Given the strangeness of this COVID year, I thought I'd start a topic tracking top-tier players (all-region caliber) who are listed as seniors but who have a year of eligibility remaining. I imagine some of these types of players will return to their current schools, and some may try to leverage their extra year of eligibility into a graduate opportunity (including, potentially, in D1). I'm curious if any of them have actually publicized their intentions? From the northeast corner of the country, there are some really strong players who could prolong their careers if they choose:
Ryan Turell, Yeshiva
Jaecee Martin, St. Joseph's
Marcus Azor, UMD
Sam Peek, Wesleyan
Terion Moss, Maine-Farmington
I think all of those guys might be able to generate some higher-level interest if they pursued it. Certainly, all have been dominant players at the D3 level (and Martin and Moss were originally D1 recruits before transferring to D3).
Besides Jaecee Martin, most of St. Joseph's listed seniors (all but Powell I think?) have an extra year remaining, so there is the potential for them all to come back to form an absolute juggernaut next year (they are already pretty darn good this year!).
Turell will, I think, have the most options -- playing pro ball at a high level abroad, returning to Yeshiva as a grad student, or seeking out a D1 opportunity, which I assume would be abundant for a player of his reputation.
Quote from: nescac1 on January 19, 2022, 09:35:57 AM
Given the strangeness of this COVID year, I thought I'd start a topic tracking top-tier players (all-region caliber) who are listed as seniors but who have a year of eligibility remaining. I imagine some of these types of players will return to their current schools, and some may try to leverage their extra year of eligibility into a graduate opportunity (including, potentially, in D1). I'm curious if any of them have actually publicized their intentions? From the northeast corner of the country, there are some really strong players who could prolong their careers if they choose:
Ryan Turell, Yeshiva
Jaecee Martin, St. Joseph's
Marcus Azor, UMD
Sam Peek, Wesleyan
Terion Moss, Maine-Farmington
I think all of those guys might be able to generate some higher-level interest if they pursued it. Certainly, all have been dominant players at the D3 level (and Martin and Moss were originally D1 recruits before transferring to D3).
Besides Jaecee Martin, most of St. Joseph's listed seniors (all but Powell I think?) have an extra year remaining, so there is the potential for them all to come back to form an absolute juggernaut next year (they are already pretty darn good this year!).
Turell will, I think, have the most options -- playing pro ball at a high level abroad, returning to Yeshiva as a grad student, or seeking out a D1 opportunity, which I assume would be abundant for a player of his reputation.
Illinois Wesleyan has 3 (all starters):
* Matt Leritz, 6-7 F/C (17.9 ppg, 11.0 rpg, 2.2 apg, .556 FG)
* Pete Lambesis, 6-4 G/F (11.6 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 3.5 apg) - stud defender
* Cory Noe, 6-2 SG (14.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg)
I've heard Leritz and Lambesis have interest in pursuing another year of basketball somewhere they can get a graduate degree...and ideally somewhere the $$ is right (scholarship $$, etc). I can't confirm that - just something I heard a while back.
I don't have any word on Noe.
Leritz grew up 2 blocks from WashU...family still lives there. I have simply asked many to make sure Matt does not end up at WashU for a year. :)
Interesting re: the IWU guys. If those three guys ended up returning to IWU (which I imagine has some grad programs being a university), woooo boy.
And certainly, the ability to be able to lure 5th years with a wide array of big-time grad programs is a massive advantage for UAA schools (as we've seen this year, as CWRU and Brandeis in particular have benefited from major-impact transfers). I could totally see a Leritz or Peek type playing a fifth year at a place like Wash U., which already is brimming with talent, and making them absolutely loaded ... and I'm sure Brandeis or Wash U. (both of which have huge Jewish populations) would be delighted to welcome Turell into the fold!
Quote from: nescac1 on January 19, 2022, 10:10:43 AM
Interesting re: the IWU guys. If those three guys ended up returning to IWU (which I imagine has some grad programs being a university), woooo boy.
For sure, the Titans would be loaded again if they returned.
Fortunately I think IWU is an interesting position here where even after those 3 leave the Titans might be really talented and deep next year:
G - Luke Yoder (6-1 Jr) and Hakim Williams (6-3 Fr)
G - Ryan Sroka (6-5 So) and Lucas Heflen (6-3 Jr) and Grant Taueg (6-2 So.)
G/F - Nick Roper (6-8 Fr) and Connor Heaton (6-5 Fr)
F - Cody Mitchell (6-7 Jr) and Evan Schneider (6-6 So)
F - Harrison Wilmsen (6-9 Fr), Grant Hardy (6-8 So)
That team is going to be great I think.
6-8 FR G Nick Roper has a chance to be really good - https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1482491450571083783?s=20.
Every student-athlete who was enrolled in the Spring 2020 potentially qualifies for a Covid year... Is that right?
Quote from: nescac1 on January 19, 2022, 10:10:43 AM
Interesting re: the IWU guys. If those three guys ended up returning to IWU (which I imagine has some grad programs being a university), woooo boy.
And certainly, the ability to be able to lure 5th years with a wide array of big-time grad programs is a massive advantage for UAA schools (as we've seen this year, as CWRU and Brandeis in particular have benefited from major-impact transfers). I could totally see a Leritz or Peek type playing a fifth year at a place like Wash U., which already is brimming with talent, and making them absolutely loaded ... and I'm sure Brandeis or Wash U. (both of which have huge Jewish populations) would be delighted to welcome Turell into the fold!
Turell isn't leaving for another d3 school. Yeshiva has plenty of grad programs if he wants to go that route. It'll be a Power Five D1 team or a pro career. He'll certainly be able to catch on to a G League team or have obvious opportunities in Israel.
I know they've been expecting Ryan Algier back at Rochester this Spring - but if he doesn't end up playing, he'd probably be able to get an injury exemption for one more year somewhere. Not sure what his future plans are, but that's another name to think about.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on January 19, 2022, 11:09:11 AM
Quote from: nescac1 on January 19, 2022, 10:10:43 AM
Interesting re: the IWU guys. If those three guys ended up returning to IWU (which I imagine has some grad programs being a university), woooo boy.
And certainly, the ability to be able to lure 5th years with a wide array of big-time grad programs is a massive advantage for UAA schools (as we've seen this year, as CWRU and Brandeis in particular have benefited from major-impact transfers). I could totally see a Leritz or Peek type playing a fifth year at a place like Wash U., which already is brimming with talent, and making them absolutely loaded ... and I'm sure Brandeis or Wash U. (both of which have huge Jewish populations) would be delighted to welcome Turell into the fold!
Turell isn't leaving for another d3 school. Yeshiva has plenty of grad programs if he wants to go that route. It'll be a Power Five D1 team or a pro career. He'll certainly be able to catch on to a G League team or have obvious opportunities in Israel.
I've heard Turell is about 95% certain to not play for YU next next year...and if he does leave it will 100% be for professional basketball.
Makes sense re: Turell. I think right now he would really struggle with the speed, strength and athleticism of G-League (let alone NBA) players. Bit with his shooting, skill, and hoops IQ, I think his game is really going to translate well in high-level foreign leagues (Israel, Spain, etc.) that appreciate the kinds of attributes he brings. I'm sure he'd be hugely popular and potentially a big star in Israeli pro hoops, which features a lot of real ballers.
Quote from: nescac1 on January 19, 2022, 12:22:00 PM
Makes sense re: Turell. I think right now he would really struggle with the speed, strength and athleticism of G-League (let alone NBA) players. Bit with his shooting, skill, and hoops IQ, I think his game is really going to translate well in high-level foreign leagues (Israel, Spain, etc.) that appreciate the kinds of attributes he brings. I'm sure he'd be hugely popular and potentially a big star in Israeli pro hoops, which features a lot of real ballers.
Agree. I think he will be a very good player in Israel (most likely) or Europe.
I don't see him as an NBA prospect.
Quote from: nescac1 on January 19, 2022, 10:10:43 AM
Interesting re: the IWU guys. If those three guys ended up returning to IWU (which I imagine has some grad programs being a university), woooo boy.
The word "university" is technically a misnomer in IWU's name, because the school does not have graduate programs.
Quote from: nescac1 on January 19, 2022, 10:10:43 AMAnd certainly, the ability to be able to lure 5th years with a wide array of big-time grad programs is a massive advantage for UAA schools (as we've seen this year, as CWRU and Brandeis in particular have benefited from major-impact transfers). I could totally see a Leritz or Peek type playing a fifth year at a place like Wash U., which already is brimming with talent, and making them absolutely loaded ... and I'm sure Brandeis or Wash U. (both of which have huge Jewish populations) would be delighted to welcome Turell into the fold!
Of course, the trick is
which graduate programs your school has in its array, wide or not. I suppose that there are some D3 players who have enough of a mercenary attitude that they would sign up for any old graduate program available in order to place themselves in the right basketball situation, with a clear intention not to bother finishing the degree once the eligibility is used up. But I doubt that there are many of them. The back end of college is a lot different than the front end in terms of a student-athlete's mentality; a career is much more of a looming prospect in one's life, and (hopefully) some maturity and foresight has been accrued along the way between matriculation and graduation. A master's degree in puppetry (yes, you can actually earn that degree at the University of Connecticut) probably isn't going to draw many serious student-athletes; an MBA or an MAE (the latter degree being particularly useful if one wants to go into coaching) is a degree much more likely to attract student-athletes who want to complete their eligibility. And some graduate programs -- medicine and law, for example -- are probably too rigorous in terms of academics to really be practical in tandem with playing varsity athletics.
I would say that in the case of grad programs at the UAA schools, it's the quality that matters just as much, if not more, than the quantity. If you're thinking about more than just the one final year you have available to you as a college athlete, you want to go to a grad school that has the sort of prestige that will make you a more attractive prospective employee. And that's the real selling point of a UAA school for student-athletes.
Quote from: Titan Q on January 19, 2022, 12:40:02 PM
Agree. I think he will be a very good player in Israel (most likely) or Europe.
