clemson.

2022-23 at Western Carolina: Third-team All-Southern Conference • Averaged 15.4 points and 8.6 rebounds (3.2 offensive), converted 52.3% from the floor and a career-best 72.0% from the line • Totaled 476 points, 266 rebounds (98 offensive) and 28 blocks • Scored in double figures in 30 of 31 games, including a career-high 24 vs. Samford and 21 in consecutive games vs. Tennessee Tech and Toccoa Falls • Had 11 double-doubles • Had 17 points and 17 rebounds vs. The Citadel and 18/13 at VMI • Made the SoCon All-Tournament Team after averaging 15.0 points and eight boards in two games.

2019-22 at Morehead State: Started 19 games as a freshman in 2019-20, averaging 9.5 points and 6.4 rebounds • Shot 59.7% from the floor • Scored in double figures 12 times and had three double-doubles as a freshman • Went 11 for 14 from the floor and scored 23 points, his highest total as an Eagle, vs. Eastern Kentucky on 2/13/20 • Made 10 of 12 from the floor and scored 20 points vs. Tennessee Tech on 1/23/20 • Did not play in 2020-21 due to a knee injury that also limited him to nine games the following season.

Prep: Played his senior season at Moravian Prep after beginning his high school career at Goldsboro High School • Played AAU for Team Loaded NC.