More than three months have passed since the men’s basketball transfer window opened, and it has been more than six weeks since it closed; nonetheless, we are finally getting closer and closer to the end of the portal season. Following the announcement that Coleman Hawkins would be attending Kansas State, there is just one player in the top 100 of ESPN’s transfer rankings who has not yet been committed to a school. Arthur Kaluma is the focus of everyone’s attention.
More than two thousand players entered the portal with the intention of switching schools, making it the busiest transfer window we’ve seen since the portal was first created. The transfer database on EvanMiya.com reveals that three teams, including Louisville, USC, and DePaul, have signed at least eleven athletes, while sixteen different programs have had at least ten players enter the portal.
In spite of the fact that there are still players who have not yet committed to the program and that recruiting classes won’t be completely finished until well into the summer, there is already more than enough information to decide which programs emerged from this transfer season with an enhanced roster and which teams had a significant number of talented players leave through the portal.
We have divided the more than fifty transfer classes into four distinct categories: the teams who were the biggest winners, the schools that were going through a complete rebuild, the teams that needed just one or two pieces to complete their rosters, and the ones that lost more talent than they received through the portal.