I don't see him as an NBA prospect.
Be interesting to compare Turell's game to say Kevin Huerter, who is contributing in the NBA.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 19, 2022, 12:41:29 PM
A master's degree in puppetry (yes, you can actually earn that degree at the University of Connecticut) probably isn't going to draw many serious student-athletes; an MBA or an MAE (the latter degree being particularly useful if one wants to go into coaching) is a degree much more likely to attract student-athletes who want to complete their eligibility. And some graduate programs -- medicine and law, for example -- are probably too rigorous in terms of academics to really be practical in tandem with playing varsity athletics.
The Washington University women's basketball team had a player who was enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program. I have no idea how she made that work, but I believe she had to miss more practices and games than usual.
I am very surprised that Illinois Wesleyan does not have an Masters in Education, as many small colleges use those as cash cows (even if the quality is high), but bravo to the IWU in this regard.
Quote from: WUPHF on January 19, 2022, 01:14:00 PM
Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 19, 2022, 12:41:29 PM
A master's degree in puppetry (yes, you can actually earn that degree at the University of Connecticut) probably isn't going to draw many serious student-athletes; an MBA or an MAE (the latter degree being particularly useful if one wants to go into coaching) is a degree much more likely to attract student-athletes who want to complete their eligibility. And some graduate programs -- medicine and law, for example -- are probably too rigorous in terms of academics to really be practical in tandem with playing varsity athletics.
The Washington University women's basketball team had a player who was enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program. I have no idea how she made that work, but I believe she had to miss more practices and games than usual.
I am very surprised that Illinois Wesleyan does not have an Masters in Education, as many small colleges use those as cash cows (even if the quality is high), but bravo to the IWU in this regard.
I suspect for those popular degrees, it's tough for IWU to compete with Illinois State right around the corner. Volume helps keep costs down.
The other question will be whether the NCAA continues its loosened enrollment requirements through the next three years, or if they'll tighten things back up again. Currently, you can be full eligible with just one class in fall semester (if its your last class for an undergraduate degree) and then two in the spring - but there's no guarantee that'll continue. If it does, though, and all the players who are eligible for the extra COVID year can play under those circumstances, you might find more players using that 5th year.
There's no reason a player couldn't move on with their life and get a job and still manage that load and basketball - lots of them are doing it this year.
Ryan Turell will not be able to easily catch on with a G-League team.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on January 19, 2022, 01:57:08 PM
I suspect for those popular degrees, it's tough for IWU to compete with Illinois State right around the corner. Volume helps keep costs down.
This is most certainly part of it, but the Masters of Education programs are usually very cheap to administer and get students who are finishing up a degree without a career plan in mind. And those who believe that there is a correlation between cost and quality.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on January 19, 2022, 02:00:58 PM
There's no reason a player couldn't move on with their life and get a job and still manage that load and basketball - lots of them are doing it this year.
That could be an interesting story, I think, if you were looking for something to write about. The last story was very good by the way...
Quote from: WUPHF on January 19, 2022, 02:16:38 PM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on January 19, 2022, 01:57:08 PM
I suspect for those popular degrees, it's tough for IWU to compete with Illinois State right around the corner. Volume helps keep costs down.
This is most certainly part of it, but the Masters of Education programs are usually very cheap to administer and get students who are finishing up a degree without a career plan in mind. And those who believe that there is a correlation between cost and quality.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on January 19, 2022, 02:00:58 PM
There's no reason a player couldn't move on with their life and get a job and still manage that load and basketball - lots of them are doing it this year.
That could be an interesting story, I think, if you were looking for something to write about. The last story was very good by the way...
Ryan wrote about this in December:
https://d3hoops.com/columns/around-the-nation/2021-22/back-for-an-extra-year
Of course he did... Thanks Pat! +1
Quote from: WUPHF on January 19, 2022, 02:16:38 PM
This is most certainly part of it, but the Masters of Education programs are usually very cheap to administer and get students who are finishing up a degree without a career plan in mind. And those who believe that there is a correlation between cost and quality.
Not exactly true, depending on the state, there is a lot of administration [tracking observation and practice teaching hours etc.] required to offer teacher certification programs, esp those that allow undergrad libbies to morph to teacher ed. The state schools have an advantage as most of them have robust teacher education programs, and since in most states a masters degree is required for continuing employment as a teacher, they already have those in place. They are not exactly cheap, - I used to be a budget officer for a state school that had both undergrad and grad teacher ed programs.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on January 19, 2022, 02:00:58 PM
The other question will be whether the NCAA continues its loosened enrollment requirements through the next three years, or if they'll tighten things back up again. Currently, you can be full eligible with just one class in fall semester (if its your last class for an undergraduate degree) and then two in the spring - but there's no guarantee that'll continue. If it does, though, and all the players who are eligible for the extra COVID year can play under those circumstances, you might find more players using that 5th year.
There's no reason a player couldn't move on with their life and get a job and still manage that load and basketball - lots of them are doing it this year.
DIII (not the NCAA) will likely continue to monitor the allowances they are giving on a year to year basis. But to be fair ... no senior needed to take a full credit load in their final semester in any sport prior to this. The limit was certainly based on each institution, but it wasn't like the rule currently being put to the side forced a full student credit load. As long as the student is in good standing with the institution, they can play sports in their final semester with a part-time load.
Quote from: thebear on January 19, 2022, 03:19:07 PM
Not exactly true, depending on the state, there is a lot of administration [tracking observation and practice teaching hours etc.] required to offer teacher certification programs, esp those that allow undergrad libbies to morph to teacher ed. The state schools have an advantage as most of them have robust teacher education programs, and since in most states a masters degree is required for continuing employment as a teacher, they already have those in place. They are not exactly cheap, - I used to be a budget officer for a state school that had both undergrad and grad teacher ed programs.
I worked at a small private in Illinois and they targeted certified teachers who needed the sheepskin. They used other elementary and secondary teachers as adjunct professors. That was the model I was thinking about. But I understand your point...public institutions especially.
It's fair to say that the COVID year is going to lead to, once again, a lot of high-profile transfers this year. Who are the D3 guys who might head to D1, or make a huge impact as D3 grad student transfers?
Wesleyan's Sam Peek and IWU's Matt Leritz are both officially in the transfer portal, and it will be interesting to see where they land. I imagine both are eyeing D1, but I'm sure, say, a UAA school would love to leverage their extensive grad programs to grab either.
Matthew Schner, Jarred Houston, Lukas Isaly, Jaecee Martin (who started his career in D1) and Marcus Azor seem like other guys with a year of eligibility left who would make for intriguing transfers that would be game changers for ANY D3 team or could potentially get a shot at the scholarship level, but I'm not sure what their plans are ...
Azor's going pro. Isaly is either back at Marietta or getting a job.
Quote from: nescac1 on March 25, 2022, 05:17:43 PM
It's fair to say that the COVID year is going to lead to, once again, a lot of high-profile transfers this year. Who are the D3 guys who might head to D1, or make a huge impact as D3 grad student transfers?
Wesleyan's Sam Peek and IWU's Matt Leritz are both officially in the transfer portal, and it will be interesting to see where they land. I imagine both are eyeing D1, but I'm sure, say, a UAA school would love to leverage their extensive grad programs to grab either.
I believe Leritz grew up/went to HS about 10 minutes from WashU so........................... :D
Quote from: Next Man Up on March 25, 2022, 11:10:41 PM
Quote from: nescac1 on March 25, 2022, 05:17:43 PM
It's fair to say that the COVID year is going to lead to, once again, a lot of high-profile transfers this year. Who are the D3 guys who might head to D1, or make a huge impact as D3 grad student transfers?
Wesleyan's Sam Peek and IWU's Matt Leritz are both officially in the transfer portal, and it will be interesting to see where they land. I imagine both are eyeing D1, but I'm sure, say, a UAA school would love to leverage their extensive grad programs to grab either.
On the ball habatim podcast the other day, Leritz basically said he is looking at pursuing a scholarship because of the cost of a MBA program. It sounded like it was outside of D3 because of the mention of the scholarship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMDGeidDdEE
I believe Leritz grew up/went to HS about 10 minutes from WashU so........................... :D
As reported on the CCIW board, IWU's Luke Yoder is looking to transfer to a scholarship program (two years of eligibility left).
I thought that the portal musical chairs phenomenon was going to leave players stranded last season or cancelling the transfer altogether, but a fair number of players found new homes. I am thinking more of Division II players here, but I was surprised how many Division II players moved up to Division I.
It will be interesting to see how many players return for a fifth season overall, having completed a full season and a tournament in 2021-2022. I am not sure that the completion of a mostly normal season will result in fewer returning players, but let's see.
It's just really hard to imagine a world in which most of the players mentioned can find homes in D1 when there are so many other options for coaches at that level. Duncan Robinson and Austin Hutcherson were appealing also because of the fact that they had to sit a year out which allowed them to physically prepare for that level. I don't really know why a D1 coach would want a D3 kid who is just getting thrown into the fire and has to adjust on the fly---by the time he figures out how to play, the season will be almost over.
Schner and Peek to me from the names I've seen so far are really the only guys who look physically capable of making an impact at a D1 program, and even then I would expect their impacts to be marginal. There are just too many other options.
Whether or not guys ultimately prove successful in transferring up, it seems clear that next season will have fewer major impact fifth-year guys in the D3 ranks. This year, the season (and especially the tournament) was dominated by such players ... Buzz Anthony, Jack Davidson, Jake Rhode, Jack Nolan, Jason Ellis, Conner Delaney, Jordan James, Luke Rogers, Gabe Leiffer, Quentin Shields, Jason Aigner, Luke Morrison, Nyameye Adom, just to name a few, the list goes on and on including lots of important role players on top teams. But the early indications for next year are that we will see very few pre-season all-American types who are fifth year seniors. Most guys seem to either be moving on, or trying to move up.
