FIU men’s basketball announced on May 26 the addition of East Carolina transfer Corey Caulker for the 2026-27 season.
Caulker played in all 31 games during his first season at the Division I level with East Carolina, averaging 7.9 points and 3.8 assists per game. He ranked third in the American Athletic Conference in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.4, trailing only Chance Westry of UAB and Jordan Mason of Temple. His totals of 111 assists and an average of 3.8 assists per game placed him eighth in the conference.
In the final stretch of the season, Caulker scored in double figures in six out of seven games, including a Division I career-high double-double with 16 points and 11 assists against Memphis on March 1. The performance marked the fourth-most assists recorded by a player in a single game in East Carolina history. He also made three or more three-pointers in eight contests, achieving a season-best five against Tulsa on March 5, and concluded the year shooting 32.5 percent from beyond the arc.
Before joining East Carolina, Caulker spent two years at junior college programs: he averaged 13.4 points, 4.3 assists, and 3.9 rebounds per game at Eastern Florida State while earning All-FCSAA Team honors and helping lead his team to a quarterfinal appearance in the FCSAA Men’s Basketball Championship; he also played his freshman year at Northern Virginia Community College, where he averaged 23.8 points and 4.5 assists over twenty-three games.
A graduate of Bishop O’Connell High School, Caulker scored over one thousand career points and finished with a three-point shooting percentage of forty-seven percent.
