Lamb officially transfers to Mater Dei
Former Colony High School basketball player Tyler Lamb has officially transferred to Santa Ana Mater Dei.
There has been speculation for weeks that the 6-foot-5 junior, who committed to UCLA on Aug. 25, would transfer to the Orange County basketball powerhouuse, but Lamb wouldn't confirm it until he began school this week.
With all that is being written about the transfer, much of it untrue, according to Lamb, the family is guarded about the details of the decision.
Lamb said one of his new teachers told him he read that Mater Dei bought Lamb an apartment in Orange County, something Lamb said couldn't be further from the truth.
"It's a decision he, his mom and I made and there's no two ways about it," Lamb's father Terry said. "People can speculate all they want but we're moving on with it."
Lamb, who averaged who averaged 27 points, eight rebounds, 4.8 assists and 5.3 steals per game as a Colony sophomore, will join the defending state champs, who have a 287-29 record since 2000. The decision to attend Mater Dei, according to Terry Lamb, was primarliy for academic reasons.
"Tyler is going to be a good basketball player no matter where he goes," Terry Lamb said. "This was about preparing him academically. Basketball had very little to do with it. Nothing against the program at Colony. We actually liked (Colony) coach (Jerry) DeFabiis very much. But Tyler did most of his basketball development outside of school anyway."