I think there are three major reasons for that. First, with the last TWO D3 seasons left unfinished, I think a lot of guys felt they had unfinished business in college and wanted to stick around for a full season, including a full tourney. This year, at least, everyone had a chance to make a full run at the brass ring. It must have especially burned guys whose teams were still alive when the tourney was called off in 2020 to never get the chance to go to a Final Four, so it's unsurprising that LOTS of guys from those teams (Elmhurt, Tufts, Wash U., RMC, Yeshiva, CNU, Swarthmore all had notable fifth-year guys) in particular decided to postpone graduation for a year.
Second, I think some of the truly elite players who are graduating with a year of eligibility left got to (unlike last year) showcase their skills and put together a full highlight tape for D1 teams, so they probably feel that they have a better shot of leveraging hoops into a year of playing D1, and maybe a scholarship to grad school, or even going the professional route like Turrel and, apparently, Azor.
Third, there just aren't a lot of teams who "just missed" this year, who have significant fourth-year seniors with an extra year of eligibility left who might be especially inspired to stick around for a title run. Illinois Wesleyan comes to mind but clearly they have some guys looking to transfer up. But if you look at the rest of the top 10, those teams have a lot of great players who exhausted eligibility, and not very many key 4th year seniors. I imagine it's a lot more tempting to come back for a fifth year, disrupting your post-graduation plans, if you think you will be on a legit national title contender.
There are more than 800 players currently in the transfer portal after over 1,700 entered it a year ago. Almost all of those players are current D1 players. The competition for scholarships has never been higher. Current HS players ranked in the top 200 are all fighting those transfers for scholarships as well. It would take a special D3 talent to make the move up like a Duncan Robinson.
While the transfer landscape is indeed more competitive than ever, you don't need to be a Duncan Robinson to go from D3 to D1 successfully, even with so many guys looking to transfer. Remember, for every guy leaving a D1 program, that D1 program has a spot it needs to fill. If (just to speak about NESCAC guys over the past decade, but there are other examples; these are just the examples I know best) Matt Hart and Hunter Sabety could be D1 rotation players (in Hart's case, at a fairly strong program in GW), and Austin Hutcherson could receive a scholarship from a Big 10 school (sadly, injuries derailed his D1 career, but Illinois was very high on him), that means there are a handful of current D3 guys who could do so. Indeed, Sam Peek just received a D1 scholarship offer from UMBC, and I imagine more are coming.
If I'm a D1 coach outside of a power conference, and I have a particular need to fill for a year, and I can get a proven D3 guy who has had huge success playing four years of college hoops, I think I feel pretty good that a 23 year old four-year player will likely have more immediate success than a more talented but far more raw 18 year old frosh who is not a top-250 type of recruit. Sam Peek is something that most college coaches have trouble finding -- a big, athletic wing who can score with tough, creative interior finishes and can also elevate and make contested shots out to the three point line (even if he doesn't have the explosive first-step quickness D1 wings tend to have). Some of the other potential transfers I can see having a tougher time -- Leritz, for example, is a prototypical D3 big man but is too small to play center at D1 and doesn't really translate to a perimeter player in D1, so as great as he was for IWU, I'm not sure where he fits in at a D1 school, maybe he could play the 4 at a Patriot League school because he does shoot well from 3.
I think the guys who translate best are late-developing bigs (at least 6'9, ideally bigger) who were a bit awkward in high school but made huge improvements during college, and shooters with size on the wing or at guard. Everyone wants more three point shooting, certainly, and if you can just survive defensively, a proven D3 marksman can help a lot of D1 programs. Schner I think could find a role in D1 as a wing with range, although he's several inches shorter than Peek which makes him less of an appealing option, despite his proven scoring prowess.
Quote from: nescac1 on March 29, 2022, 09:40:04 AM
If I'm a D1 coach outside of a power conference, and I have a particular need to fill for a year, and I can get a proven D3 guy who has had huge success playing four years of college hoops, I think I feel pretty good that a 23 year old four-year player will likely have more immediate success than a more talented but far more raw 18 year old frosh who is not a top-250 type of recruit.
There is no doubt that a handful of experienced D3 players could be a rotation player at a D1 school. The competition for those spots, however, are the over 1,000 players in the portal who have D1 experience. Certainly some of those were sitting the bench and the experienced D3 player may be more attractive. A larger percentage of those transfers are kids with 1-3 yrs experience against D1 competition, which makes the bar for the D3 transfers higher. With Covid and the extra year of eligibilty, there are literally hundreds more players seeking those roster spots than ever before. In addition, there are the prep schools who have post-graduates. The NEPSCAC in New England is the highest profile of those schools where players go to get a "5th" year of high school and play in games that are high level games. All of these, but primarily the portal, have made the competitive landscape for scholarship spots more intense.
Sam Peek has three D1 offers so far (Jacksonville, Stetson, UMBC). Not too shabby!
NESCAC's leading scorer last year, Stephon Baxter, is also in the transfer portal. He has D1 skills but his size will be a real obstacle (5'11 on a good day). He has apparently heard from Southern Utah so far. He's definitely a longer shot than Peek, but not impossible ... for whatever reason, NESCAC seems to be the only league that regularly ends up losing players to Division 1 (Austin Hutcherson, Duncan Robinson, Matt Hart, Hunter Sabety, Varun Ram). Speaks to the caliber of NESCAC talent, but also, man, that's a huge talent drain over the past decade and a lot of what ifs for NESCAC squads ... if Hutcherson and Peek could have played together as an experienced duo, that would have been something!
This is not transfer news, but I believe the following notable players are all coming back for fifth years with their respective programs:
Jaecee Martin, Tyree Mitchell, and Delshawn Jackson (St. Joe's)
Darian Peterson, CNU
Ethan Stanislawski, Mount Union
None of that is 100 percent confirmed, but it seems very likely for each. If Peterson is back, that would be four returning starters for CNU, and I think they are clearly in the top two teams with RMC in that event.
A recent story on Matthew Schner:
"He could definitely play at the Division I level and play meaningful minutes," says Zimmerman. "He could be an effective player on both ends of the court.
"We're trying to get him back for one more year, but we'll see how that works."
Understandably, Schner feels ambivalent. On one hand, he still has hopes of playing professionally overseas (although the number of leagues has diminished due to the pandemic), for which exposure at the D-I level would be invaluable. But he also feels loyal to Emory and the city of Atlanta, his home for the past half-decade.
"The amount of support that I've gotten from teammates and people throughout the Emory community and definitely our coaching staff has been really special. That's what makes it so hard for me to think about leaving. I think I've helped elevate what Emory basketball is and I take great pride in that.
"This is my home, wherever I end up."
https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/basketball-star-matthew-schner-may-say-goodbye-to-emory/
Quote from: nescac1 on April 07, 2022, 09:55:15 AM
Sam Peek has three D1 offers so far (Jacksonville, Stetson, UMBC). Not too shabby!
NESCAC's leading scorer last year, Stephon Baxter, is also in the transfer portal. He has D1 skills but his size will be a real obstacle (5'11 on a good day). He has apparently heard from Southern Utah so far. He's definitely a longer shot than Peek, but not impossible ... for whatever reason, NESCAC seems to be the only league that regularly ends up losing players to Division 1 (Austin Hutcherson, Duncan Robinson, Matt Hart, Hunter Sabety, Varun Ram). Speaks to the caliber of NESCAC talent, but also, man, that's a huge talent drain over the past decade and a lot of what ifs for NESCAC squads ... if Hutcherson and Peek could have played together as an experienced duo, that would have been something!
This is not transfer news, but I believe the following notable players are all coming back for fifth years with their respective programs:
Jaecee Martin, Tyree Mitchell, and Delshawn Jackson (St. Joe's)
Darian Peterson, CNU
Ethan Stanislawski, Mount Union
None of that is 100 percent confirmed, but it seems very likely for each. If Peterson is back, that would be four returning starters for CNU, and I think they are clearly in the top two teams with RMC in that event.
I hope you're right, but I thought Peterson has played 4 full seasons already. I'm not sure how COVID plays into this. Does everyone automatically get a 5th year? How does that work?
I saw that Peterson had listed himself as class of 2023 at CNU. I think anyone who played in 20-21 can take a fifth year as that year, as a COVID year, doesn't count against eligibility. I could be wrong, since he was in D2 that season, and maybe things work differently. Aigner is a big loss of course but if those other four dudes are back, CNU looks pretty scary next year.
DaK'quan Davis headed to Albany:
https://www.cityofbasketballlove.com/news_article/show/1220568
Quote from: nescac1 on April 14, 2022, 08:14:19 AM
DaK'quan Davis headed to Albany:
https://www.cityofbasketballlove.com/news_article/show/1220568
What a great story! I wish him the best!
Davis, who is 6-1, and a stout 185 pounds, led the MAC Freedom in scoring his senior year with a 23.1-point average and was seventh on the team in rebounding (6.5).
Not to nitpick, and I didn't look up any stats, but I'm guessing he was 7th in the league in rebounding, not on his team. That would be a pretty awesome team if 6.5 rpg was only good for 7th on his team.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on April 15, 2022, 06:44:19 PM
Davis, who is 6-1, and a stout 185 pounds, led the MAC Freedom in scoring his senior year with a 23.1-point average and was seventh on the team in rebounding (6.5).
Not to nitpick, and I didn't look up any stats, but I'm guessing he was 7th in the league in rebounding, not on his team. That would be a pretty awesome team if 6.5 rpg was only good for 7th on his team.
The Lords of Leap! :D
Matt Schner is headed to Lipscomb.
No way he was coming back for season No. 6, including the injury and gap year for what is going to be a down year for Emory, relatively speaking.
Interestingly, Schner was part of a class that had a break out performance against Lipscomb, competing with a loaded Eagles senior class for playing time in an exhibition game that was WAY closer than the final score. Schner did not play in that game.
