The former Musketeers standout could rejoin Sean Miller on the Forty Acres.
A little more than a week after entering the NCAA transfer portal, former Xavier Musketeers rising junior wing visited the Texas Longhorns on Monday.
All I’m saying is a pipeline enchilada from Hula Hut is a hell of a recruiting pitch pic.twitter.com/UcuDE3l1sY
— Hank South (@HankSouth247) March 31, 2025
The visit to the Forty Acres to view his former head coach Sean Miller’s new program comes after Swain took a weekend trip to Ohio State.
BREAKING: After completing his visit at Ohio State this weekend, Dailyn Swain will head to Texas for a visit on Monday and Tuesday.
— The Ohio State Hoops Insider (@OSUHoopsInsider) March 29, 2025
An Ohio native, the 6’8, 220-pounder was a consensus three-star recruit in the 2023 recruiting class ranked inside the top 100, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. Swain chose Xavier over eight reported offers, including Arizona State, Cincinnati, Kansas State, Marquette, Ohio State, and Virginia Tech.
As a freshman, Swain started in three of the 29 games that he played in before an appendectomy kept him out of the final five contests, averaging 4.6 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 1.2 assists per game.
Considered one of the top breakout players for the 2024-25 season by Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports, Swain was exactly that, averaging 11.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists, and 1.6 steals per game. Against Texas in the First Four, Swain’s all-around game showed up with 11 points on 5-of-9 shooting, four rebounds, three assists, and two steals. In the subsequent loss to Illinois, Swain scored a career-high 27 points with eight rebounds, three assists, and three steals, hitting three of his 11 career threes.
So far, Swain hasn’t been a shooter with range, attempting only 54 threes over two seasons and making them at a rate of 20.4 percent. On far twos as a sophomore, Swain wasn’t much better at 33.3 percent, but he is a career 81.6 percent free-throw shooter, suggesting some remaining upside as a shooter.
Where Swain excels offensively is around the rim, finishing second on the team with 24 dunks in 2024-25 while taking nearly 70 percent of his shots around the basket, converting 63.6 percent.
In addition to serving as a solid playmaker for his teammates with an assist rate of 17.6 percent this season, Swain is a strong defensive rebounder at 18.5 percent and an opportunistic defender, leading the Musketeers with 53 steals at an elite rate of 3.2 percent.