The 2024 Transfer Portal

[MChambers]

Evan Miya -- How to Build a Roster in this ERA

Article by Evan Miya about how to build a roster these days: https://blog.evanmiya.com/p/how-to-build-a-roster-in-the-modern

"Based on the results of this study, the most crucial factor to team success, beyond prioritizing good players, is trying to maximize the role returning players will play. Having returners take up at least 50% of the minutes played is a safe benchmark, but teams with an even higher percentage are likelier to play well.

A secondary takeaway is this: Teams that prioritize recruiting (or retaining) players who will play for them for multiple years will reap the benefits down the road. The true value of a freshman or transfer can often come in the 2nd or 3rd year that he plays for the same team. Given how much more success teams with returning players have, it is wiser to recruit a player who is more likely to play multiple years at your school than a similarly skilled player who will just play one season and graduate or transfer away."

 

[budwom]

Article by Evan Miya about how to build a roster these days: https://blog.evanmiya.com/p/how-to-build-a-roster-in-the-modern

"Based on the results of this study, the most crucial factor to team success, beyond prioritizing good players, is trying to maximize the role returning players will play. Having returners take up at least 50% of the minutes played is a safe benchmark, but teams with an even higher percentage are likelier to play well.

A secondary takeaway is this: Teams that prioritize recruiting (or retaining) players who will play for them for multiple years will reap the benefits down the road. The true value of a freshman or transfer can often come in the 2nd or 3rd year that he plays for the same team. Given how much more success teams with returning players have, it is wiser to recruit a player who is more likely to play multiple years at your school than a similarly skilled player who will just play one season and graduate or transfer away."

The secondary takeaway is SO much easier said than done...recruiting guys who will play for multiple years? Ya, nice goal, but stuff gets in the way of that happening...if they're great, they play one year and leave; if they seem to be of multi year talent, many get frustrated when they don't start or play much. Just look at our departures this past year.

 

[SkyBrickey]

If Duke wins a championship this year, it will blow Evan Miya's thesis out of the water...

But I do hope there's a big focus on keeping four of these freshmen around for their sophomore year. I expect there will be.

 

[dlmzzz]

One of the college basketball podcasts (Locked On) reported today that Arthur Kaluma (6'7" wing out of Kansas State, honorable mention All-Big12) is taking a visit to SMU. It makes me suspect their NIL program is pretty well funded (have to assume that Andy Enfield pushed hard on that front when he took the job), and they may start recruiting at a higher level now that they have upgraded conferences (as UCF has, for instance).

 

[scottdude8]

If Duke wins a championship this year, it will blow Evan Miya's thesis out of the water...

But I do hope there's a big focus on keeping four of these freshmen around for their sophomore year. I expect there will be.

Well I would imagine anyone who is a quantitative person (which it sounds like Evan is) would acknowledge that any thesis about "how to win in the era of the transfer portal" is inherently flawed by the fact that we've only been in this era for at most 4ish years, and even in that time one could argue any data is skewed by UConn's dominance (so whatever they did is going to seem like the template, even if it is potentially an aberration). Add in the fact that the last few years of freshmen were also abnormal due to COVID, and drawing any conclusions that speak overwhelmingly negatively (or positively) to Duke's chances would be a miscarriage of mathematical justice.

 

[MChambers]

Miya and Duke

If Duke wins a championship this year, it will blow Evan Miya's thesis out of the water...

But I do hope there's a big focus on keeping four of these freshmen around for their sophomore year. I expect there will be.

Miya addresses Duke's reliance on freshmen and says given the talent level, Duke will be just fine.

 

[SkyBrickey]

Well I would imagine anyone who is a quantitative person (which it sounds like Evan is) would acknowledge that any thesis about "how to win in the era of the transfer portal" is inherently flawed by the fact that we've only been in this era for at most 4ish years, and even in that time one could argue any data is skewed by UConn's dominance (so whatever they did is going to seem like the template, even if it is potentially an aberration). Add in the fact that the last few years of freshmen were also abnormal due to COVID, and drawing any conclusions that speak overwhelmingly negatively (or positively) to Duke's chances would be a miscarriage of mathematical justice.

Ha. Well said.

An extrapolation of his overall point might hold with this Duke team. With 9 of our top 11 guys as new to the system, it would seem to point to Jon trying to lock guys into roles as early as he can vs experimenting with lots of different lineups.

One example of this is Brendan Marks saying he expects Maluach to start from day 1 and play through his growing pains. This probably makes sense for our national title hopes even if we might be stronger day 1 starting Brown at the 5.

Wouldn't it be something if 6 of our top 8 players next year were returnees? Evan would like that. Has he met Goldilocks?

 

[brevity]

I guess I can start making this a weekly post. Call it Transfer Tuesday.

Previous Posts:

March 19 (464 players in the transfer portal)
April 2 (1,323 players)
April 9 (1,534 players)
April 16 (1,692 players)
April 23 (1,790 players)
April 30 (1,950 players)
May 7 (2,025 players)
May 14 (2,029 players)
May 21 (2,032 players)
May 28 (2,035 players)
June 4 (2,039 players)
June 11 (2,041 players)

It's June 18 and Verbal Commits shows 2,043 Division I transfers.

The 11 outgoing ACC+3 players who were uncommitted last week are still uncommitted:

Raheem Braiton, Notre Dame
Nick Cassano, Miami
Tyzhaun Claude, Georgia Tech
Gus Larson, California
Hercy Miller, Louisville
Damari Monsanto, Wake Forest
Mo Njie, SMU
Alex Nunnally, NC State
Desmond Roberts, Virginia
Wrenn Robinson, California
Alex Wade, Notre Dame

Not many changes/additions to my list in the past week. 6-4 wing Elijah Davis, son of Hubert Davis and a Division III player the past 3 years, personally announced he would join UNC for his senior season. There's no formal school announcement yet, and while it's been suggested he'll come in as a walk-on, that's not official either. The Heels currently have 2 scholarships available.

Armani Mighty, a former Boston College player who would have had the best name in the ACC last season if not for Wooga Poplar, originally decided to transfer to Buffalo in April, but recently decommitted and is now headed to Central Michigan. He's a 6-10 reserve center. This means that Carolina missed out on him twice, and I think that's funny.