Sam Pek of Wesleyan to Stetson.
https://twitter.com/speek_12/status/1518716614870450182
Stetson and Lipscomb are conference rivals so they may get to guard one another next year. That would be fun! Stetson loses its only three capable wing scorers (two to transfer) so it's a great landing spot for Peek. If Austin Hutcherson is finally healthy and opts to play his last year at Illinois we could see two Wesleyan transfers on D1 rides simultaneously. Oh what could have been for Wes this year! A hypothetical top five of Jordan James, Maccoux, Hutcherson, Peek and Johnson would have been nearly unbeatable ...
Lovell Williams has committed to Missouri S&T. Who? Williams was a stud sophomore playing for perennial WIAC bottom feeder UW-Stout. They were actually pretty good this past year, at least for their standards. Williams was first team All Conference. He averaged 18+ a game, 4.6 boards, had a + 53 A/TO and 47 steals.
Matt Leritz will play his last year at Division II Bentley. Seems like a great fit -- Bentley has no big guys returning, and Bentley is a top-tier D2 team, so Leritz should get a chance to be a big contributor for a strong program without getting overwhelmed by D1-sized athletes inside.
Two D1 transfers who should make an immediate impact in D3:
Drew Lutz transferring to Bethel from Incarnate Word
Luke Chicone transferring to John Carroll from Youngstown State
(Jerry Higgins is also transferring to John Carroll from Citadel and could also make an impact)
Lutz averaged 11-4-3 as a D1 starter (at a marginal D1 program, but still). Chicone was a rotation player for a respectable D1 Youngstown State program as a first year. Chicone was first-team all Ohio as a senior.
John Carroll up to 4 D1 transfers.
https://doggyorama.com/john-carroll-mens-basketball-program-gets-fourth-di-transfer-in-lake-catholic-grad-luke-frazier-news-herald/
Pretty wild re: John Carroll. Although as we've seen in the fairly recent past, just loading up on D1 transfers doesn't = instant success (see the Babson team that tried that after Flannery graduated). It all depends on the quality of the D1 guys. The H.S. credentials of those four guys (and in one case, the college credentials as well) are certainly, however, impressive.
Going the other direction, we've already seen three D3 guys land D1 scholarships and one land a scholarship at a top-tier D2 program. Here are some other D3 guys who have announced they are seeking to transfer. I'd say these guys are a tier (or two) down from the four who have committed to date, but one or two will end up in D1 and I think most will at least be able to land a D2 scholarship, if that is their goal. Yoder and Lash look the most interesting, if I'm a D1 coach. Yoder has an offer already. Lash has three years left, was the leading scorer and rebounder on a decent team, and has good enough size to play the wing at the next level.
Luke Yoder, IWU (two years eligibility, offer from Western Illinois)
Peter Lash, NWU (three years eligibility)
Isaiah Geathers, Lehman (grad transfer, one year)
Stephon Baxter, Bates (two years)
Jai Love, University of Dallas (grad transfer, one year)
Pete Lambesis, IWU (grad transfer, one year)
I know this was a weird season, but as more and more D3 to D1 guys have success at the next level, I wonder if this will become a growing trend. It's pretty clear that somewhere around 5-6 D3 guys per year could catch the eye of multiple D1 programs, if that is their goal.
Updates in the past month on D3 guys transferring up (or looking to do so):
Luke Yoder committed to D1 North Dakota State
Peter Lash committed to D2 Trevecca Nazarene
Brandon Christlieb (from Manchester College) transferred to D2 Bemidji State
Isaiah Archie from Pitt Bradford is looking to transfer up
I believe Geathers, Lambesis, Love, and Baxter are all still looking for landing spots. As of now, that makes at least four D1 scholarships and four D2 scholarships for transfers from D3. Of course, John Carroll nearly evens that out on its own, with scholarship guys heading the other direction :).
Also, in D3 to D3 news, Susquehanna's Danny Frauenheim is doing a 5th year at Case Western. He should step right into Griff Kornaker's role there.
Collen Gurley returning to Mount Union from Youngstown State. Should (along with their other notable transfer) make Mount Union a top five preseason team. Mount Union and John Carroll look absolutely stacked with talent next year. OAC is going to be tough.
One update on the outstanding transfer list, the rest seem all still to be waiting for offers:
Pete Lambesis joining Peter Lash at D2 Trevecca Nazarene
And, there is another rumored D3 to D1 transfer, Joe Palmer of Augsburg to Colorado State ... that would be a big one:
https://twitter.com/d3_talk/status/1546352874908749824?s=20&t=WRb5yIRM1MTp4IzEixYomg
Palmer to Colorado State is official:
https://twitter.com/csumbasketball/status/1550208437203922945?s=21&t=r7ia94chIInKSA07O6SRnQ
Will be really fun to see how all these D3 stars fare in D1 next year ....
Just thought I'd toss that out there. Here are a few guys (I'm sure there are others) who are going to be seniors with a fifth year of eligibility after next season, who I think could be on the D1 grad transfer radar depending on how their senior years go:
Miles Mallory, RMC; Josh Talbert, RMC; John Lowther, WPI; Dylan Thoerner, Tufts; Austin Grunder, Cortland; DJ Campbell, Stockton; Evan Thomas, Hope; Dan Carr, Augustana; Levi Borchert, Oshkosh; Josiah Johnson, MHB.
I'm not saying that the majority of those guys could / will end up playing a fifth year in D1. Just that they are worth watching.
Mallory and Talbert both have D1 skills and athleticism, and have been huge contributors for three years on the best team in D3, but are each a bit undersized for their current position at the next level. If Talbert can transition to a PG role with Anthony gone, I think he's a pretty good bet though, so physically strong and skilled. Mallory would have to show he can play on the wing. John Lowther fits the Sam Peek / Schner / Palmer profile of a good-sized athletic wing who can shoot the 3, which is what every D1 school is clearly desperate for. I've never seen Grunder play but his stats are ridiculous, he's seemingly big and strong and can shoot the 3, so if he can guard opposing wings he seems like another guy to watch closely ...
Johnson, Campbell, Borchert and Carr are other hugely productive guys in D3 who also may just be a few inches too small for their projected D1 positions. Thoerner would have to make a massive leap forward as a player, but first-team all NESCAC in his second year playing is impressive and he is another wing who can shoot it.
^^^ What's the likelihood that some of these guys might instead be on the "five-year plan" at their current institutions and stay put for their fifth year of eligibility?
I would also think it is difficult enough to change position alone. Then add in changing position and going from D3 to D1. Not impossible. But certainly challenging.
jack, I bet a good number of them will do a five-year plan. Especially at the schools that offer grad programs. Tufts has had a lot of guys doing a graduate year so I think it's a good bet that Thoerner sticks around for a fifth year there. The RMC duo are the two who I would most expect to explore D1 options, as they are really good, have already accomplished so much, and still have another year left ... Lowther would be my next guess, although WPI has plenty of grad programs if he decides to stick around. For that matter, John Adams at WPI will graduate (in 2024) with a year of eligibility remaining, so he's another guy to watch ...
NYU has not one but two Division I transfers according to their latest release. In addition to the Dookie, they got a graduate transfer from Harvard. Both played limited minutes so it is hard to know how good they might be.
https://gonyuathletics.com/news/2022/8/4/pair-of-division-i-transfers-highlight-2022-23-mens-basketball-newcomers.aspx
Spencer Freeman to NYU is a VERY interesting transfer (I think the Duke walk-on, probably less-so). He was a big-time recruit in high school with a bunch of high-level D1 offers. Things seemed to have not gone his way at Harvard, after being in the rotation as a frosh, he did not play (for reasons that aren't clear) as a sophomore and then his junior year was cancelled due to COVID. He was again in the rotation to start his senior year, but then suffered an injury which caused him to miss most of December and January, and he only played a limited role thereafter. He should have two years of eligibility left if he wants to use both at NYU. He's a very slick true PG in the Steve Nash mold (or if looking for a D3 comparison, Andrew Olson is the most obvious one) and could be a very fun player to watch in D3 if he is healthy and fully engaged. Again, while I'm not sure why it didn't work out at Harvard, the guy has D3 all-American level talent for sure. Check out his H.S. mix tape, he's legit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0v5Mvmrzk4
Not your typical point guard mix tape. Very interesting.
I did see a stat that suggested that 43% of Division I who entered the portal have yet to find a team.
Those guys are not going to play at NYU, but there are enough open and rolling admissions schools that players could find a home at a Fontbonne or Webster or some other school.
Interesting, WUPHF. In New England, Nichols and St. Joseph's have both benefited from D1 or high level JUCO transfers in recent years, so I'd be keeping a close eye on them as potential late transfer destinations. One big-time guy added could vault either into a higher level of contention.
I think this year is already one in which D1 transfers will probably have a bigger impact than any year in D3 history (in addition to NYU, Mount Union, Bethel, and especially John Carroll -- that we know of, most likely there are others -- will be significantly impacted by incoming D1 guys). The COVID effect continues to wreak havoc with prognostication, and probably will for another year (at least) after this one ...
The Liberty League has had a few in recent years as well, SLU last year brought in 2 alone. Ithaca's best player last season was a D1 transfer. Before the pandemic I can't ever really recall that happening in the league. Plenty of players in the league have transferred to D1, but not from.
One league I would keep an eye out for this is the SUNYAC. You mentioned rolling admissions, and with most SUNY schools having late application/enrollment deadlines it's easier for them to get late additions.
Quote from: WUPHF on August 11, 2022, 10:05:44 AM
Not your typical point guard mix tape. Very interesting.
I did see a stat that suggested that 43% of Division I who entered the portal have yet to find a team.
Those guys are not going to play at NYU, but there are enough open and rolling admissions schools that players could find a home at a Fontbonne or Webster or some other school.
As an educational institution I think Webster could appeal to some potential D1 transfers, depending on their field of study. As a basketball program -- hard to say.
Quote from: y_jack_lok on August 12, 2022, 09:23:34 AM
As an educational institution I think Webster could appeal to some potential D1 transfers, depending on their field of study. As a basketball program -- hard to say.
This is the philosophical question...
