The 2024 Transfer Portal

I mean, it doesn't scare me but they are better with him than not... 5 fouls.. 15 points a game at Western Carolina and an older senior guy who had some good games (vs UNC for one). Say Lubin turns out to be good - well, this is another guy to spell him with Tyson. Though I woulda thought he would get more PT at GT. Maybe there was some money
 
** Also, whomever changed my name back to GOFURMAN - Thank you !! somehow (I am sure it is in the FAQ) it was switched to JDuke in the transition...


GO DUKE, GO FURMAN - FU ALL THE TIME !
 
tommy said:
Claude to UNC. Yawn.
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So Hubert Davis CAN get something done in the transfer portal if properly motivated. Obligatory:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1823804890717807059

It appeared as though UNC was running unopposed here, but I was secretly hoping they'd still find a way to lose. I'll update the big ACC list next Tuesday, but here is a small portion:

North Carolina

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Seth Trimble (withdrawn, back to UNC)

4 IN
Tyzhaun Claude (from Georgia Tech)
Elijah Davis (from Division III Lynchburg)
Ven-Allen Lubin (from Vanderbilt)
Cade Tyson (from Belmont)

This was not an impressive offseason for the hallowed Heels. I'm going to rank their accomplishments:

1. Reeling in Cade Tyson, a sharpshooter genuinely in demand
2. Getting Seth Trimble to return
3. Asking Jerry Stackhouse to convince Ven-Allen Lubin to transfer more than a month after Mark Byington took the Vandy job
4. Signing recently cleared Tyzhaun Claude without any competition
5. Promising Hubert's kid Elijah Davis a bigger weekly allowance if he walks on
6. Driving away James Okonkwo, similar in size to Claude but more than 3 years younger

I was ranking actual transactions, but I suppose the real #1 is "Striking out on every center they contacted". There's still time, though; if they filled their last scholarship with Harvard's 6-11 center Matt Filipowski -- still available, as far as I know -- I would laugh so hard. You'd have to reluctantly respect that level of trolling, toward both Duke fans and their own.
 
brevity said:
So Hubert Davis CAN get something done in the transfer portal if properly motivated. Obligatory:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1823804890717807059

It appeared as though UNC was running unopposed here, but I was secretly hoping they'd still find a way to lose. I'll update the big ACC list next Tuesday, but here is a small portion:

North Carolina

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

4 IN
Tyzhaun Claude (from Georgia Tech)
Elijah Davis (from Division III Lynchburg)
Ven-Allen Lubin (from Vanderbilt)
Cade Tyson (from Belmont)

This was not an impressive offseason for the hallowed Heels. I'm going to rank their accomplishments:

1. Reeling in Cade Tyson, a sharpshooter genuinely in demand
2. Getting Seth Trimble to return
3. Asking Jerry Stackhouse to convince Ven-Allen Lubin to transfer more than a month after Mark Byington took the Vandy job
4. Signing recently cleared Tyzhaun Claude without any competition
5. Promising Hubert's kid Elijah Davis a bigger weekly allowance if he walks on
6. Driving away James Okonkwo, similar in size to Claude but more than 3 years younger

I was ranking actual transactions, but I suppose the real #1 is "Striking out on every center they contacted". There's still time, though; if they filled their last scholarship with Harvard's 6-11 center Matt Filipowski -- still available, as far as I know -- I would laugh so hard. You'd have to reluctantly respect that level of trolling, toward both Duke fans and their own.
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I just checked Matt Flip's LinkedIn page. He lists himself as a junior at Harvard so that leads me to believe he is going back (he would be a junior this fall). Crazier things have happened but I guess he was just testing the waters. He is an electrical engineering major so clearly bright. It would take a heck of an NIL package to make me leave Harvard and not get that degree after having already spent two years working on it - and from what I understand, his basketball skills don't really merit a big NIL pacakge.
 
CrazyNotCrazie said:
I just checked Matt Flip's LinkedIn page. He lists himself as a junior at Harvard so that leads me to believe he is going back (he would be a junior this fall). Crazier things have happened but I guess he was just testing the waters. He is an electrical engineering major so clearly bright. It would take a heck of an NIL package to make me leave Harvard and not get that degree after having already spent two years working on it - and from what I understand, his basketball skills don't really merit a big NIL pacakge.
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Thanks, that's good to know. He's not listed among the 16 players on Harvard's 2024-2025 roster, so he may have stepped away from basketball.

I don't like helping UNC by naming any possible centers, even this late in the summer, but Matt Filipowski was such an unlikely choice that it was worth the risk.
 
brevity said:
Thanks, that's good to know. He's not listed among the 16 players on Harvard's 2024-2025 roster, so he may have stepped away from basketball.