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Boston College

6 OUT
Prince Aligbe (to Seton Hall)
Claudell Harris Jr (to Mississippi State)
Mason Madsen (to Utah)
Devin McGlockton (to Vanderbilt)
Armani Mighty (to Central Michigan)
Jaeden Zackery (to Clemson)

4 IN
Joshua Beadle (from Clemson)
Dion Brown (from UMBC)
Roger McFarlane (from SE Louisiana)
Chad Venning (from St. Bonaventure)

California

8 OUT
Devin Askew (to Long Beach State)
Monty Bowser (to Northern Arizona)
Rodney Brown Jr (to Virginia Tech)
Jalen Celestine (to Baylor)
Gus Larson
Grant Newell (to North Texas)
ND Okafor (to Washington State)
Wrenn Robinson

9 IN
Jovan Blacksher Jr (from Grand Canyon)
DJ Campbell (from Western Carolina)
Lee Dort (from Vanderbilt)
Joshua Ola-Joseph (from Minnesota)
BJ Omot (from North Dakota)
Rytis Petraitis (from Air Force)
Mady Sissoko (from Michigan State)
Andrej Stojaković (from Stanford)
Christian Tucker (from UTSA)

Clemson

4 OUT
Joshua Beadle (to Boston College)
Jack Clark (to VCU)
RJ Godfrey (to Georgia)
Alex Hemenway (to Vanderbilt)

4 IN
Myles Foster (from Illinois State)
Viktor Lakhin (from Cincinnati)
Christian Reeves (from Duke)
Jaeden Zackery (from Boston College)

Duke

7 OUT
Jaylen Blakes (to Stanford)
Mark Mitchell Jr (to Missouri)
TJ Power (to Virginia)
Christian Reeves (to Clemson)
Jeremy Roach (to Baylor)
Jaden Schutt (to Virginia Tech)
Sean Stewart (to Ohio State)

4 IN
Maliq Brown (from Syracuse)
Mason Gillis (from Purdue)
Sion James (from Tulane)
Cameron Sheffield (from Rice)

Florida State

10 OUT
Sola Adebisi (to The Citadel)
Cameron Corhen (to Pittsburgh)
Cam'Ron Fletcher (to Xavier)
De'Ante Green (to South Florida)
Tom House (to Furman)
Waka Mbatch (withdrawn, back to Florida State)
Baba Miller (to Florida Atlantic)
Amir Spears (to UTSA)
Jalen Warley (to Virginia)
Jamir Watkins (withdrawn, back to Florida State)

4 IN
Jerry Deng (from Hampton)
Malique Ewin (from JUCO/South Plains)
Bostyn Holt (from South Dakota)
Justin Thomas (from UTSA)

Georgia Tech

7 OUT
Amaree Abram (to Louisiana Tech)
Tyzhaun Claude
Dallan Coleman (to UCF)
Ebenezer Dowuona (to James Madison)
Tafara Gapare (to Maryland)
Miles Kelly (to Auburn)
Ibrahima Sacko (to New Mexico)

3 IN
Javian McCollum (from Oklahoma)
Ryan Mutombo (from Georgetown)
Luke O'Brien (from Colorado)

Louisville

13 OUT
Skyy Clark (to UCLA)
Koron Davis (to Louisiana)
Dennis Evans (to Grand Canyon)
Kaleb Glenn (to Florida Atlantic)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (to NC State)
Mike James (to NC State)
Ty-Laur Johnson (to Wake Forest)
Danilo Jovanovich (to Milwaukee)
Hercy Miller
Emmanuel Okorafor (to Seton Hall)
JJ Traynor (to DePaul)
Tre White (to Illinois)
Curtis Williams (to Georgetown)

12 IN
Frank Anselem-Ibe (from Georgia)
Terrence Edwards Jr (from James Madison)
J'Vonne Hadley (from Colorado)
Chucky Hepburn (from Wisconsin)
Koren Johnson (from Washington)
Aly Khalifa (from BYU)
Kasean Pryor (from South Florida)
Kobe Rodgers (from Charleston)
James Scott (from Charleston)
Reyne Smith (from Charleston)
Aboubacar Traoré (from Long Beach State)
Noah Waterman (from BYU)

Miami

8 OUT
AJ Casey (to St. Louis)
Nick Cassano
Bensley Joseph (to Providence)
Michael Nwoko (to Mississippi State)
Norchad Omier (to Baylor)
Wooga Poplar (to Villanova)
Jakai Robinson (to Bryant)
Christian Watson (to Southern Miss)

6 IN
Yussif Basa-Ama (from Yale)
Jalen Blackmon (from Stetson)
Kiree Huie (from Idaho State)
Brandon Johnson (from East Carolina)
Lynn Kidd (from Virginia Tech)
AJ Staton-McCray (from Samford)

NC State

4 OUT
Alex Nunnally
Ernest Ross (withdrawn, back to NC State)
LJ Thomas (to Austin Peay)
Kam Woods (to Robert Morris)

4 IN
Marcus Hill (from Bowling Green)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (from Louisville)
Mike James (from Louisville)
Dontrez Styles (from Georgetown)

North Carolina

2 OUT
James Okonkwo (to Akron)
Seth Trimble (withdrawn, back to UNC)

3 IN
Elijah Davis (from Division III Lynchburg)
Ven-Allen Lubin (from Vanderbilt)
Cade Tyson (from Belmont)

Notre Dame

4 OUT
Carey Booth (to Illinois)
Raheem Braiton
Alex Wade
Matt Zona (to Fordham)

3 IN
Matt Allocco (from Princeton)
Burke Chebuhar (from Lehigh)
Nikita Konstantynovskyi (from Monmouth)

Pittsburgh

2 OUT
Federiko Federiko (to Texas Tech)
William Jeffress (to Louisiana Tech)

2 IN
Cameron Corhen (from Florida State)
Damian Dunn (from Houston)

SMU

9 OUT
Denver Anglin (to Rice)
Xavier Foster (to Radford)
Ja'Heim Hudson (to Auburn)
Jefferson Koulibaly (to Pacific)
Mo Njie
Zhuric Phelps (to Texas A&M)
Jalen Smith (to Rice)
Tyreek Smith (to Memphis)
Ricardo Wright (to Kennesaw State)

7 IN
Jerrell Colbert (from Kansas State)
Matt Cross (from Massachusetts)
AJ George (from Long Beach State)
Tibet Gorener (from San Jose State)
Kevin Miller (from Wake Forest)
Kario Oquendo (from Oregon)
Yohan Traore (from UCSB)

Stanford

5 OUT
Brandon Angel (to Oregon)
Kanaan Carlyle (to Indiana)
Max Murrell (to UC Santa Barbara)
Maxime Reynaud (withdrawn, back to Stanford)
Andrej Stojaković (to California)