For a player who is a year or more past the photo shoots and press releases that come with signing with a Division I team and then going through the process of leaving a program and every other opportunity they have at their current institution...
Is giving up on basketball altogether and remaining a student at
directional state university better than going elsewhere and playing? Especially when, as mentioned, there are great educational opportunities at institutions such as Webster.
I imagine that the answer will be yes for most students, but I am surprised we have not seen more make the move than we have already.
I think about a guy like Hakim Harris who played at two Division I institutions and then transferred to NYU. He was good enough to play in the Ivy League, but clearly enjoyed his final season at NYU and made the most of it.
Quote from: y_jack_lok on August 12, 2022, 09:23:34 AM
Quote from: WUPHF on August 11, 2022, 10:05:44 AM
Not your typical point guard mix tape. Very interesting.
I did see a stat that suggested that 43% of Division I who entered the portal have yet to find a team.
Those guys are not going to play at NYU, but there are enough open and rolling admissions schools that players could find a home at a Fontbonne or Webster or some other school.
As an educational institution I think Webster could appeal to some potential D1 transfers, depending on their field of study. As a basketball program -- hard to say.
Someday there's going to be a stud in the D1 transfer portal who really likes chess, and then we're all gonna be sorry. ;)
That reminds me of that time that Webster had billboards advertising the chess program and had a few members of the chess team suited up in basketball uniforms. There was some consternation among the athletes of the other sports.
About 12 years ago, I think it was 2010-11, Webster had a D1 caliber player, Willie Trimble, for that one season. He made an otherwise decent team quite good, but not good enough to get out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament, losing to Augustana by quite a bit.
Nichols posted its preliminary roster and for the second year in a row brings in some high profile transfers:
Quincy Ferebee, who was a rotation player at U. Portland, and Tavon Jones, who was on the roster at NIU but was injured. Both have very strong H.S. credentials.
In addition, Devin Wade-Henderson played one game for Alcorn State as a frosh before going to a JUCO, so he could be interesting as well, and there seems to be some other JUCO guys as well. Nichols has its four transfers from last year (one D1, one D2, two high-level JUCO guys including one who was hurt but could be a star) back as well, so it's clear that the coach there is going to build his program in ways that worked out very well for Cabrini and Rowan way back when. They should be a team to watch going forward, given the level of transfer player they have attracted over the past two years ...
They basically have the same guys, including the new transfers, minus Matt Morrow. Matt Alectus was listed as a grad student last year and he's listed as a senior on the preliminary roster. They should be an exciting team to follow again.
Correction to an earlier post - Drew Lutz transferred to Bethel (IN), not MN ... whoops!
Here's a list (I'm sure not complete) of especially significant players listed as seniors on the roster but with (I believe) a year of eligibility remaining. Many of these guys may earn higher level looks, if interested, and many could be difference-makers for contending teams. All guys to keep an eye on in 2023:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Josh Angle - CMC
Austin Grunder - Cortland
John Lowther - WPI
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Daniel Carr - Augustana
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Ryan Clement - HSC
Jack Clement - OWU
RMC in particular will be crazy loaded if Talbert and Mallory stick around. Lowther is WPI's only senior of note. Same with Clement on HSC. If Hunter returns Keene will be again be loaded.
^^^ I do not have any inside information, but it would surprise me if Mallory and Talbert return for another year art R-MC. They've already won a National Championship. Maybe, in the unlikely event R-MC wins it all again this coming March, they might want to stick around to attempt a three-peat. But it makes more sense to me for guys to move on with their lives.
I would think one or both of the RMC guys would attract some D1 interest, if they want to go for a scholarship. Both a bit undersized for that level, but elite two-way athletes and can't argue with the big game production.
Grunder is also 24, or will be very soon. Doubt he comes back for another year.
Update on this list. So far I've not seen anything to indicate that anyone on this list is returning, except for Jeff Hunter, who will be back after putting up first team all American numbers this season:
https://www.keene.edu/news/stories/detail/for-jeff-hunter-owl-basketball-team-winning-has-become-habit-forming/
Keene returns all but one rotation player, Cichon, a solid role player. They should be absolutely loaded next year with all the key guys back plus a full year of Tahmeen Dupree - a potential preseason number one. And Hunter, a workout warrior who has improved quite a bit each season, will surely be the consensus pre-season POTY.
I believe that Spencer Freedman will be returning for NYU next year. He noted in an early season interview that he had another year left (in addition to COVID year, he was hurt for a year at Harvard). If so he's a sure-fire pre-season all-American, and NYU, with its four top scorers returning and a brand new facility to help draw recruits, could be a big factor nationally.
From UMHB, Josiah Johnson and Kyle Wright both have the opportunity to come back for another year, which would be huge. Johnson already has UMHB's all-time scoring record...crazy to think this is only his 3rd season in Belton.
Freedman is certainly an AA candidate and a huge piece of NYU making more noise on a national level should he return next year, but does anybody else find it kind of ridiculous that he is turning 25 years old in June and still playing college basketball? I know by current NCAA rules he has another year of eligibility left, but at some point there should really be some type of age limits considered.
I don't think so. If there's the Covid year, a redshirt injury year etc, why not, as long as he's playing by the rules? Todd Chin was a near-30 yr old goalie who led Stevens Point to the hockey national championship in '89. He served in the military prior to going to UWSP, I believe. There are numerous other circumstances that could cause someone to not attend college right after high school.
There are going to be lots of dudes playing college sports this year and next who are in the 23-25 range. First of all, lots of athletes now take a prep year to begin with. Add in a redshirt year and/or a COVID gap year and many college hoops players are in their sixth year out of high school right now, or next year. Freedman is actually the perfect example of how college athletics should work. He was robbed of two years of competition through no fault of his own. Now he gets to play four years of the sport he loves at a high level while earning a Harvard degree plus a prestigious two year graduate degree from NYU. That's a heck of a lot of better than the SEC model where guys play a couple years at most, barely attend class, rarely get a degree, and are exploited by athletic departments making millions of dollars off their athletic exploits.
For the record, Spencer Freedman graduated high school (not prep school) in June of 2018 and promptly turned 20 two weeks later. While his classmates were graduating high school at 18, he was graduating at 20. The reason he was able to do this is because the California high school athletic governing body has a rule that states you can still be eligible to play sports in high school as long as you are 19 or younger on June 15th (he was 19 and 350 days at that point). The vast majority of states follow a August 31st or Sept 1st date for this. These rules are typically in place for hardship scenarios and kids with social or economic disadvantages. Freedman is obviously an outstanding student (having first attended Harvard and now NYU), there was no academic or hardship reason for him to still be in high school at 20 years old. So clearly an orchestrated effort that started in middle school to get him the opportunity to play D1 basketball at an elite institution - which worked, so good for him. Heck, I guess it could be even more distorted had he attended a prep school for a year after high school. When you attend an Ivy league school as an athlete, you know you are signing on for only four years of eligibility at that institution. So that choice was made by he and his family. He had no intention of playing D3 basketball at any time in his career. I get it, things happened and here he is at NYU for two years and will still be playing next year as he approaches age 26. Nothing against Freedman as I am sure he is an outstanding young man, but this can't be the example of how D3 athletics should work.
I go back and forth on how I think about all this. On one hand I do think players should be able to play 4 full seasons if they are eligible, on the other hand I do find it a bit ridiculous that there are 24/25 year olds competing against 18 year olds. No matter the talent, there is a major competitive advantage when you're 24 years old playing against an 18 year old. I personally would have no issue with an age limit of 23, but that will never happen. There is a worrying trend in division III of things starting to model division I.
For a kid going to Harvard and NYU, it probably wasn't an effort to maximize basketball, it was likely an effort to maximize his academic achievement. Malcolm Gladwell had an interesting podcast on this phenomenon in his most recent season - the very top academic institutions and programs have an inordinate amount of "over-age" students. Kids learn better the older they are, so there's been a trend in the last generation, to start kids a year late or hold them back between middle and high school to improve their academic performance against their peers and maximize their chances of getting into a selective school.
Not saying this is what happened with Freedman, but his story looks like the stories of a lot of kids at Ivy League schools, regardless of athletic participation.
Two seniors with a fifth year of eligibility already looking to transfer and play while earning a grad degree (likely to a scholarship situation): Dan Carr from Augustana and Cory Mitchell from IWU. I'm sure they won't be the last!
Reported on the NESCAC board: Wesleyan's Preston Maccoux and Colby's Will King are both looking to transfer and use their last year of eligibility. I'm not sure what level they will end up at, but if either ends up on a D3 program, that would be a big-time addition and potential difference-maker for a really good team.
Maccoux is a very athletic two-way wing who can do a bit of everything (score in the post, shoot the 3, attack off the bounce) and is an excellent defender. He's a good fit on basically any team. Will King is one of the most unusual players to come through NESCAC in some time: he's a 6'5 point guard who is neither quick nor much of an outside shooter (though occasionally he can get hot), but he is an outstanding passer with uncanny court vision and also very crafty off the dribble attacking the basket, very hard to keep out of the lane despite his lack of elite athleticism, and at his size gives a lot of versatility on defense. The D3 equivalent of Kyle Anderson, kind of ...
Quote from: nescac1 on March 02, 2023, 10:01:53 AM
Two seniors with a fifth year of eligibility already looking to transfer and play while earning a grad degree (likely to a scholarship situation): Dan Carr from Augustana and Cory Mitchell from IWU. I'm sure they won't be the last!
Add a third from the CCIW: 6'5" Carthage swingman Fillip Bulatovic, a three-time All-CCIW honoree who scored over 1300 points during his career as a Firebird, is also looking for a school where he can play his Covid year as a grad student.
Full list of guys looking to transfer so far. All have one year of eligibility left other than Pearson, who has two; I believe only Pearson would not be a graduate transfer.
Logan Pearson, Plattesville
Will King, Colby
Preston Maccoux, Wesleyan
Filip Bulatovic, Carthage
Dan Carr, Augusta
Cory Mitchell, IWU
Lucas Heflin, IWU
Very strong group of players who will make an impact wherever they end up. I'm sure more will be added to the list soon ...
