NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

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Lance Ware (Kentucky) to Villanova.

Aziz Bandaoga (Utah Valley) to Cincinnati.  Good defender and rebounder.  Averaged 11.5 points, 10.4 rebounds, and 2.9 blocks at Utah Valley last season.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

1 minute ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Lance Ware (Kentucky) to Villanova.

Aziz Bandaoga (Utah Valley) to Cincinnati.  Good defender and rebounder.  Averaged 11.5 points, 10.4 rebounds, and 2.9 blocks at Utah Valley last season.

Cincy has done well I feel in the portal. Being able to recruit to play in the Big 12 possibly helping.

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Trilly Donovan seems to be implying that Ed Cooley has been involved with multiple players leaving other teams and entering the portal.  One player of note that entered the portal very shortly after the season ended and very quickly committed to Georgetown was Illinois' Jayden Epps.

[ap2345]

2 hours ago, Honkyman said:

I don't know why  he would go to Georgetown. Even with a new coach, they won't be any good next year. Why not go to a school where the team will win and the NIL money is good.

Georgetown is the school that was doing the tampering behind the scenes $$$$ and he’s an East Coast kid. There are schools that might beat out Georgetown though because he’s listening to all his options now that he’s in the portal.

[ap2345]

2 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Trilly Donovan seems to be implying that Ed Cooley has been involved with multiple players leaving other teams and entering the portal.  One player of note that entered the portal very shortly after the season ended and very quickly committed to Georgetown was Illinois' Jayden Epps.

He’s definitely been doing some tampering 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Rothstein reporting Jaylin Sellers to UCF.

[IUFAN1976]

2 hours ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Trilly Donovan seems to be implying that Ed Cooley has been involved with multiple players leaving other teams and entering the portal.  One player of note that entered the portal very shortly after the season ended and very quickly committed to Georgetown was Illinois' Jayden Epps.

That doesn’t surprise me, he seems sort of shady anyway 

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58 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Cincy has done well I feel in the portal. Being able to recruit to play in the Big 12 possibly helping.

Transfer in:

C.J. Frederick (Kentucky) 22 mpg, 6.1 ppg, 1.5 ast, 0.8 reb

Simas Lukosius (Butler) 33,3 mpg, 11.6 ppg, 4.0 reb, 2.9 ast

Jamille Reynolds (Temple) 20 mpg, 10.1 ppg, 5.4 reb, 0.7 ast

Azaz Badaogo (Utah Valley)  29.4 mpg, 11.5 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 2.9 bpg

Transer out:

Jeremiah Davenport (went to Arkansas)  25.6 mpg, 9.1 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 1.5 apg

Mika Adams-Woods (went to St. Bonaventure)  29.9 mpg, 9.1 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 3.2 apg

Jarrett Hensley (went to Southern Illinois) 7.7 mpg, 2.0 ppg, 0.9 ppg, 0.6 apg

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It's interesting in that Cincy seems to be going the opposite that other teams are going -- Bearcats are getting bigger and slower.  Frederick and Lukosius are decent sized 2/3 players who can shoot but won't win any foot races;  Reynolds and Badaogo are both true big posts (6'10", 285 and 7'0", 225) who can't be on the court at the same time.

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Up transfer Tomiwa Sulaiman (from division 2 Indiana University Pennsylvania) committed to Bryant very late in March.  Has reopened his commitment now.

6'6" combo forward from England.  Played for a very good D2 program at IU Pennsylvania which went 32-2.  Sulaiman averaged 12.6 points and 9.6 reb.  Shot 58% from the field and was 14 of 45 (31%) from three.

Obviously not a power 5 type of player, but should find a low/mid major to latch on to.  Not sure why he decommitted from Bryant.

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Nuggets from Trilly Donovan tonight:

Georgetown currently leads for Cam Spencer but the 'blue bloods are coming in hot'.  Did not elaborate to say who that included.  He did mention U Conn in another tweet but said they would have to 'get in line'.

Tyrin Lawrence was trending toward coming back to Vanderbilt.  No commitment yet but Vandy trying to get it done before he visits Texas Tech.  