5 IN
Jaylen Blakes (from Duke)
Cole Kastner (from Virginia LAX)
Chisom Okpara (from Harvard)
Derin Saran (from UC Irvine)
Oziyah Sellers (from USC)

Syracuse

6 OUT
Maliq Brown (to Duke)
Peter Carey (to Siena)
Quadir Copeland (to McNeese)
Mounir Hima (to Howard)
William Patterson (to High Point)
Justin Taylor (to James Madison)

4 IN
Jaquan Carlos (from Hofstra)
Jyáre Davis (from Delaware)
Eddie Lampkin Jr (from Colorado)
Lucas Taylor (from Georgia State)

Virginia

4 OUT
Leon Bond III (to Northern Iowa)
Dante Harris (withdrawn; back to Virginia as a walk-on)
Tristan How (to NYU)
Desmond Roberts

5 IN
Darrin Ames (from Kansas State)
Carter Lang (from Vanderbilt)
TJ Power (from Duke)
Elijah Saunders (from San Diego State)
Jalen Warley (from Florida State)

Virginia Tech

7 OUT
John Camden (to Delaware)
MJ Collins (to Vanderbilt)
Lynn Kidd (to Miami)
Tyler Nickel (to Vanderbilt)
Sean Pedulla (to Ole Miss)
Mylyjael Poteat (withdrawn, back to Virginia Tech)
Rodney Rice (to Maryland)

5 IN
Rodney Brown Jr (from California)
Ben Burnham (from Charleston)
Toibu Lawal (from VCU)
Hysier Miller (from Temple)
Jaden Schutt (from Duke)

Wake Forest

8 OUT
Abramo Canka (to Stetson)
Andrew Carr (to Kentucky)
Aaron Clark (to Pepperdine)
Jao Ituka (to Jacksonville State)
Zach Keller (to Utah)
Matthew Marsh (to Oregon State)
Kevin Miller (to SMU)
Damari Monsanto

5 IN
Churchill Abass (from DePaul)
Omaha Biliew (from Iowa State)
Davin Cosby Jr (from Alabama)
Ty-Laur Johnson (from Louisville)
Tre'Von Spillers (from Appalachian State)

 

[brevity]

The transfer portal is not as unsettled as has been recently reported. The numbers often mentioned will combine Division I and Division II; the commitment level crossed 50 percent sometime in May, and it's at about 57 percent now, which means about 43 percent are still without a school:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803790275120124385

But if you stick to Division I, you'll see that the number of undecideds goes down to just under 35 percent (712 out of 2035):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1804522294015840704

Doing the math, that means 598 out of 1020 Division II transfers still haven't made their move, which is close to 59 percent. I don't know anything about Division II, so I couldn't tell you if it's normal to see their teams have to complete their rosters closer to the start of the school year.

 

[JasonEvans]

Doing the math, that means 598 out of 1020 Division II transfers still haven't made their move, which is close to 59 percent. I don't know anything about Division II, so I couldn't tell you if it's normal to see their teams have to complete their rosters closer to the start of the school year.

I would imagine that at least some of the DII portal folks are hoping to find a spot on a D1 roster for next season. Not saying it is likely but I am sure a bunch of them are holding out hope.

 

[brevity]

I guess I can start making this a weekly post. Call it Transfer Tuesday.

Previous Posts:

March 19 (464 players in the transfer portal)
April 2 (1,323 players)
April 9 (1,534 players)
April 16 (1,692 players)
April 23 (1,790 players)
April 30 (1,950 players)
May 7 (2,025 players)
May 14 (2,029 players)
May 21 (2,032 players)
May 28 (2,035 players)
June 4 (2,039 players)
June 11 (2,041 players)
June 18 (2,043 players)

Housekeeping note: old links to old threads do not work on the new board -- the URL is slightly different now -- so I fixed all the links above.

It's June 25 and for the first time this offseason, the number of transfers is the same as it was last week, according to Verbal Commits. We're holding steady at 2,043.

Two additions to the ACC this week. Duncan Powell, a 6-8 forward who averaged 12-7-2 at Sacramento State last season, decommitted from Louisiana and is now transferring to Georgia Tech. Ismael Diouf is a 6-9 forward who's Wolfpack-bound and will play for Kevin Keatts; he's from Canada, they met at Niagara Falls. Both players have 2 more seasons of eligibility.

Two subtractions as well. NC State announced today that Ernest Ross and MJ Rice have left the program. Ross entered the portal and may have committed to UTSA, but he eventually withdrew to return to the Pack, and now he's leaving again. The situation with Rice is stickier; even though he took time away from the team last season, he did not enter the portal. He may need some special NCAA clearance if he wants to play college ball in 2024-2025.

I've added Ernest Ross to the list of outgoing ACC+3 players in the portal with no destination yet. I've seen a few of them pictured in caps and gowns, so they could elect to be done with college and not take that fifth year of eligibility, and would have no real reason to inform the NCAA/transfer portal people of their decisions. I'll keep an eye out, but it's going to be a lazy eye.

Raheem Braiton, Notre Dame
Nick Cassano, Miami
Tyzhaun Claude, Georgia Tech
Gus Larson, California
Hercy Miller, Louisville
Damari Monsanto, Wake Forest
Mo Njie, SMU
Alex Nunnally, NC State
Desmond Roberts, Virginia
Wrenn Robinson, California
Ernest Ross, NC State
Alex Wade, Notre Dame

There's now a 10,000 character limit on posts -- leave it to me to discover that -- so the team-by-team list follows, hopefully in one post.

 

[brevity]

Boston College

6 OUT
Prince Aligbe (to Seton Hall)
Claudell Harris Jr (to Mississippi State)
Mason Madsen (to Utah)
Devin McGlockton (to Vanderbilt)
Armani Mighty (to Central Michigan)
Jaeden Zackery (to Clemson)
4 IN
Joshua Beadle (from Clemson)
Dion Brown (from UMBC)
Roger McFarlane (from SE Louisiana)
Chad Venning (from St. Bonaventure)

California

8 OUT
Devin Askew (to Long Beach State)
Monty Bowser (to Northern Arizona)
Rodney Brown Jr (to Virginia Tech)
Jalen Celestine (to Baylor)
Gus Larson
Grant Newell (to North Texas)
ND Okafor (to Washington State)
Wrenn Robinson

9 IN
Jovan Blacksher Jr (from Grand Canyon)
DJ Campbell (from Western Carolina)
Lee Dort (from Vanderbilt)
Joshua Ola-Joseph (from Minnesota)
BJ Omot (from North Dakota)
Rytis Petraitis (from Air Force)
Mady Sissoko (from Michigan State)
Andrej Stojaković (from Stanford)
Christian Tucker (from UTSA)