So far, top seniors / grad students who are returning for another year to their current program are:
Jeff Hunter, Keene State
Spencer Freedman, NYU
Some top names to watch who still have a year of eligibility and whose intentions are unknown:
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Josh Angle - CMC
Austin Grunder - Cortland
John Lowther - WPI
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Ryan Clement - HSC
Jack Clement - OWU
Collen Gurley - Mount Union (even though it would be his sixth year, he did not play at Youngstown State after transferring and he has a COVID year)
Did anyone move up to D1 last year outside of Sam Peek, Matthew Schner, and Luke Yoder? Trying to track down anyone else but none are coming to mind. I know Yoder struggled but overall I think most of the movers up have been success stories and would imagine that will factor into most D1 staffs calculus in regards towards considering D3 transfers.
Quote from: nescac1 on March 11, 2023, 12:06:34 PM
Full list of guys looking to transfer so far. All have one year of eligibility left other than Pearson, who has two; I believe only Pearson would not be a graduate transfer.
Logan Pearson, Plattesville
Will King, Colby
Preston Maccoux, Wesleyan
Filip Bulatovic, Carthage
Dan Carr, Augusta
Cory Mitchell, IWU
Lucas Heflin, IWU
Very strong group of players who will make an impact wherever they end up. I'm sure more will be added to the list soon ...
The word on Twitter is that UWRF's 6'8" sophomore center Rodrick Payne (16.8 ppg, 6.3 rpg), a first-team All-WIAC selection, is about to step through the portal as well.
Seems like it could be quite a different look for WIAC next year (other than Whitewater, who seems like it will be the overwhelming favorite to repeat as champions). Of the 10-man all-league team, eight are either listed as seniors or looking to transfer up -- and the two remaining players are on Whitewater. Whitewater also has two of the six non-seniors on the Honorable Mention list, one of only two returnees on the all-defensive team, and the newcomer of the year returning.
SpringSt7, I think that's the entire list of D3 to D1 moves last year ...
Quote from: nescac1 on March 11, 2023, 12:55:09 PM
Seems like it could be quite a different look for WIAC next year (other than Whitewater, who seems like it will be the overwhelming favorite to repeat as champions). Of the 10-man all-league team, eight are either listed as seniors or looking to transfer up -- and the two remaining players are on Whitewater. Whitewater also has two of the six non-seniors on the Honorable Mention list, one of only two returnees on the all-defensive team, and the newcomer of the year returning.
SpringSt7, I think that's the entire list of D3 to D1 moves last year ...
I don't think many, if any, consider the tournament champions having the ability to repeat. I think most preseason polls look for the regular season champions. But still, point taken, Whitewater will have heavy preseason regular season favorites.
I think Oshkosh should be firm two with 61/91 points from a Sweet 16 game coming back. Then 3-8 is really a toss up in any order. I think I've heard Voigt's are probably done, but if they come back EC should be up there. If they don't, who knows?
Quote from: nescac1 on March 11, 2023, 12:06:34 PM
Austin Grunder - Cortland
Not sure about him. He was honored at Senior Day. He did not play his first year at Cortland. He is a 2017 HS grad, 23 yrs old - so this would have been his 6th year since HS graduation. I don't think Cortland has any programs beyond a Master's so he would probably need to go someplace else. Colgate, Cornell, and Bighamton are all close by low D-I programs if he does have a year left.
Raheem Anthony looking like the next D3 to D1 guy. Getting a lot of scholarship level interest:
https://twitter.com/theportalreport/status/1636023327214170112?s=46&t=f6sxXDdfYkdSSeU0Te9c9A
Grunder is on the NABC All-Star list, along with fellow seniors with eligibility remaining: Brandon Mora, Miles Mallory, and Dan Gaines. There may be more, I don't know off the top of my head, but my understanding is that participating in this event forfeits future NCAA eligibility, so these guys will presumably NOT be using their final year:
https://nabc.com/nabc_releases/2023/rosters-revealed-for-2023-nabc-reeses-division-iii-college-all-star-game/
NABC – Reese's Division III College All-Star Game – Team Hixon
Steven Breeman, Montclair St.
Daniel Gaines, Muhlenberg
Devin Green, SUNY Oswego St.
Austin Grunder, SUNY Cortland
EJ Day, Lasell
Miles Mallory, Randolph-Macon
Jackson Meshanic, Hobart
Brendan Mora, Pomona-Pitzer
Mitch Prendergast, Case Western Reserve
Kyle Poerschke, UT Dallas
Coach: David Hixon
NABC – Reese's Division III College All-Star Game – Team Vande Streek
Ethan Anderson , UW-La Crosse
Jeremy Beckler, Carleton
Milos Dugalic, Illinois Tech
Isaiah Geathers, Lehman
Isaiah Lewis, North Carolina Wesleyan
Terion Moss, Maine at Farmington
Ty Prince, Mary Hardin-Baylor
Kendall Robinson, Western Connecticut St.
Jordan Shewbridge, Lancaster Bible College
Evan Thomas, Hope
Coach: Kevin Vande Streek
Cole Frilling is considering a return as a PhD student or was considering from what I understand.
Michael Savarino is returning for NYU.
Re: All Star game. So is that an actual NCAA rule? Playing in it means you're done? Someone can't change their mind and return for a graduate year?
With Savarino and Freedman both back NYU will be quite loaded and I assume the UAA favorite next year.
It will be interesting to see what Jahn Hines and Christian Parker do, especially whomever wins the national title tonight. With two years of eligibility left each, might either or both test the D1 waters? They'd be much more appealing as a two-year transfer and I think both of them would garner a ton of D1 interest with their size and athletic ability along with proven ability to lead a D3 team to the mountaintop. Of course Jahn might prefer to stick around and compete for two more national titles alongside his brother ... but something to watch for.
No one is winning the national title tonight. ;D :P
Saw that Ohio Wesleyan's Jack Clement is in the transfer portal.
Quote from: nescac1 on March 17, 2023, 01:11:25 PM
With Savarino and Freedman both back NYU will be quite loaded and I assume the UAA favorite next year.
NYU loses a quality reserve in Nikola Lipovic (10 ppg, 4 rpg) but returns most everyone else, though honestly, I cannot chose a favorite between NYU, Emory and Washington University.
I went through the AA list yesterday, as I usually do, to put together a first draft of preseason AAs for next year. More than half of the players named are four year players with an option to return.
We know a few definitely are, like Josiah Johnson and Spencer Freedman. Others are in the portal and looking for a scholarship, but could possibly be back. Some, like Miles Mallory, played in the AS game and are done. Others, like Levi Borchert, have announced they're finished, but you never really know until school starts next fall.
Plus, you never know what transfers will come in to d3 next year. Fun times!
I do have confirmation that anyone participating in the All Star game forfeits any remaining eligibility.
Forfeiting eligibility everywhere or just for division 3?
I believe D3 only.
Forfeiting all eligibility is how I understand it, which is why all the NABC All-Star Games have just seniors.
Thanks for the clarification, Pat.
Alex Sobel, who I thought was out of eligibility, is apparent in the transfer portal! A few other recent big-time additions to the list as well, including Raheem Anthony and Jack Clement.
All listed players have announced an intent to transfer with one year of eligibility left other than Pearson and Payne, who have two; I believe only Pearson and Payne would not be a graduate transfer. I think there is a very good chance this group sets the record for most D3 transfers earning D1 scholarships in one year, quite a few big-time players on this list. And they will certainly make an impact at whatever level they end up at.
Logan Pearson - Plattesville
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's
Jack Clement - OWU
Alex Sobel - Middlebury
Will King - Colby
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Dan Carr - Augusta
Cory Mitchell - IWU
Lucas Heflin - IWU
Rodrick Payne - River Falls
So far, top seniors / grad students who are reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program are:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Top players with eligibility left who are reportedly done with college hoops:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Austin Grunder - Cortland
Miles Mallory - RMC
A few remaining top names to watch who still have a year of eligibility and whose intentions are unknown:
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts
Josh Talbert - RMC
Josh Angle - CMC
John Lowther - WPI
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Collen Gurley - Mount Union (even though it would be his sixth year, he did not play at Youngstown State after transferring and he has a COVID year)
Grunder and Mallory are done. They have no remaining eligibility.
Mora changed his mind about the AS game and is in the portal.
Josiah Johnson is planning to be back, that's confirmed.
[Edited to add Brock Voigt to the transfer list and remove Grunder from list of eligible players ... tough off-season for WIAC with Voigt, Pearson, and Payne transferring and Borchert reportedly not returning]
Thanks Ryan. By eligibility I meant that Grunder and Mallory could have played another year, I understand that by playing in the all-star game, they forfeited that, but I kept them on the list as guys who did have one more year if they had chosen to use it. Interesting news about Mora, he will be another hot commodity on the transfer market. So, that makes the list as follows:
In the portal ... I have to think Raheem Anthony and Alex Sobel will be hot commodities in D1. Mora, Pearson, Payne, and Carr seem like legit contenders for a D1 spot as well. Maybe someone else from the list will snag a D1 spot as well ... at a minimum all will get a ton of D2/D3 level interest.
Logan Pearson - Plattesville
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Jack Clement - OWU
Alex Sobel - Middlebury
Will King - Colby
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Dan Carr - Augusta
Cory Mitchell - IWU
Lucas Heflin - IWU
Rodrick Payne - River Falls
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program are:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Intentions unknown:
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
Josh Angle - CMC
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Collen Gurley - Mount Union (even though it would be his sixth year, he did not play at Youngstown State after transferring and he has a COVID year)
I'd actually expect Sobel to be either at a d3 or not playing ball. I'm pretty sure he only has one semester left and he's a computer science guy, so unless he's gettinga random MBA, it's unlikely the school and team will matchup easily.
