A'lahn Sumler Boosts Pitt Basketball Backcourt With 2026-27 Transfer
A'lahn Sumler is headed to pitt basketball for the 2026-27 men's basketball season, giving the Panthers a 6-foot-4 guard who led the Big South Conference in scoring and assists at Charleston Southern. He arrives with one year of eligibility remaining after a season in which he was the league's most productive offensive player.
Sumler's Charleston Southern Numbers
Sumler started 18 of 28 games in 2025-26 and averaged 18.9 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. He shot 48.0 percent from the field, hitting 191 of 398 attempts, and 39.6 percent from 3-point range on 59 of 149 shots.
Those numbers placed him 53rd nationally in scoring at the end of the regular season. He produced more total points than any player in the Big South during the season, and he was named Big South Player of the Week along the way.
Big South Production at Charleston Southern
Charleston Southern got a full-season scoring load from Sumler after he sat out the 2024-25 season as a redshirt. In 2023-24, he had already earned Big South All-Conference Honorable Mention as the starting shooting guard, averaging 14.2 points per game overall and 16.6 points per game in league play.
He also ranked fifth in the conference in scoring during that 2023-24 campaign and third in Big South games in three-pointers made per game at 2.0. Before that, he began his college career at Northern Kentucky in 2022-23, appearing in 28 games and earning Horizon League Freshman of the Week honors in December.
What Pitt Gets Next
The late-season surge gave Pitt a guard with a track record of finishing possessions and creating shots for others. Sumler reached 1,000 career points and posted his 500th point of the season in the regular-season finale at UNC Asheville on Feb. 28, then capped the year with a 35-point overtime game against USC Upstate on Jan. 14.
He also logged 29 points on 11-of-13 shooting against IU Indy on Nov. 18, 29 points at Gardner-Webb on Dec. 31 and a triple-double of 29 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists against Longwood, the first by a Charleston Southern player since 2020. For Pitt, the transfer adds proven production and one season to use it.
