NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

On 4/15/2026 at 9:45 AM, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Another former IU offer

St. John’s guard Joson Sanon, is entering the transfer portal.  Sanon averaged 7.9 points and 2.4 rebounds this season.

Sanon to West Virginia.

[RaceToTheTop]

Juke Harris picks Tennessee over Michigan and UNC.  Matt Norlander reports that Harris' asking price was $5 million.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Duke, Louisville, Tennessee, Florida just keep stacking talent on talent.   Gonna be another great season to track trends. 

[RaceToTheTop]

14 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Duke, Louisville, Tennessee, Florida just keep stacking talent on talent.   Gonna be another great season to track trends. 

FWIW, Tennessee is currently ranked 22nd on Torvik and when you add Juke Harris in they move five spots to 17.  On3 ranks team's transfer portal by looking what they brought in by the portal against what they had go out in the portal.  They are a net positive when comparing what they brought in to what they lost, but it's not that big of a margin difference -- overall, they were rated 24th in net gain (IU was ranked 3rd).  Overall, On3 and Torvik don't see much difference between Tennessee's roster last year to this year.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Sean Miller just said, educated guess, 7-8 SEC schools topping 20 million.  And 20-25 schools overall.  

[HoosierHoopster]

Portal needs rules and a cap

[Pagoda]

20-25 schools over $20M?  I’m not buying that Sean.  Bit of exaggeration there imo.

Maybe 10 are $20M+.

That said, #10-20 still have a lot of money.

IU needs to start developing and retaining players to help offset the increase in player costs.

[RaceToTheTop]

54 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Sean Miller just said, educated guess, 7-8 SEC schools topping 20 million.  And 20-25 schools overall.  

One of those is probably LSU.  Apparently it takes more than 20 million to field a team that wants to play for Will Wade.

Rumor is that LSU is going to be relying at picking up a lot of Euro players because they have no choice.

[Pagoda]

4 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

One of those is probably LSU.  Apparently it takes more than 20 million to field a team that wants to play for Will Wade.

Rumor is that LSU is going to be relying at picking up a lot of Euro players because they have no choice.

Chatter was he got $15M for his roster.  I almost don’t believe the number given how few players he has.  Insane!

[str8baller]

11 hours ago, Pagoda said:

20-25 schools over $20M?  I’m not buying that Sean.  Bit of exaggeration there imo.

Maybe 10 are $20M+.

That said, #10-20 still have a lot of money.

IU needs to start developing and retaining players to help offset the increase in player costs.

Agree. It’s in a coach’s best interests downplay how much they have to spend and overestimate how much his competitors have. 

[Demo]

On 4/29/2026 at 1:24 PM, Demo said:

https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-wildcats/news/kentucky-mark-pope-meeting-marcio-santos/
 

Pretty gross if true. The “kid” will turn 24 before the season starts and Maccabi Tel Aviv is an elite program not some Latvian 4th division backwater. 

UK missed again. Santos going to LSU. In fairness, Wade being able to promise him 80 mins a night and literally every single shot is pretty tough to say no to. 

[jermhoosierfan]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

UK missed again. Santos going to LSU. In fairness, Wade being able to promise him 80 mins a night and literally every single shot is pretty tough to say no to. 

What is that, 2 players now for LSU?

[Stuhoo]

 

This is fantastic. Kentucky legend Dan Issel gets extremely truthy about Kentucky's recruiting struggles:

 

 

[Artie86]

On 5/4/2026 at 8:11 PM, HoosierHoopster said:

Portal needs rules and a cap

Yep, I'm sure that's coming sometime in the near future. There has to be a stopping point somewhere. Can you imagine if the NBA or NFL didn't have a cap. All small market teams wouldn't survive.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

10 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

Yep, I'm sure that's coming sometime in the near future. There has to be a stopping point somewhere. Can you imagine if the NBA or NFL didn't have a cap. All small market teams wouldn't survive.

The biggest spenders left hand want a cap, right hand don’t want a cap.  The top end spenders will find a way to pay over the cap like the old days to get recruting advantages again.  It should eventually balance itself out from ROI.  I think this season is very near the cap.  Payments have doubled then doubled again in the past 2 off seasons.  They won’t double again.  They, in my estimation will hold steady where we are at.  Seems like 20 Million is top with about 8-12 teams there. 15 is the next bench mark with about 10 teams there. Then 10 with another 10-15 there.  About 30-35 teams spending big bucks.  Big question is will certain programs find ways to join party in those ranges?  

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1 hour ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

The biggest spenders left hand want a cap, right hand don’t want a cap.  The top end spenders will find a way to pay over the cap like the old days to get recruting advantages again.  It should eventually balance itself out from ROI.  I think this season is very near the cap.  Payments have doubled then doubled again in the past 2 off seasons.  They won’t double again.  They, in my estimation will hold steady where we are at.  Seems like 20 Million is top with about 8-12 teams there. 15 is the next bench mark with about 10 teams there. Then 10 with another 10-15 there.  About 30-35 teams spending big bucks.  Big question is will certain programs find ways to join party in those ranges?  

You're absolutey right, it will give the cheaters the ability to cheat again.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

 

This is fantastic. Kentucky legend Dan Issel gets extremely truthy about Kentucky's recruiting struggles:

 

 

This in largest part has been what’s so infuriating as a CBB for the past 35 years.  Indiana, short of finding another legendary coach or a Painter like Coach was never going to be on level ground. And when we decided that we wouldn’t cheat big enough we still tried getting NBA guys that weren’t as good, and still left early.   We either needed to “cheat” which is what I thought we should be doing to whatever level Kansas,Duke,Kentucky were doing or embrace the college model and never reach the top echelon of success.  We messed everything up for years. Damaged the brand by not winning. And of course don’t get any credit by trying to follow the rules. Infuriating dynamic.  So in my estimation we need a gross overspend to jumpstart the rebuild of culture/winning. Fans in my opinion deserve it so much from the years of inept decision making that virtually tanked the program. And the fans continue to keep it afloat. 
 

Lets. Go. Win!

Edited May 6 by WayneFleekHoosier

[Brass Cannon]

19 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

This in largest part has been what’s so infuriating as a CBB for the past 35 years.  Indiana, short of finding another legendary coach or a Painter like Coach was never going to be on level ground. And when we decided that we wouldn’t cheat big enough we still tried getting NBA guys that weren’t as good, and still left early.   We either needed to “cheat” which is what I thought we should be doing to whatever level Kansas,Duke,Kentucky were doing or embrace the college model and never reach the top echelon of success.  We messed everything up for years. Damaged the brand by not winning. And of course don’t get any credit by trying to follow the rules. Infuriating dynamic.  So in my estimation we need a gross overspend to jumpstart the rebuild of culture/winning. Fans in my opinion deserve it so much from the years of inept decision making that virtually tanked the program. And the fans continue to keep it afloat. 
 

Lets. Go. Win!

Yet people in the fanbase try to treat Sampson like the anti-Christ because of too many phones calls.  All the while the SEC is buying houses for their players and UNC is giving degrees to kids who couldn’t read anything besides a playbook 

[Demo]

4 hours ago, jermhoosierfan said:

What is that, 2 players now for LSU?

So far. Wade said something about wanting to go hard internationally, but he’s so late that it’s gonna be tough this year.

My heart is bleeding for him.

[RaceToTheTop]

32 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Yet people in the fanbase try to treat Sampson like the anti-Christ because of too many phones calls.  All the while the SEC is buying houses for their players and UNC is giving degrees to kids who couldn’t read anything besides a playbook 

The NCAA already had Sampson in their sights before he came to IU.