Ahh, I was wondering how Sobel was going to swing a fifth year. One semester left makes sense. Yeah, I imagine that would limit his options quite a bit. It will be interesting to see where he lands. If some D3 school can add him for a semester, obviously he is beyond a game-changing talent ...
Quote from: nescac1 on March 30, 2023, 12:03:37 PM
Ahh, I was wondering how Sobel was going to swing a fifth year. One semester left makes sense. Yeah, I imagine that would limit his options quite a bit. It will be interesting to see where he lands. If some D3 school can add him for a semester, obviously he is beyond a game-changing talent ...
Sobel left school before Spring 2020, I believe, so he has that semester available to use and, because of COVID, one more year left to do it. In d3 world, one semester is a whole UAA conference season, for example, which is why I imagine CMU might be putting on the hard sell - that seems like a great match for both academics and athletics, but obviously, he'll likely have a lot of options.
If you added Sobel for the stretch run to NYU, with all the veteran talent they have returning on the perimeter including boatloads of outside shooting, that's instantly the best team in the country. He'd be the absolute perfect fit there ...
Would Grunder even have any eligibility left? He enrolled in school for 2 years before he started playing, even with the covid year one would think he'd exhausted his eligibility. He's said he wants to coach so I would have thought he would have kept playing as long as he could to leverage it into the best coaching job possible upon graduation.
Quote from: stlawus on March 30, 2023, 08:24:43 PM
Would Grunder even have any eligibility left? He enrolled in school for 2 years before he started playing, even with the covid year one would think he'd exhausted his eligibility. He's said he wants to coach so I would have thought he would have kept playing as long as he could to leverage it into the best coaching job possible upon graduation.
We were told in Ft Wayne, by his coach, that he had no eligibility left. I've never gone back to check.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 31, 2023, 07:35:08 AM
Quote from: stlawus on March 30, 2023, 08:24:43 PM
Would Grunder even have any eligibility left? He enrolled in school for 2 years before he started playing, even with the covid year one would think he'd exhausted his eligibility. He's said he wants to coach so I would have thought he would have kept playing as long as he could to leverage it into the best coaching job possible upon graduation.
We were told in Ft Wayne, by his coach, that he had no eligibility left. I've never gone back to check.
I'm under the impression that the eligibility clock doesn't start until one plays the initial semester, not when one enrolls
Quote from: ronk on March 31, 2023, 08:06:45 AM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 31, 2023, 07:35:08 AM
Quote from: stlawus on March 30, 2023, 08:24:43 PM
Would Grunder even have any eligibility left? He enrolled in school for 2 years before he started playing, even with the covid year one would think he'd exhausted his eligibility. He's said he wants to coach so I would have thought he would have kept playing as long as he could to leverage it into the best coaching job possible upon graduation.
We were told in Ft Wayne, by his coach, that he had no eligibility left. I've never gone back to check.
I'm under the impression that the eligibility clock doesn't start until one plays the initial semester, not when one enrolls
If you're an enrolled, full time student, the five (six, in COVID) year clock starts. You have five (currently six) years of college to play eight (possibly 10, right now) semesters.
If you don't play your first year of college, you then have four years to play four.
Quote from: ronk on March 31, 2023, 08:06:45 AM
I'm under the impression that the eligibility clock doesn't start until one plays the initial semester, not when one enrolls
from the NCAA site: Your five-year clock starts when you enroll as a full-time student at any college. Thereafter, your clock continues, even if you spend an academic year in residence as a result of transferring; decide to redshirt, if you do not attend school or even if you go part time during your college career.
Quote from: nescac1 on March 30, 2023, 12:03:37 PM
Ahh, I was wondering how Sobel was going to swing a fifth year. One semester left makes sense. Yeah, I imagine that would limit his options quite a bit. It will be interesting to see where he lands. If some D3 school can add him for a semester, obviously he is beyond a game-changing talent ...
Every UAA school has graduate-level computer engineering and science options, though the reportage has his considering three Division I schools before heading overseas.
https://tbrnewsmedia.com/old-field-resident-scores-big-during-college-basketball-career/
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 30, 2023, 03:34:28 PM
Quote from: nescac1 on March 30, 2023, 12:03:37 PM
Ahh, I was wondering how Sobel was going to swing a fifth year. One semester left makes sense. Yeah, I imagine that would limit his options quite a bit. It will be interesting to see where he lands. If some D3 school can add him for a semester, obviously he is beyond a game-changing talent ...
Sobel left school before Spring 2020, I believe, so he has that semester available to use and, because of COVID, one more year left to do it. In d3 world, one semester is a whole UAA conference season, for example, which is why I imagine CMU might be putting on the hard sell - that seems like a great match for both academics and athletics, but obviously, he'll likely have a lot of options.
Alex has DI interest and is exploring those options. He has mentioned Stony Brook, Fairfield, and Sacred Heart as potential landing spots. And I don't know this for sure, but he may have a full year of eligibility, rather than a semester, if he applied for and received a medical hardship.
Quote from: Bucket on April 06, 2023, 03:24:30 PM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 30, 2023, 03:34:28 PM
Quote from: nescac1 on March 30, 2023, 12:03:37 PM
Ahh, I was wondering how Sobel was going to swing a fifth year. One semester left makes sense. Yeah, I imagine that would limit his options quite a bit. It will be interesting to see where he lands. If some D3 school can add him for a semester, obviously he is beyond a game-changing talent ...
Sobel left school before Spring 2020, I believe, so he has that semester available to use and, because of COVID, one more year left to do it. In d3 world, one semester is a whole UAA conference season, for example, which is why I imagine CMU might be putting on the hard sell - that seems like a great match for both academics and athletics, but obviously, he'll likely have a lot of options.
Alex has DI interest and is exploring those options. He has mentioned Stony Brook, Fairfield, and Sacred Heart as potential landing spots. And I don't know this for sure, but he may have a full year of eligibility, rather than a semester, if he applied for and received a medical hardship.
I'm not aware of a medical redshirt being granted for players who played more than 7 games in a season. Alex played 11 in 2019-20. I'd love to be wrong. The more games he gets to play, the better.
What do you think of the chances of any players getting a waiver to get another season at Concordia - Chicago after the fiasco there? I remember an article mentioning the possibility of asking the NCAA for a waiver. Not sure if any seniors were planning on doing that.
Quote from: Bucket on April 06, 2023, 03:24:30 PM
Alex has DI interest and is exploring those options. He has mentioned Stony Brook, Fairfield, and Sacred Heart as potential landing spots.
Out of curiosity, did you hear this from Alex Sobel or did you read the article I posted above?
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on April 06, 2023, 10:56:52 PM
What do you think of the chances of any players getting a waiver to get another season at Concordia - Chicago after the fiasco there? I remember an article mentioning the possibility of asking the NCAA for a waiver. Not sure if any seniors were planning on doing that.
If they hadn't played that Concordia tournament, I imagine they could've gotten a semester back, but it's unlikely, in my opinion, since they played. I'm not sure which guys ended up hurt, but if they played under the amount of games allowed for a medical (I forget the exact number, 7 or 8, I think) they might be able to apply. They're not going to give a blanket exemption, though, for the team.
Skidmore's all-region guard Tautvydas Kupstas is looking for a graduate transfer opportunity.
Quote from: nescac1 on April 07, 2023, 06:45:05 PM
Skidmore's all-region guard Tautvydas Kupstas is looking for a graduate transfer opportunity.
I thought that would happen. I know he has pro aspirations. I'd assume a NE mid-major or d2 will look at him.
How about Skidmore's senior point guard Riley Greene? Outstanding point guard who I am pretty sure has a year of eligibility left. Any word on his plans?
Two updates: Elmhurst's Wesley Hooker has entered the portal. River Falls' Rodrick Payne has removed his name and is apparently staying put.
Curious if we should combine Seniors with Eligibility and Transfers into the same board...or rename? Rodrick Payne isn't a senior, for example. Both boards basically talk about the transfer portal.
Agree that if possible to change the topic title it should be Transfers / Seniors with Remaining Eligibility. The goal is to have one place to share info about player movement (potential and actual) or players staying on extra years in this weird COVID era, which will last (basically, with very few outliers) one more off-season after this one ...
Updated list ....
Announced transfer destination:
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
In the transfer portal:
Logan Pearson - Plattesville
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Jack Clement - OWU
Alex Sobel - Middlebury
Will King - Colby
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Dan Carr - Augusta
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair
Josh Angle - CMC
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program are:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Intentions unknown:
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Collen Gurley - Mount Union (even though it would be his sixth year, he did not play at Youngstown State after transferring and he has a COVID year)
Checking out the initial rosters and all-star game boxscore, I noticed two names that didn't play. Brendan Mora is already in the transfer portal, as noted. The other name, Devin Green, also did not play. Of course, we can speculate. There could be a number of reasons why he didn't participate in the game.
Devin Green from Oswego was a JUCO transfer.
Played 18-19 at Finger Lakes, 19-20 at Genesee, 21-22 and 22-23 at Oswego.
He appears to have 1 semester of eligibility as he only played the Jan - Mar [Spring Semester] portion of 2019-20.
What's unknown is what stops he made between 2016 when he graduated HS and Fall of 2018.
We were told Devin Green was ill and did not make the trip, but that doesn't mean that was his real reason for not playing.
Quote from: nescac1 on April 11, 2023, 02:04:03 PM
Updated list ....
Announced transfer destination:
Cody Mitchell - IWU to D2 Roosevelt University
This isn't quite correct. Roosevelt has applied to join D2, and if accepted (that acceptance would come in July) would be a provisional D2 member next school year. That means that the Lakers will still compete in the NAIA and in their current NAIA league (the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference), which means that, unless Mitchell defers enrollment for a year, he will actually be playing as an NAIA player next year against NAIA teams rather than as a D2 player competing against D2 teams in the GLIAC. (https://www.gliac.org/general_news/2021-22/Roosevelt)
Gotcha Greg. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and change to D2 / NAIA :).
Logan Pearson tweeted an hour ago that he's staying put at UW-Platteville.