Oliver Nkamhoua (Tennessee big man, 8 ppg and 7 rpg) had been trending toward turning pro (whether it be NBA, G league or overseas) but if he did come back the thought was Michigan would be most likely to get him as a grad transfer.  Now he has schedule a visit to West Virginia, whom MIchigan can not match in terms of NIL.

[Stuhoo]

6 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Nuggets from Trilly Donovan tonight:

Georgetown currently leads for Cam Spencer but the 'blue bloods are coming in hot'.  Did not elaborate to say who that included.  He did mention U Conn in another tweet but said they would have to 'get in line'.

Tyrin Lawrence was trending toward coming back to Vanderbilt.  No commitment yet but Vandy trying to get it done before he visits Texas Tech.  

Oliver Nkamhoua (Tennessee big man, 8 ppg and 7 rpg) had been trending toward turning pro (whether it be NBA, G league or overseas) but if he did come back the thought was Michigan would be most likely to get him as a grad transfer.  Now he has schedule a visit to West Virginia, whom MIchigan can not match in terms of NIL.

Theme…schools with rich alums who prioritize basketball over football do well in basketball NIL?

[AZ Hoosier]

23 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Nuggets from Trilly Donovan tonight:

Georgetown currently leads for Cam Spencer but the 'blue bloods are coming in hot'.  Did not elaborate to say who that included.  He did mention U Conn in another tweet but said they would have to 'get in line'.

Tyrin Lawrence was trending toward coming back to Vanderbilt.  No commitment yet but Vandy trying to get it done before he visits Texas Tech.  

Oliver Nkamhoua (Tennessee big man, 8 ppg and 7 rpg) had been trending toward turning pro (whether it be NBA, G league or overseas) but if he did come back the thought was Michigan would be most likely to get him as a grad transfer.  Now he has schedule a visit to West Virginia, whom MIchigan can not match in terms of NIL.

Making the assumption here that coming into Michigan as a grad transfer will eliminate the admissions hurdle.

[Demo]

https://www.nj.com/rutgersbasketball/2023/05/rutgers-transfer-cam-spencers-recruitment-beginning-to-take-shape.html

https://www.nj.com/rutgersbasketball/2023/05/rutgers-cam-spencer-enters-transfer-portal-here-are-5-possible-landing-spots.html

2 articles on Cam Spencer. Interesting bit of journalistic sleight of hand: the top article suggests some high end schools reaching out to Spencer, IU among them, and links to the bottom article. But, the bottom article doesn’t actually state that any of the schools listed are communicating with him, though at least some certainly are. It just lists logical fits.

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13 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Making the assumption here that coming into Michigan as a grad transfer will eliminate the admissions hurdle.

It does eliminate the hurdle.  Read in a separate article that grad transfers are pretty automatically in but that undergrads go through a credit by credit process.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

I’d say Spencer is a great fit for what we need. I like him a lot. The whole recruitment has slimey feel though now based on how Twitter has responded.  I hate that part unfortunately. 

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1 minute ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

I’d say Spencer is a great fit for what we need. I like him a lot. The whole recruitment has slimey feel though now based on how Twitter has responded.  I hate that part unfortunately. 

Sounds like Georgetown brought the slime…..but now that he is in the portal, would love to see IU benefit instead of Georgetown.

[Henryville Hoosier]

 

[Demo]

On 4/4/2023 at 4:31 PM, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Posting only because he held an IU offer.  Miami C Favour Aire has entered the transfer portal.

Committed to Penn St

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1 hour ago, Demo said:

Committed to Penn St

Believe he was a 4 star out of high school.  Only managed to play a total of about 40 minutes his freshman year at Miami.

elsewhere, Isaac Mushila of Texas A&M Corpus Christi transfers to New Mexico.  Best pound for pound rebounder in D1 (6’5”, averaged 10 rpg in 27 minutes last year).

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1 hour ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

 

One thing I will say is that Spencer is a great role player to whoever gets him but sounds like he’ll get NIL money like s superstar because of how bare the portal is in really great shooters now.