NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

[IUc2016 7,121]

3 hours ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Minnesota guard Elijah Hawkins enters the portal.  Pass first point guard, led the big ten assists with 7.5 per game.  Averaged 9.5 points on 39/36/78 shooting.  Previously played two years at Howard.

Washington guard Koren Johnson commits to Louisville.  IU had contacted earlier and he had IU in his final five despite it never really getting beyond the contact stage.

Brandon Murray enters the portal and will be playing for his fourth team in four years.  Previous stops of LSU and Georgetown before playing at Ole Miss this year.  Injury riddled and poor year last year at Ole Miss.  Best season averaged 13.7 points at GTown.

Zhuric Phelps of SMU enters.  6'5" guard, 14.8 points, 4.1 reb, 2.7 assists.  Averaged over 17 points the year before.  One of the worst volume three point shooters in D1;  made 30 of 139 attempts (22%) last year and in his career has made 86 of 330 from deep (26%).

I thought Minnesota had a chance to be pretty good next year but losing Hawkins hurts, He was pretty good, when he wasn’t playing IU.

Already lost Payne and Christie (most likely)

[IUFAN1976 3,355]

It’s official, Mason Gillis has committed to Duke!

[IUc2016 7,121]

10 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

It’s official, Mason Gillis has committed to Duke!

Congrats to the fake tough guy committing to the fake tough guy school.

[lillurk 3,763]

Not sure the best place to put this, but can Dusty May’s first offseason at UM PLEASE put to rest the worst criticism of low- and mid-major candidates for big jobs: “how will he do at big boy recruiting?”

Don’t mean to burst any bubbles or say there’s no specific ability involved. But of course a guy who put FAU on the map and only spent one season there after their big breakthrough didn’t have Mark Few’s recruiting track record.

If you have any juice at all at a top ~50 program, you’ll get your share of guys.

Is it an open question whether he’s more Crean, Archie, Jay Wright, Juwan Howard, or Matt Painter on the trail? Of course. But let’s not pretend that hiring a May-type means you have to settle for unknowns, lowly ranked, transfers only, or punt on the current class.

[Henryville Hoosier 973]

 

[monskisprodigy 1,953]

48 minutes ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

 

Don't know much about this kid.

His numbers last year don't scream "starting center". Avg. 3.6 pts, 4.8 rebounds and 2.8 blocks in 19 minutes a game.

Wonder if we will reach out. 

[Stuhoo 81,478]

50 minutes ago, monskisprodigy said:

Don't know much about this kid.

His numbers last year don't scream "starting center". Avg. 3.6 pts, 4.8 rebounds and 2.8 blocks in 19 minutes a game.

Wonder if we will reach out. 

Watched him more than a little bit.

Fantastic rim protector; bad at pretty much everything else. Two years left. Something makes me think he's not an IU type; he'll have lots of big-time programs interested, but would love to see him at IU as Ballo's backup. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,544]

26 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Watched him more than a little bit.

Fantastic rim protector; bad at pretty much everything else. Two years left. Something makes me think he's not an IU type; he'll have lots of big-time programs interested, but would love to see him at IU as Ballo's backup. 

Yeah, he'll be looking for a bigger role.  I'm genuinely curious where we go for the backup 5.  It's the next big spot to fill and maybe the last.  

[Stuhoo 81,478]

19 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Yeah, he'll be looking for a bigger role.  I'm genuinely curious where we go for the backup 5.  It's the next big spot to fill and maybe the last.  

We need to find a 6'10" version of Luke Goode. A Ryan Young type.

Caleb Furst is not in the portal, but if he went in I would infer that IU is the reason why. And he'd be a grad transfer so it doesn't have to be by May 1st.

[SamIam 646]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

We need to find a 6'10" version of Luke Goode. A Ryan Young type.

Caleb Furst is not in the portal, but if he went in I would infer that IU is the reason why. And he'd be a grad transfer so it doesn't have to be by May 1st.

