Swain is a potential candidate to follow Sean Miller to Texas.
With the NCAA transfer portal opening on Monday in college basketball, Xavier Musketeers sophomore wing Dailyn Swain told On3 that he’s entering his name into the portal.
NEWS: Xavier wing Dailyn Swain is entering the transfer portal, he tells @On3sports.
The 6-8 sophomore averaged 11.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game this season. https://t.co/gkFjYwbrii pic.twitter.com/D0OgnIUl25
— Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) March 24, 2025
It’s a notable development for the Texas Longhorns because Swain is one of the most likely candidates to follow Sean Miller from Cincinnati to Austin.
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.