Paul McMillan IV, one of many top-scoring guards in mid-major basketball, is able to present his skills with HBCU basketball. The main scorer from the MAAC final season has formally transferred to Grambling State College, giving the Tigers a serious backcourt increase heading into the 2025–26 season.
McMillan arrives after a standout 12 months at Canisius, the place he averaged 20.0 factors per recreation—rating second within the MAAC and among the many prime 25 scorers nationally. The Cincinnati native brings veteran expertise and a confirmed scoring capacity to a Grambling staff getting into a brand new period underneath lately employed head coach Patrick Crarey.
Crarey, who spent final season as the pinnacle coach at Florida A&M (FAMU), takes over at Grambling with a fast-paced, high-tempo teaching philosophy that’s anticipated to align completely with McMillan’s dynamic offensive model. His system emphasizes transition play and guard creativity, each strengths of McMillan’s recreation.
McMillan’s faculty journey consists of stops at NJIT and Central Michigan earlier than his breakout season at Canisius, the place he twice scored a career-high 31 factors and have become this system’s first 20 PPG scorer in over a decade. Prior to varsity, he was a highschool standout at Woodward Excessive Faculty (OH), ending with 2,658 profession factors, seventh-most in Ohio historical past.
The switch marks a major addition to the HBCU basketball panorama. As extra high-impact athletes decide to HBCU applications, McMillan’s transfer to Grambling is additional proof of the rising competitiveness and visibility of those establishments on the nationwide degree.
With McMillan within the lineup and Crarey on the sidelines, Grambling is poised to contend within the SWAC and make noise past. For a proud HBCU program, this pairing alerts a strong step ahead.