Clemson

4 OUT
Joshua Beadle (to Boston College)
Jack Clark (to VCU)
RJ Godfrey (to Georgia)
Alex Hemenway (to Vanderbilt)

4 IN
Myles Foster (from Illinois State)
Viktor Lakhin (from Cincinnati)
Christian Reeves (from Duke)
Jaeden Zackery (from Boston College)

Duke

7 OUT
Jaylen Blakes (to Stanford)
Mark Mitchell Jr (to Missouri)
TJ Power (to Virginia)
Christian Reeves (to Clemson)
Jeremy Roach (to Baylor)
Jaden Schutt (to Virginia Tech)
Sean Stewart (to Ohio State)

4 IN
Maliq Brown (from Syracuse)
Mason Gillis (from Purdue)
Sion James (from Tulane)
Cameron Sheffield (from Rice)

Florida State

10 OUT
Sola Adebisi (to The Citadel)
Cameron Corhen (to Pittsburgh)
Cam'Ron Fletcher (to Xavier)
De'Ante Green (to South Florida)
Tom House (to Furman)
Waka Mbatch (withdrawn, back to Florida State)
Baba Miller (to Florida Atlantic)
Amir Spears (to UTSA)
Jalen Warley (to Virginia)
Jamir Watkins (withdrawn, back to Florida State)

4 IN
Jerry Deng (from Hampton)
Malique Ewin (from JUCO/South Plains)
Bostyn Holt (from South Dakota)
Justin Thomas (from UTSA)

Georgia Tech

7 OUT
Amaree Abram (to Louisiana Tech)
Tyzhaun Claude
Dallan Coleman (to UCF)
Ebenezer Dowuona (to James Madison)
Tafara Gapare (to Maryland)
Miles Kelly (to Auburn)
Ibrahima Sacko (to New Mexico)

4 IN
Javian McCollum (from Oklahoma)
Ryan Mutombo (from Georgetown)
Luke O'Brien (from Colorado)
Duncan Powell (from Sacramento State)

Louisville

13 OUT
Skyy Clark (to UCLA)
Koron Davis (to Louisiana)
Dennis Evans (to Grand Canyon)
Kaleb Glenn (to Florida Atlantic)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (to NC State)
Mike James (to NC State)
Ty-Laur Johnson (to Wake Forest)
Danilo Jovanovich (to Milwaukee)
Hercy Miller
Emmanuel Okorafor (to Seton Hall)
JJ Traynor (to DePaul)
Tre White (to Illinois)
Curtis Williams (to Georgetown)

12 IN
Frank Anselem-Ibe (from Georgia)
Terrence Edwards Jr (from James Madison)
J'Vonne Hadley (from Colorado)
Chucky Hepburn (from Wisconsin)
Koren Johnson (from Washington)
Aly Khalifa (from BYU)
Kasean Pryor (from South Florida)
Kobe Rodgers (from Charleston)
James Scott (from Charleston)
Reyne Smith (from Charleston)
Aboubacar Traoré (from Long Beach State)
Noah Waterman (from BYU)

Miami

8 OUT
AJ Casey (to St. Louis)
Nick Cassano
Bensley Joseph (to Providence)
Michael Nwoko (to Mississippi State)
Norchad Omier (to Baylor)
Wooga Poplar (to Villanova)
Jakai Robinson (to Bryant)
Christian Watson (to Southern Miss)

6 IN
Yussif Basa-Ama (from Yale)
Jalen Blackmon (from Stetson)
Kiree Huie (from Idaho State)
Brandon Johnson (from East Carolina)
Lynn Kidd (from Virginia Tech)
AJ Staton-McCray (from Samford)

NC State

4 OUT
Alex Nunnally
Ernest Ross
LJ Thomas (to Austin Peay)
Kam Woods (to Robert Morris)

5 IN
Ismael Diouf (from Université Laval, Canada)
Marcus Hill (from Bowling Green)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (from Louisville)
Mike James (from Louisville)
Dontrez Styles (from Georgetown)

North Carolina

2 OUT
James Okonkwo (to Akron)
Seth Trimble (withdrawn, back to UNC)

3 IN
Elijah Davis (from Division III Lynchburg)
Ven-Allen Lubin (from Vanderbilt)
Cade Tyson (from Belmont)

Notre Dame

4 OUT
Carey Booth (to Illinois)
Raheem Braiton
Alex Wade
Matt Zona (to Fordham)

3 IN
Matt Allocco (from Princeton)
Burke Chebuhar (from Lehigh)
Nikita Konstantynovskyi (from Monmouth)

Pittsburgh

2 OUT
Federiko Federiko (to Texas Tech)
William Jeffress (to Louisiana Tech)

2 IN
Cameron Corhen (from Florida State)
Damian Dunn (from Houston)

SMU

9 OUT
Denver Anglin (to Rice)
Xavier Foster (to Radford)
Ja'Heim Hudson (to Auburn)
Jefferson Koulibaly (to Pacific)
Mo Njie
Zhuric Phelps (to Texas A&M)
Jalen Smith (to Rice)
Tyreek Smith (to Memphis)
Ricardo Wright (to Kennesaw State)

7 IN
Jerrell Colbert (from Kansas State)
Matt Cross (from Massachusetts)
AJ George (from Long Beach State)
Tibet Gorener (from San Jose State)
Kevin Miller (from Wake Forest)
Kario Oquendo (from Oregon)
Yohan Traore (from UCSB)

Stanford

5 OUT
Brandon Angel (to Oregon)
Kanaan Carlyle (to Indiana)
Max Murrell (to UC Santa Barbara)
Maxime Reynaud (withdrawn, back to Stanford)
Andrej Stojaković (to California)

5 IN
Jaylen Blakes (from Duke)
Cole Kastner (from Virginia LAX)
Chisom Okpara (from Harvard)
Derin Saran (from UC Irvine)
Oziyah Sellers (from USC)

Syracuse

6 OUT
Maliq Brown (to Duke)
Peter Carey (to Siena)
Quadir Copeland (to McNeese)
Mounir Hima (to Howard)
William Patterson (to High Point)
Justin Taylor (to James Madison)

4 IN
Jaquan Carlos (from Hofstra)
Jyáre Davis (from Delaware)
Eddie Lampkin Jr (from Colorado)
Lucas Taylor (from Georgia State)