I don't like helping UNC by naming any possible centers, even this late in the summer, but Matt Filipowski was such an unlikely choice that it was worth the risk.
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It wouldn't surprise me if he stopped playing - I don't think he was playing much and Ivies don't give scholarships so he isn't giving up anything by quitting. I went to a Harvard-Columbia game his freshman year hoping to see him play (that was not my primary reason for going) but I think he was in street clothes.
 
brevity said:
This was not an impressive offseason for the hallowed Heels. I'm going to rank their accomplishments:
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To be fair, they also got RJ Davis, Elliot Cad'oh, Jalen Washington, and Jaelyn Withers to return along with Trimble who you mentioned. When evaluating off-season roster construction nowadays, retaining your current non-drafted players cannot be taken for granted.
 
UrinalCake said:
To be fair, they also got RJ Davis, Elliot Cad'oh, Jalen Washington, and Jaelyn Withers to return along with Trimble who you mentioned. When evaluating off-season roster construction nowadays, retaining your current non-drafted players cannot be taken for granted.
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Fair. Seth Trimble actually entered the portal, but if we are ranking all transactions of the UNC offseason, paying RJ Davis whatever they're paying him in fake NIL money probably does top the list. (Even if it allegedly closed off options for them in the rapidly inflating A-list center market.)

2024-2025 is the first true season of Scheyerball, because it's the first roster of his own creation. Meanwhile, Hubert Davis has one more year of head coaching experience, but we still don't know exactly how he wants to construct a roster because he inherited Armando Bacot and RJ Davis, and they have been there for so long.
 
brevity said:
I guess I can start making this a weekly post. Call it Transfer Tuesday.
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Today is August 20. The big news since last Tuesday was the commitment of Georgia Tech's Tyzhaun Claude to UNC for his NCAA-cleared final season.

This leaves five ACC+3 players without a resolution, much like an indecisive person on New Year's Day:

Raheem Braiton, Notre Dame
Nick Cassano, Miami
Wrenn Robinson, California
Ernest Ross, NC State
Alex Wade, Notre Dame

brevity said:
Based on his team bio, Alex Wade may have walked on to Notre Dame as a sophomore and then earned a scholarship last season as a junior. He must have graduated in 3 years, because Verbal Commits identified him as a grad transfer. He might be done with college now, despite 2 seasons of eligibility.
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I came across this Instagram post from the Notre Dame's alumni club of San Diego.


That doesn't really tell me anything, but it suggests that Alex Wade might be in former student mode. Thanks for the information, and stay classy, San Diego.
 
The updated ACC transfer list:

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 (withdrawn, back to California as a walk-on)
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 (to North Carolina)
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)

4 IN
Tyzhaun Claude (from Georgia Tech)
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 (to UTSA)
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)
 
Earlier today Virginia Tech officially announced the addition of transfer Connor Serven, a 6-8 forward, to complete their 2024-2025 roster. He played for Eastern Michigan last season, after three prior seasons at Illinois. The announcement says that he has two years of eligibility remaining, unless he has an NCAA waiver for a prior season, this coming season is his last.

This news was so under the wire that Verbal Commits hasn't reported it, nor has On3 or 247 Sports. But when it comes to breaking news involving the Hokies, you can always count on The Virginia Tech Show to say... something.


A YouTube account named "Connor Serven" posted some EMU highlights from last season here.

 
He's not technically a transfer since as far as I can tell he never entered the portal, but nonetheless you can add another OUT to Carolina's list.

Bye, High.

North Carolina men's basketball player Zayden High is no longer enrolled at the school, the program announced Tuesday evening.

High, a 6-foot-9 forward from San Antonio, played in 23 games for the Tar Heels as a freshman in 2023-24. He scored 18 points and had 26 rebounds in 103 minutes played.
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www.wralsportsfan.com

UNC sophomore men's basketball player no longer with program :: WRALSportsFan.com

Forward Zayden High, who played sparingly for the Tar Heels as a freshman, is no longer enrolled at UNC.
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CameronBornAndBred said:
He's not technically a transfer since as far as I can tell he never entered the portal, but nonetheless you can add another OUT to Carolina's list.

Bye, High.
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Yeah, the Zayden High news prompted me to start a 2024-2025 General MBB Preseason Discussion thread yesterday, and there are a few replies.

I missed my weekly post for Transfer Tuesday, and while I could interpret that as further evidence of a cognitive decline, I choose instead to say that it's a sign that the ACC is done with the portal, and that the 5 unresolved players are probably not returning to college basketball. The fall semester has already started for many if not all of these schools -- this is Week 1 of the football season, after all -- so students should have either enrolled at their new schools by now, or re-enrolled at their old ones. If some late news pops up, I'll provide an update.
 
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