I know he's pre-med so that brings up an interesting point: does the med school even admit athletics transfers? I can't imagine trying to do both. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,544]

13 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

We need to find a 6'10" version of Luke Goode. A Ryan Young type.

Caleb Furst is not in the portal, but if he went in I would infer that IU is the reason why. And he'd be a grad transfer so it doesn't have to be by May 1st.

I would really like that but man is that hard to see happening.  

[Uspshoosier 46,144]

13 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

We need to find a 6'10" version of Luke Goode. A Ryan Young type.

Caleb Furst is not in the portal, but if he went in I would infer that IU is the reason why. And he'd be a grad transfer so it doesn't have to be by May 1st.

From my Purdue buddies he is content where he is at and basketball really isn’t that important.  He wants to finish school with a degree and enter med school plus his brother is a walkon for Purdue 

[Stuhoo 81,478]

8 minutes ago, SamIam said:

I know he's pre-med so that brings up an interesting point: does the med school even admit athletics transfers? I can't imagine trying to do both. 

The stuff about Furst is pure speculation, but he'd be a perfect fit as Ballo's other half, and where there's a will there's a way. 

He certainly cannot start med school while on the basketball team. But say IU med school gives him a guaranteed deferred admission, effective fall of 2025. That would be pretty attractive to a med school applicant.

I'll also say this factual item; Purdud is still over-signed by one for the coming season, and four from their current roster are centers: Furst, Burgess, Jacobsen, and Berg. One could say Kaufman-Renn is also a post/5. If Waddell takes a walk-on demotion that leaves them with four or five of their thirteen that are posts/5 men, and that's too much.

Something's gotta give with that situation and I'm hoping that it's with Luke Goode's best friend. 

[mike vannice 281]

A couple of pages back Race to the Top mentioned guys like Moussa Cisse from Mississippi might be the type of big we would need to look at for the back up big role. Wondering if the staff has contacted him? He would be an excellent rim protector/rebounder to spell Ballo for short periods of time. 

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2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

The stuff about Furst is pure speculation, but he'd be a perfect fit as Ballo's other half, and where there's a will there's a way. 

He certainly cannot start med school while on the basketball team. But say IU med school gives him a guaranteed deferred admission, effective fall of 2025. That would be pretty attractive to a med school applicant.

I'll also say this factual item; Purdud is still over-signed by one for the coming season, and four from their current roster are centers: Furst, Burgess, Jacobsen, and Berg. One could say Kaufman-Renn is also a post/5. If Waddell takes a walk-on demotion that leaves them with four or five of their thirteen that are posts/5 men, and that's too much.

Something's gotta give with that situation and I'm hoping that it's with Luke Goode's best friend. 

From his basketball perspective I'm not sure I see the fit for him. Would assume the kid's last year he'd be looking for an expanded role and that doesn't look likely here. But if the kid sees the value going forward he's probably an easy take. The kid I've talked myself into for that role, and this is evidence-free wish casting, is Baye Fall from Arkansas. MCDAA in '23 who got nicked up in the preseason and then barely played. I mean, at all. Not sure what happened there. But he's 6'11", though thin, and a great athlete. A back of the rotation/niche role would be an increase in minutes. And selling a kid like him along the lines of, "Hey, you'll be backing up the 3rd NBA center we've produced in 3 years" and pitching the physical and development piece with the probability of taking on a spotlight role in '25 feels to me like potentially a big win/win. I really like the idea of buying low, so to speak, on talent like that. If it doesn't work you move on. But if they're looking for a surer thing for that role I get it.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 85,181]

Couple of bigs entered today.  I know nothing at all about them but on the surface both sound like a backup role would be acceptable.

