2024-2025 at Charleston Southern: Due to injury, Harris Jr. played in only 4 games on the season with a lone appearance in the starting lineup against Georgia Tech (Nov. 27) … Scored 10 total points including a season-high of 8 against LSU (Nov. 19).
2023-2024 at Georgia Southern: Appeared in 24 games, starting two, averaging 5.3 points and 1.1 rebounds ... Shot 38 percent from the floor and 32.3 percent from beyond the three-point line, was an 81 percent free-throw shooter ... Scored in double figures seven times ... Scored a career-high 17 points against East Carolina on 5-7 shooting, also grabbing three boards (Nov. 20) ... Also scored 13 against Northeastern on Nov. 21, averaging 10 ppg in the TowneBank Holiday Classic ... Led Eagles with 13 points at no. 12 Tennessee (Dec. 12) ... Made a career-best four threes, scoring 12 against Southern Miss (Dec. 30) ... Sunk a career-high six field goals, scoring 15 at South Alabama in a season-high 27 minutes (Feb. 7)
2022-2023 at Georgia Southern: Played in 18 contests and averaged 2.4 points per game ... Shot 71 percent from the free-throw line ... Scored a season-high 10 points at Louisiana (1/28) ... Posted a career-high five rebounds vs. James Madison (2/9) ... Posted a season-high four assists vs. Oglethorpe (11/26) ... 2022-23 Sun Belt Academic Honor Roll ... Dean’s List Spring 2023
2021-2022 at Georgia Southern: Played in four games ... Made 3 of 4 from the field with a 3-pointer and tallied seven points and three rebounds.
High School: Ranked as a Top-200 player and the 16th-best combo guard nationally by 247 sports, as well as one of the top-10 player in the state of Georgia by Hoopseen ... Named to McDonald’s All-America nominee list ... Averaged 21.4 points and 4.8 rebounds a game as a senior; named first-team all-region and a GACA North/South All-Star Game participant ... Averaged 21.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists as a junior while leading Mitchell County to a 19-6 record and the A Sweet 16 ... Harris was named first-team all-region, was an all-state nominee and McDonald's All-American nominee and selected to compete in the 2020 GACA North/South All Star Game.Â
Personal: Born Derrick Dewayne Harris Jr. April 8, 2003, in Camilla, Georgia ... The son of Dontressia Williams and Derrick Harris Sr. ... Has four siblings – De’Ericka, his twin sister, Destiny, La’Donna and Derrion ... Derrick Sr. is the head coach of the girls basketball program at Westwood High School in Camilla ... Coach Harris has won three Georgia High School State Championships (2018, 2019, 2020) while at Westwood, and De'Ericka has been a member of each of those championship teams.