Virginia

4 OUT
Leon Bond III (to Northern Iowa)
Dante Harris (withdrawn; back to Virginia as a walk-on)
Tristan How (to NYU)
Desmond Roberts

5 IN
Darrin Ames (from Kansas State)
Carter Lang (from Vanderbilt)
TJ Power (from Duke)
Elijah Saunders (from San Diego State)
Jalen Warley (from Florida State)

Virginia Tech

7 OUT
John Camden (to Delaware)
MJ Collins (to Vanderbilt)
Lynn Kidd (to Miami)
Tyler Nickel (to Vanderbilt)
Sean Pedulla (to Ole Miss)
Mylyjael Poteat (withdrawn, back to Virginia Tech)
Rodney Rice (to Maryland)

5 IN
Rodney Brown Jr (from California)
Ben Burnham (from Charleston)
Toibu Lawal (from VCU)
Hysier Miller (from Temple)
Jaden Schutt (from Duke)

Wake Forest

8 OUT
Abramo Canka (to Stetson)
Andrew Carr (to Kentucky)
Aaron Clark (to Pepperdine)
Jao Ituka (to Jacksonville State)
Zach Keller (to Utah)
Matthew Marsh (to Oregon State)
Kevin Miller (to SMU)
Damari Monsanto

5 IN
Churchill Abass (from DePaul)
Omaha Biliew (from Iowa State)
Davin Cosby Jr (from Alabama)
Ty-Laur Johnson (from Louisville)
Tre'Von Spillers (from Appalachian State)

 

[brevity]

Previous Posts:

March 19 (464 players in the transfer portal)
April 2 (1,323 players)
April 9 (1,534 players)
April 16 (1,692 players)
April 23 (1,790 players)
April 30 (1,950 players)
May 7 (2,025 players)
May 14 (2,029 players)
May 21 (2,032 players)
May 28 (2,035 players)
June 4 (2,039 players)
June 11 (2,041 players)
June 18 (2,043 players)

Housekeeping note: old links to old threads do not work on the new board -- the URL is slightly different now -- so I fixed all the links above.

Well, I thought I fixed the old links. Too late to edit, so let's try that again.

Previous posts:

March 19 (464 players in the transfer portal)
April 2 (1,323 players)
April 9 (1,534 players)
April 16 (1,692 players)
April 23 (1,790 players)
April 30 (1,950 players)
May 7 (2,025 players)
May 14 (2,029 players)
May 21 (2,032 players)
May 28 (2,035 players)
June 4 (2,039 players)
June 11 (2,041 players)
June 18 (2,043 players)

 

[brevity]

So much for some last-minute star power in the ACC. Arthur Kaluma picks Texas over SMU.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1806424156759785881

 

[brevity]

I guess I can start making this a weekly post. Call it Transfer Tuesday.

Previous Posts:

March 19 (464 players in the transfer portal)
April 2 (1,323 players)
April 9 (1,534 players)
April 16 (1,692 players)
April 23 (1,790 players)
April 30 (1,950 players)
May 7 (2,025 players)
May 14 (2,029 players)
May 21 (2,032 players)
May 28 (2,035 players)
June 4 (2,039 players)
June 11 (2,041 players)
June 18 (2,043 players)
June 25 (2,043 players)

We've reached July 2 and Verbal Commits is slowly filling in the blanks. I've made four changes to the list below.

First, California used its last scholarship on Spencer Mahoney, a 6-9 forward who redshirted as a freshman at Washington State last season. He's abandoning that sinking ship, and will have 4 years of eligibility.

Second, Desmond Roberts of Virginia, who also redshirted as a freshman before entering the portal, is back in Charlottesville. He's on the 2024-25 roster and is mentioned as a returning player in this article on the team's website. That's good enough for me.

Third, Alex Nunnally, a 6-2 guard and former walk-on, graduated from NC State and transferred to NAIA school Texas A&M-San Antonio. To say he played sparingly for the Wolfpack is an understatement -- 27 total minutes in 3 seasons -- so I imagine he'll play more in his final season of eligibility. The departure is a little bittersweet; his father is also an NCSU graduate, and they are close to the family of 1983 champion Dereck Whittenburg. This post from the DW Foundation congratulates Alex and calls him an "adopted nephew":

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786827943517306996

Fourth and finally, it was announced earlier today that former Wake Forest player Damari Monsanto is now also in San Antonio, but at Division I team UTSA. They didn't have the press of Arkansas or Louisville, but the Roadrunners had to completely replace their roster this offseason (13 out, 12 in) after a coaching change. You'll see UTSA a few more times below: Amir "Primo" Spears (from FSU), Justin Thomas (to FSU), and Christian Tucker (to Cal).

We are now down to nine ACC+3 players without a basketball home next season:

Raheem Braiton, Notre Dame
Nick Cassano, Miami
Tyzhaun Claude, Georgia Tech
Gus Larson, California
Hercy Miller, Louisville
Mo Njie, SMU
Wrenn Robinson, California
Ernest Ross, NC State
Alex Wade, Notre Dame

The complete list will appear in the next post.

 

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Boston College

6 OUT
Prince Aligbe (to Seton Hall)
Claudell Harris Jr (to Mississippi State)
Mason Madsen (to Utah)
Devin McGlockton (to Vanderbilt)
Armani Mighty (to Central Michigan)
Jaeden Zackery (to Clemson)

4 IN
Joshua Beadle (from Clemson)
Dion Brown (from UMBC)
Roger McFarlane (from SE Louisiana)
Chad Venning (from St. Bonaventure)

California

8 OUT
Devin Askew (to Long Beach State)
Monty Bowser (to Northern Arizona)
Rodney Brown Jr (to Virginia Tech)
Jalen Celestine (to Baylor)
Gus Larson
Grant Newell (to North Texas)
ND Okafor (to Washington State)
Wrenn Robinson

10 IN
Jovan Blacksher Jr (from Grand Canyon)
DJ Campbell (from Western Carolina)
Lee Dort (from Vanderbilt)
Spencer Mahoney (from Washington State)
Joshua Ola-Joseph (from Minnesota)
BJ Omot (from North Dakota)
Rytis Petraitis (from Air Force)
Mady Sissoko (from Michigan State)
Andrej Stojaković (from Stanford)
Christian Tucker (from UTSA)

Clemson

4 OUT
Joshua Beadle (to Boston College)
Jack Clark (to VCU)
RJ Godfrey (to Georgia)
Alex Hemenway (to Vanderbilt)

4 IN
Myles Foster (from Illinois State)
Viktor Lakhin (from Cincinnati)
Christian Reeves (from Duke)
Jaeden Zackery (from Boston College)