BYU big man Atiki Ally Atiki will enter the transfer portal, a source tells @247SportsPortal. 43 inch vertical and averaged 14pts 10rebs per 40 this year.

https://byucougars.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/season/2023-2024/player/atiki-ally-atiki

 

Washington senior Braxton Meah has officially entered the Transfer Portal @On3sports has learned The 7-1 center averaged 5.3 points and 5.3 rebounds this season/

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/braxton-meah-1.html

[RaceToTheTop 26,188]

39 minutes ago, Demo said:

From his basketball perspective I'm not sure I see the fit for him. Would assume the kid's last year he'd be looking for an expanded role and that doesn't look likely here. But if the kid sees the value going forward he's probably an easy take. The kid I've talked myself into for that role, and this is evidence-free wish casting, is Baye Fall from Arkansas. MCDAA in '23 who got nicked up in the preseason and then barely played. I mean, at all. Not sure what happened there. But he's 6'11", though thin, and a great athlete. A back of the rotation/niche role would be an increase in minutes. And selling a kid like him along the lines of, "Hey, you'll be backing up the 3rd NBA center we've produced in 3 years" and pitching the physical and development piece with the probability of taking on a spotlight role in '25 feels to me like potentially a big win/win. I really like the idea of buying low, so to speak, on talent like that. If it doesn't work you move on. But if they're looking for a surer thing for that role I get it.

In terms of Furst’s current role at Purdue:  he averaged 9 minutes per game last year and in the NCAA tournament registered 3 DNP-CD and played a total of 11 minutes in the NCAA tournament.  He’s obviously not in the portal right now but if it was all about looking for an expanded role he would have been the first guy in.  Kaufman-Renn’s minutes are going to skyrocket this year.  I would expect that Painter will be looking for a lot of minutes for Kaufman-Renn, Heide, and Catchings as well as getting minutes for his seven footers.

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7 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Couple of bigs entered today.  I know nothing at all about them but on the surface both sound like a backup role would be acceptable.

BYU big man Atiki Ally Atiki will enter the transfer portal, a source tells @247SportsPortal. 43 inch vertical and averaged 14pts 10rebs per 40 this year.

https://byucougars.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/season/2023-2024/player/atiki-ally-atiki

 

Washington senior Braxton Meah has officially entered the Transfer Portal @On3sports has learned The 7-1 center averaged 5.3 points and 5.3 rebounds this season/

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/braxton-meah-1.html

Guy I mentioned in the IU thread entered as well —Alabama’s Mohammed Wague.  3.1 pts and 2.5 reb in 8.5 minutes, 7’1”.

UCF’s Thierno Sylla as well — stretch big.  Didn’t shoot it that well this year but still has put up respectable three point numbers for a guy his size — 31% from three in his freshman and sophomore years.  4.3 pts and 3.9 reb in 14 mpg this year.

Yesterday Carlton Linguard of Texas-San Antoni entered.  Played two years at Kansas state but didn’t play much.  7’.  At UTSA this year averaged 9.3 points and 6.3 rebounds in 25 mpg.  Stretch 5, almost half his shots were threes. Shot 42/31/79 this year, making 38 of 124 from three.  1.5 blocks/game.

[Stuhoo 81,478]

19 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Guy I mentioned in the IU thread entered as well —Alabama’s Mohammed Wague.  3.1 pts and 2.5 reb in 8.5 minutes, 7’1”.

UCF’s Thierno Sylla as well — stretch big.  Didn’t shoot it that well this year but still has put up respectable three point numbers for a guy his size — 31% from three in his freshman and sophomore years.  4.3 pts and 3.9 reb in 14 mpg this year.

Yesterday Carlton Linguard of Texas-San Antoni entered.  Played two years at Kansas state but didn’t play much.  7’.  At UTSA this year averaged 9.3 points and 6.3 rebounds in 25 mpg.  Stretch 5, almost half his shots were threes. Shot 42/31/79 this year, making 38 of 124 from three.  1.5 blocks/game.

In other words, if Goode signs on, we’ve got one back up spot to fill and tons and tons of options that might fit.

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46 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

In other words, if Goode signs on, we’ve got one back up spot to fill and tons and tons of options that might fit.

There are definitely options, but there are 300+ division 1 teams filling spots.  So we're like everyone else in that respect -- however I think it was Trilly Donovan (or Ant Wright) that said the other day that the run on bigs signing was slowing down while guards were heating up.  So a lot of the the P5 teams have already filled their bigs.