[1] He was the starting guard for four seasons at Xavier and finished his career #12 on the All-Time scoring list (with 1,612 points).
Burell's parents divorced at an early age, leaving him and his brother, James Burrell, to be raised by their mother in her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana.
After completing his high school training, he signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Xavier University.
In his senior season (2007–08), Xavier won its 3rd consecutive Atlantic 10 Championship and earned another berth to the NCAA Tournament (advancing to the Elite Eight before losing to UCLA).
ESPN analyst Jay Bilas had him among his six National Defensive Player of the Year candidates... (Statistics provided by GoXavier.com) After graduating from Xavier University with a Communications and Liberal Arts degree, Burrell attended the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament in Virginia (where he tied the record for most assists in one game: 13 assists) and the 2008 NBA Pre-Draft Camp in Florida.
Burrell signed his first professional basketball contract for 1 year with KK Bosna of the Adriatic League.
After attending free-agent camp with the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies in May 2009, Burrell signed his 2nd professional contract for 1 year with Royal Basket Club Verviers-Pepinster of the Basketball League Belgium (BLB).
At the end of the 2009–10 season with Pepinster, Burrell was signed to a 1-year deal by Generali Okapi Aalstar of the Basketball League Belgium (BLB).
In 2010, Burrell began his 3rd professional basketball season as point guard for Generali Okapi Aalstar.
[3] On February 17, 2015, he left Minsk (For a team financial crisis that resulted in late payments to all players) and signed with Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israeli League.