Duke

7 OUT
Jaylen Blakes (to Stanford)
Mark Mitchell Jr (to Missouri)
TJ Power (to Virginia)
Christian Reeves (to Clemson)
Jeremy Roach (to Baylor)
Jaden Schutt (to Virginia Tech)
Sean Stewart (to Ohio State)

4 IN
Maliq Brown (from Syracuse)
Mason Gillis (from Purdue)
Sion James (from Tulane)
Cameron Sheffield (from Rice)

Florida State

10 OUT
Sola Adebisi (to The Citadel)
Cameron Corhen (to Pittsburgh)
Cam'Ron Fletcher (to Xavier)
De'Ante Green (to South Florida)
Tom House (to Furman)
Waka Mbatch (withdrawn, back to Florida State)
Baba Miller (to Florida Atlantic)
Amir Spears (to UTSA)
Jalen Warley (to Virginia)
Jamir Watkins (withdrawn, back to Florida State)

4 IN
Jerry Deng (from Hampton)
Malique Ewin (from JUCO/South Plains)
Bostyn Holt (from South Dakota)
Justin Thomas (from UTSA)

Georgia Tech

7 OUT
Amaree Abram (to Louisiana Tech)
Tyzhaun Claude
Dallan Coleman (to UCF)
Ebenezer Dowuona (to James Madison)
Tafara Gapare (to Maryland)
Miles Kelly (to Auburn)
Ibrahima Sacko (to New Mexico)

4 IN
Javian McCollum (from Oklahoma)
Ryan Mutombo (from Georgetown)
Luke O'Brien (from Colorado)
Duncan Powell (from Sacramento State)

Louisville

13 OUT
Skyy Clark (to UCLA)
Koron Davis (to Louisiana)
Dennis Evans (to Grand Canyon)
Kaleb Glenn (to Florida Atlantic)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (to NC State)
Mike James (to NC State)
Ty-Laur Johnson (to Wake Forest)
Danilo Jovanovich (to Milwaukee)
Hercy Miller
Emmanuel Okorafor (to Seton Hall)
JJ Traynor (to DePaul)
Tre White (to Illinois)
Curtis Williams (to Georgetown)

12 IN
Frank Anselem-Ibe (from Georgia)
Terrence Edwards Jr (from James Madison)
J'Vonne Hadley (from Colorado)
Chucky Hepburn (from Wisconsin)
Koren Johnson (from Washington)
Aly Khalifa (from BYU)
Kasean Pryor (from South Florida)
Kobe Rodgers (from Charleston)
James Scott (from Charleston)
Reyne Smith (from Charleston)
Aboubacar Traoré (from Long Beach State)
Noah Waterman (from BYU)

Miami

8 OUT
AJ Casey (to St. Louis)
Nick Cassano
Bensley Joseph (to Providence)
Michael Nwoko (to Mississippi State)
Norchad Omier (to Baylor)
Wooga Poplar (to Villanova)
Jakai Robinson (to Bryant)
Christian Watson (to Southern Miss)

6 IN
Yussif Basa-Ama (from Yale)
Jalen Blackmon (from Stetson)
Kiree Huie (from Idaho State)
Brandon Johnson (from East Carolina)
Lynn Kidd (from Virginia Tech)
AJ Staton-McCray (from Samford)

NC State

4 OUT
Alex Nunnally (to NAIA Texas A&M-San Antonio)
Ernest Ross
LJ Thomas (to Austin Peay)
Kam Woods (to Robert Morris)

5 IN
Ismael Diouf (from Université Laval, Canada)
Marcus Hill (from Bowling Green)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (from Louisville)
Mike James (from Louisville)
Dontrez Styles (from Georgetown)

North Carolina

2 OUT
James Okonkwo (to Akron)
Seth Trimble (withdrawn, back to UNC)

3 IN
Elijah Davis (from Division III Lynchburg)
Ven-Allen Lubin (from Vanderbilt)
Cade Tyson (from Belmont)

Notre Dame

4 OUT
Carey Booth (to Illinois)
Raheem Braiton
Alex Wade
Matt Zona (to Fordham)

3 IN
Matt Allocco (from Princeton)
Burke Chebuhar (from Lehigh)
Nikita Konstantynovskyi (from Monmouth)

Pittsburgh

2 OUT
Federiko Federiko (to Texas Tech)
William Jeffress (to Louisiana Tech)

2 IN
Cameron Corhen (from Florida State)
Damian Dunn (from Houston)

SMU

9 OUT
Denver Anglin (to Rice)
Xavier Foster (to Radford)
Ja'Heim Hudson (to Auburn)
Jefferson Koulibaly (to Pacific)
Mo Njie
Zhuric Phelps (to Texas A&M)
Jalen Smith (to Rice)
Tyreek Smith (to Memphis)
Ricardo Wright (to Kennesaw State)

7 IN
Jerrell Colbert (from Kansas State)
Matt Cross (from Massachusetts)
AJ George (from Long Beach State)
Tibet Gorener (from San Jose State)
Kevin Miller (from Wake Forest)
Kario Oquendo (from Oregon)
Yohan Traore (from UCSB)

Stanford

5 OUT
Brandon Angel (to Oregon)
Kanaan Carlyle (to Indiana)
Max Murrell (to UC Santa Barbara)
Maxime Reynaud (withdrawn, back to Stanford)
Andrej Stojaković (to California)

5 IN
Jaylen Blakes (from Duke)
Cole Kastner (from Virginia LAX)
Chisom Okpara (from Harvard)
Derin Saran (from UC Irvine)
Oziyah Sellers (from USC)

Syracuse

6 OUT
Maliq Brown (to Duke)
Peter Carey (to Siena)
Quadir Copeland (to McNeese)
Mounir Hima (to Howard)
William Patterson (to High Point)
Justin Taylor (to James Madison)

4 IN
Jaquan Carlos (from Hofstra)
Jyáre Davis (from Delaware)
Eddie Lampkin Jr (from Colorado)
Lucas Taylor (from Georgia State)

Virginia

4 OUT
Leon Bond III (to Northern Iowa)
Dante Harris (withdrawn; back to Virginia as a walk-on)
Tristan How (to NYU)
Desmond Roberts (withdrawn; back to Virginia as a walk-on)

5 IN
Darrin Ames (from Kansas State)
Carter Lang (from Vanderbilt)
TJ Power (from Duke)
Elijah Saunders (from San Diego State)
Jalen Warley (from Florida State)

Virginia Tech

7 OUT
John Camden (to Delaware)
MJ Collins (to Vanderbilt)
Lynn Kidd (to Miami)
Tyler Nickel (to Vanderbilt)
Sean Pedulla (to Ole Miss)
Mylyjael Poteat (withdrawn, back to Virginia Tech)
Rodney Rice (to Maryland)

5 IN
Rodney Brown Jr (from California)
Ben Burnham (from Charleston)
Toibu Lawal (from VCU)
Hysier Miller (from Temple)
Jaden Schutt (from Duke)

Wake Forest

8 OUT
Abramo Canka (to Stetson)
Andrew Carr (to Kentucky)
Aaron Clark (to Pepperdine)
Jao Ituka (to Jacksonville State)
Zach Keller (to Utah)
Matthew Marsh (to Oregon State)
Kevin Miller (to SMU)
Damari Monsanto (to UTSA)

5 IN
Churchill Abass (from DePaul)
Omaha Biliew (from Iowa State)
Davin Cosby Jr (from Alabama)
Ty-Laur Johnson (from Louisville)
Tre'Von Spillers (from Appalachian State)

 

[Darts]

This is a a few weeks old but I have not seen it posted here (sorry if I missed it and this is redundant). Purdue's Matt Painter talked about Gillis leaving, saying he thought it was a "great decision" to make money in the portal as he would be a G-League or Euro player if he went pro. He told him he would hold a scholarship if he wanted it, but let him knwo so he could use it otherwise.

The relevant part starts at 13:26:

Purdue's Matt Painter on Kanon Catchings' exit: 'I can't anoint a role to somebody out of thin air.'

"It's just one of those deals where he was concerned about his role," Matt Painter said of Kanon Catchings' departure for BYU.

www.indystar.com

 

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brevity said:
I guess I can start making this a weekly post. Call it Transfer Tuesday.

It's July 9 and I started writing this on my phone, so it's more of a cut-and-paste operation.

Hercy Miller, the son of rapper/mogul Master P and a budding businessman in his own right, was making 7-figure deals when NIL first started. He was a freshman at Tennessee State and spent the last two seasons at Louisville. Now he's transferring to Southern Utah in the WAC to finish his college career. If his marketability is indeed global, we'll see if the money follows him to Cedar City.

That leaves eight ACC+3 players with an unknown destination:

Raheem Braiton, Notre Dame
Nick Cassano, Miami
Tyzhaun Claude, Georgia Tech
Gus Larson, California
Mo Njie, SMU
Wrenn Robinson, California
Ernest Ross, NC State
Alex Wade, Notre Dame

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Boston College

6 OUT
Prince Aligbe (to Seton Hall)
Claudell Harris Jr (to Mississippi State)
Mason Madsen (to Utah)
Devin McGlockton (to Vanderbilt)
Armani Mighty (to Central Michigan)
Jaeden Zackery (to Clemson)

4 IN
Joshua Beadle (from Clemson)
Dion Brown (from UMBC)
Roger McFarlane (from SE Louisiana)
Chad Venning (from St. Bonaventure)

California

8 OUT
Devin Askew (to Long Beach State)
Monty Bowser (to Northern Arizona)
Rodney Brown Jr (to Virginia Tech)
Jalen Celestine (to Baylor)
Gus Larson
Grant Newell (to North Texas)
ND Okafor (to Washington State)
Wrenn Robinson

10 IN
Jovan Blacksher Jr (from Grand Canyon)
DJ Campbell (from Western Carolina)
Lee Dort (from Vanderbilt)
Spencer Mahoney (from Washington State)
Joshua Ola-Joseph (from Minnesota)
BJ Omot (from North Dakota)
Rytis Petraitis (from Air Force)
Mady Sissoko (from Michigan State)
Andrej Stojaković (from Stanford)
Christian Tucker (from UTSA)

Clemson

4 OUT
Joshua Beadle (to Boston College)
Jack Clark (to VCU)
RJ Godfrey (to Georgia)
Alex Hemenway (to Vanderbilt)

4 IN
Myles Foster (from Illinois State)
Viktor Lakhin (from Cincinnati)
Christian Reeves (from Duke)
Jaeden Zackery (from Boston College)

Duke

7 OUT
Jaylen Blakes (to Stanford)
Mark Mitchell Jr (to Missouri)
TJ Power (to Virginia)
Christian Reeves (to Clemson)
Jeremy Roach (to Baylor)
Jaden Schutt (to Virginia Tech)
Sean Stewart (to Ohio State)

4 IN
Maliq Brown (from Syracuse)
Mason Gillis (from Purdue)
Sion James (from Tulane)
Cameron Sheffield (from Rice)

Florida State

10 OUT
Sola Adebisi (to The Citadel)
Cameron Corhen (to Pittsburgh)
Cam'Ron Fletcher (to Xavier)
De'Ante Green (to South Florida)
Tom House (to Furman)
Waka Mbatch (withdrawn, back to Florida State)
Baba Miller (to Florida Atlantic)
Amir Spears (to UTSA)
Jalen Warley (to Virginia)
Jamir Watkins (withdrawn, back to Florida State)

4 IN
Jerry Deng (from Hampton)
Malique Ewin (from JUCO/South Plains)
Bostyn Holt (from South Dakota)
Justin Thomas (from UTSA)

Georgia Tech

7 OUT
Amaree Abram (to Louisiana Tech)
Tyzhaun Claude
Dallan Coleman (to UCF)
Ebenezer Dowuona (to James Madison)
Tafara Gapare (to Maryland)
Miles Kelly (to Auburn)
Ibrahima Sacko (to New Mexico)

4 IN
Javian McCollum (from Oklahoma)
Ryan Mutombo (from Georgetown)
Luke O'Brien (from Colorado)
Duncan Powell (from Sacramento State)

Louisville

13 OUT
Skyy Clark (to UCLA)
Koron Davis (to Louisiana)
Dennis Evans (to Grand Canyon)
Kaleb Glenn (to Florida Atlantic)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (to NC State)
Mike James (to NC State)
Ty-Laur Johnson (to Wake Forest)
Danilo Jovanovich (to Milwaukee)
Hercy Miller (to Southern Utah)
Emmanuel Okorafor (to Seton Hall)
JJ Traynor (to DePaul)
Tre White (to Illinois)
Curtis Williams (to Georgetown)

12 IN
Frank Anselem-Ibe (from Georgia)
Terrence Edwards Jr (from James Madison)
J'Vonne Hadley (from Colorado)
Chucky Hepburn (from Wisconsin)
Koren Johnson (from Washington)
Aly Khalifa (from BYU)
Kasean Pryor (from South Florida)
Kobe Rodgers (from Charleston)
James Scott (from Charleston)
Reyne Smith (from Charleston)
Aboubacar Traoré (from Long Beach State)
Noah Waterman (from BYU)

Miami

8 OUT
AJ Casey (to St. Louis)
Nick Cassano
Bensley Joseph (to Providence)
Michael Nwoko (to Mississippi State)
Norchad Omier (to Baylor)
Wooga Poplar (to Villanova)
Jakai Robinson (to Bryant)
Christian Watson (to Southern Miss)

6 IN
Yussif Basa-Ama (from Yale)
Jalen Blackmon (from Stetson)
Kiree Huie (from Idaho State)
Brandon Johnson (from East Carolina)
Lynn Kidd (from Virginia Tech)
AJ Staton-McCray (from Samford)

NC State

4 OUT
Alex Nunnally (to NAIA Texas A&M-San Antonio)
Ernest Ross
LJ Thomas (to Austin Peay)
Kam Woods (to Robert Morris)

5 IN
Ismael Diouf (from Université Laval, Canada)
Marcus Hill (from Bowling Green)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (from Louisville)
Mike James (from Louisville)
Dontrez Styles (from Georgetown)

North Carolina

2 OUT
James Okonkwo (to Akron)
Seth Trimble (withdrawn, back to UNC)

3 IN
Elijah Davis (from Division III Lynchburg)
Ven-Allen Lubin (from Vanderbilt)
Cade Tyson (from Belmont)

Notre Dame

4 OUT
Carey Booth (to Illinois)
Raheem Braiton
Alex Wade
Matt Zona (to Fordham)

3 IN
Matt Allocco (from Princeton)
Burke Chebuhar (from Lehigh)
Nikita Konstantynovskyi (from Monmouth)

Pittsburgh

2 OUT
Federiko Federiko (to Texas Tech)
William Jeffress (to Louisiana Tech)

2 IN
Cameron Corhen (from Florida State)
Damian Dunn (from Houston)

SMU

9 OUT
Denver Anglin (to Rice)
Xavier Foster (to Radford)
Ja'Heim Hudson (to Auburn)
Jefferson Koulibaly (to Pacific)
Mo Njie
Zhuric Phelps (to Texas A&M)
Jalen Smith (to Rice)
Tyreek Smith (to Memphis)
Ricardo Wright (to Kennesaw State)

7 IN
Jerrell Colbert (from Kansas State)
Matt Cross (from Massachusetts)
AJ George (from Long Beach State)
Tibet Gorener (from San Jose State)
Kevin Miller (from Wake Forest)
Kario Oquendo (from Oregon)
Yohan Traore (from UCSB)

Stanford

5 OUT
Brandon Angel (to Oregon)
Kanaan Carlyle (to Indiana)
Max Murrell (to UC Santa Barbara)
Maxime Reynaud (withdrawn, back to Stanford)
Andrej Stojaković (to California)

5 IN
Jaylen Blakes (from Duke)
Cole Kastner (from Virginia LAX)
Chisom Okpara (from Harvard)
Derin Saran (from UC Irvine)
Oziyah Sellers (from USC)

Syracuse

6 OUT
Maliq Brown (to Duke)
Peter Carey (to Siena)
Quadir Copeland (to McNeese)
Mounir Hima (to Howard)
William Patterson (to High Point)
Justin Taylor (to James Madison)

4 IN
Jaquan Carlos (from Hofstra)
Jyáre Davis (from Delaware)
Eddie Lampkin Jr (from Colorado)
Lucas Taylor (from Georgia State)

Virginia

4 OUT
Leon Bond III (to Northern Iowa)
Dante Harris (withdrawn; back to Virginia as a walk-on)
Tristan How (to NYU)
Desmond Roberts (withdrawn; back to Virginia as a walk-on)

5 IN
Darrin Ames (from Kansas State)
Carter Lang (from Vanderbilt)
TJ Power (from Duke)
Elijah Saunders (from San Diego State)
Jalen Warley (from Florida State)

Virginia Tech

7 OUT
John Camden (to Delaware)
MJ Collins (to Vanderbilt)
Lynn Kidd (to Miami)
Tyler Nickel (to Vanderbilt)
Sean Pedulla (to Ole Miss)
Mylyjael Poteat (withdrawn, back to Virginia Tech)
Rodney Rice (to Maryland)

5 IN
Rodney Brown Jr (from California)
Ben Burnham (from Charleston)
Toibu Lawal (from VCU)
Hysier Miller (from Temple)
Jaden Schutt (from Duke)

Wake Forest

8 OUT
Abramo Canka (to Stetson)
Andrew Carr (to Kentucky)
Aaron Clark (to Pepperdine)
Jao Ituka (to Jacksonville State)
Zach Keller (to Utah)
Matthew Marsh (to Oregon State)
Kevin Miller (to SMU)
Damari Monsanto (to UTSA)

5 IN
Churchill Abass (from DePaul)
Omaha Biliew (from Iowa State)
Davin Cosby Jr (from Alabama)
Ty-Laur Johnson (from Louisville)
Tre'Von Spillers (from Appalachian State)

 

[JasonEvans]

That leaves eight ACC+3 players with an unknown destination:

Raheem Braiton, Notre Dame
Nick Cassano, Miami
Tyzhaun Claude, Georgia Tech
Gus Larson, California
Mo Njie, SMU
Wrenn Robinson, California
Ernest Ross, NC State
Alex Wade, Notre Dame

I spend time each season studying ACC rosters as part of my effort to preview teams on various episodes of the podcast. I don't think I have ever heard of any of the names on this list. I think there is at least a 30% chance Brevity is just making up names to keep us interested in his posts.

 

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I spend time each season studying ACC rosters as part of my effort to preview teams on various episodes of the podcast. I don't think I have ever heard of any of the names on this list. I think there is at least a 30% chance Brevity is just making up names to keep us interested in his posts.

Just 30 percent?

For the record, those names are real, but after someone on the Syracusefan.com board lifted my list verbatim and passed it off as their own, I did briefly consider throwing in a fake name, the 2024 equivalent of Ivan Renko:

https://www.basketballnetwork.net/college/when-bob-knight-created-a-fictitious-prospect-from-yugoslavia-as-hoax

Two things about Tyzhaun Claude. First, I found out about the Syracuse board after searching the web for recent pages containing his name. Second, if I did make up his name, it would have been one heck of a long con, as I mentioned him in passing a couple of times last season.