Some more updates to the list, including adding a category for incoming transfers to D3:
Announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
In the transfer portal:
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Jack Clement - OWU
Alex Sobel - Middlebury
Will King - Colby
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Dan Carr - Augusta
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair
Josh Angle - CMC
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program are:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Intentions unknown:
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Collen Gurley - Mount Union (even though it would be his sixth year, he did not play at Youngstown State after transferring and he has a COVID year)
Raheem Anthony has just committed to St. Thomas (MN), so the Chicago native will be staying in the Land of 10,000 Lakes to complete his collegiate career on the D1 level.
Very cool for Anthony! Coaches Tauer and Maker certainly appreciate the talent in Division 3 hoops and know how to maximize all of their players. I imagine Anthony will be an important player for St. Thomas, whose top player, also a scoring guard, just transferred to UVA.
Tweeter has Maccoux going to CWRU
https://twitter.com/stevenD3Hoops/status/1650193210789036032?t=Zkegbl5-0nkFsT4yL3kL5Q&s=19
Dan Carr is headed to Rockhurst in the no longer appropriately name Great Lakes Valley Conference.
(Most recent updates in bold)
D3 players who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Jack Clement - OWU to John Carroll
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to CWRU
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 (walk-on) FDU to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
In the transfer portal:
Trey Barber - CNU
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Alex Sobel - Middlebury
Will King - Colby
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Intentions unknown:
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Collen Gurley - Mount Union (even though it would be his sixth year, he did not play at Youngstown State after transferring and he has a COVID year)
So, great work. Can you bold the update next time you edit the list, just so we have an idea of what was added/changed? Thanks.
Thanks - will do!
Quote from: nescac1 on April 27, 2023, 02:59:08 PM
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 (walk-on) FDU to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North ParkBrooks just tweeted his decision this morning.
Sewanee's Colin Kahl transferring to CWRU
https://twitter.com/colinkahl1/status/1654548919559282688?t=-DV0OpixgShNSz8d87MjLQ&s=19
Quote from: nescac1 on April 27, 2023, 02:59:08 PM
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 (walk-on) FDU to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois WesleyanYoder will be using his Covid option. He spent three seasons with Illinois Wesleyan prior to transferring to NDSU last year, and was an All-CCIW second-teamer in 2021-22.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on May 09, 2023, 04:55:45 PM
Quote from: nescac1 on April 27, 2023, 02:59:08 PM
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 (walk-on) FDU to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Yoder will be using his Covid option. He spent three seasons with Illinois Wesleyan prior to transferring to NDSU last year, and was an All-CCIW second-teamer in 2021-22.
Wow. Interesting. That probably puts IWU ahead of NPU now. ::)
Just when I think I understand the ins and outs of the Covid year (which I still clearly do not) something like this comes along. I thought the student-athlete needed to be academically eligible as well (i.e. either not having yet completed his undergrad degree or now enrolled in a graduate program). In Yoder's case did he not get his undergrad degree at NDSU? Hasn't he been a student for 4 years across 2 institutions? Does IWU have a grad program of which I'm unaware?
I'm so confused, and I guess I've got 2 more years of confusion ahead.
Quote from: BaboNation on May 10, 2023, 08:08:44 AM
Just when I think I understand the ins and outs of the Covid year (which I still clearly do not) something like this comes along. I thought the student-athlete needed to be academically eligible as well (i.e. either not having yet completed his undergrad degree or now enrolled in a graduate program). In Yoder's case did he not get his undergrad degree at NDSU? Hasn't he been a student for 4 years across 2 institutions? Does IWU have a grad program of which I'm unaware?
I'm so confused, and I guess I've got 2 more years of confusion ahead.
You're conflating two things. There used to be a "grad transfer" rule that allowed grad students to change schools for a degree program without sitting out the year (in d1). D1 has almost fully done away with the ineligible year anyway. For transfers coming to d3, there have never been regulations, so long as they have eligibility left.
A particular conference might have additional restrictions, but all the covid waiver did was essentially make 2020-21 a free redshirt for anyone who played.
(Most recent updates in bold - also, removed Barber and Bulatovic as both are reportedly no longer in the portal)
D3 players who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart (pending NCAA approval of waiver)
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (awaiting confirmation on this report)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Jack Clement - OWU to John Carroll
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to CWRU
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 (walk-on) FDU to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin Stevens-Point
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Intentions unknown:
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Collen Gurley - Mount Union (even though it would be his sixth year, he did not play at Youngstown State after transferring and he has a COVID year)
Thoerner going D1
https://twitter.com/stevenD3Hoops/status/1656123508940763136?t=ocGbBNCuzQlRkeSsqW5dbw&s=19
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Quote from: Gregory Sager on May 09, 2023, 04:55:45 PM
Quote from: nescac1 on April 27, 2023, 02:59:08 PM
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 (walk-on) FDU to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Yoder will be using his Covid option. He spent three seasons with Illinois Wesleyan prior to transferring to NDSU last year, and was an All-CCIW second-teamer in 2021-22.
Wow. Interesting. That probably puts IWU ahead of NPU now. ::)
Well, of course it does. I mean, they're IWU, so obviously they're halfway to winning the natty every year just by putting on those green-and-white uniforms, right? ;)
Quote from: BaboNation on May 10, 2023, 08:08:44 AM
Just when I think I understand the ins and outs of the Covid year (which I still clearly do not) something like this comes along. I thought the student-athlete needed to be academically eligible as well (i.e. either not having yet completed his undergrad degree or now enrolled in a graduate program). In Yoder's case did he not get his undergrad degree at NDSU?
According to the story in the Bloomington newspaper, apparently not.
Quote from: BaboNation on May 10, 2023, 08:08:44 AMHasn't he been a student for 4 years across 2 institutions?
That may be open to question. Once darkness covered the land in March 2020, academic status went up in the air along with everything else in society. Did this class shift to online? Was that class unable to shift online? Did the school offer students the opportunity to retroactively opt out of that spring semester? Did it refuse to do so? What about schools that are on trimesters or quarters rather than a strict semester system? So many questions. One of the reasons why the NCAA granted the Covid waiver in the first place was because every student-athlete was trying to wend his or her way through the academic minefield that Covid set down in his or her path.
In other words, yeah, Yoder's been a student for four years across two institutions. But does he have the credits to graduate in his major yet? Even if he's an excellent student and a diligent planner, only he and his academic advisor, and (probably) his parents, really know what his credit-hour status is. Plus, there's always the chance that he cut back on his hours at NDSU by dropping classes after he broke his foot last January, in order to set himself up for full-time status for a fifth year.
I'm reasonably sure that Yoder planned ahead and thought this through well. IWU is an extremely expensive school, and thus it's typically not a place where student-athletes take an unnecessary fifth year of classes just to use up remaining eligibility.
Quote from: BaboNation on May 10, 2023, 08:08:44 AMDoes IWU have a grad program of which I'm unaware?
No, it doesn't. Illinois Wesleyan has no grad programs whatsoever, which is why we non-IWU CCIW types take great pleasure in razzing the Green Weenies about how their school calls itself a university despite the fact that it's only for undergraduates.
Quote from: BaboNation on May 10, 2023, 08:08:44 AM
I'm so confused, and I guess I've got 2 more years of confusion ahead.
Well, part of the confusion no doubt lies in the fact that every school, and indeed every student-athlete, is different in terms of Covid eligibility and the specific decisions made thereof.
@Gregory Sager Thanks for all that!
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Dan Cook was listed as a senior last year, but wasn't on the list above. He's returning to SJFC for his last year of eligibility.
https://twitter.com/SJFMBB/status/1656383343775166465?s=20
Not D3, but Seth Towns will be playing basketball, ahead of his 8th college hoops season. He'll be 26.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37658087/seth-towns-enters-transfer-portal-ahead-8th-college-basketball-season
16-17: Harvard
17-18: Harvard
18-19: injured
19-20: injured
20-21: Ohio St
21:22: injury
22-23: sat out
23-24: transfer portal
Could have 2 years of eligibility left.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on May 16, 2023, 09:40:41 AM
Not D3, but Seth Towns will be playing basketball, ahead of his 8th college hoops season. He'll be 26.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37658087/seth-towns-enters-transfer-portal-ahead-8th-college-basketball-season
16-17: Harvard
17-18: Harvard
18-19: injured
19-20: injured
20-21: Ohio St
21:22: injury
22-23: sat out
23-24: transfer portal
Could have 2 years of eligibility left.
I still think Jordan Lester's run is more impressive since he saw the floor in six or seven separate seasons.
I guess Rodrick Payne stayed in portal after all - committed to D1 Western Illinois!
D3 players who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (awaiting confirmation on this report)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Jack Clement - OWU to John Carroll (may be reconsidering)
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to CWRU
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 (walk-on) FDU to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin Stevens-Point
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Intentions unknown:
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year - not listed as graduating so I suspect returning)
Lowther was not listed in WPI's commencement program. So, without having any inside information I'm guessing he's returning.
Lowther returning would obviously be a game-changer for WPI, since in that case they'd have essentially their entire rotation back. I guess we will have to stay tuned!
On another note, next year will be the last season in which a significant number of players will be listed as seniors but have a potential additional COVID year to play (at their current program, or as a transfer) in the 24-25 season. Here is a list of high-profile players who I believe will qualify (no doubt I'm missing some as well). Christian Parker and Jahn Hines are, obviously, the biggest names on their list, but a lot of these guys are real dudes who could make be difference-makers if they choose to use their extra year of eligiblity:
Christian Parker - Mount Union
Jahn Hines - CNU
David Murray - Conn College
Ja'Zere Noel - Rowan
Ben Callahan Gold - Trinity (CT)
Jeremiah Sparks - Oswego
John Adams - WPI
DJ Campbell - Richard Stockton
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic
Jalen Vaughns - Neumann
Davidson Hubbard - HSC
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran
Cody Baer - Eureka
Joshua Van Gorp - Central
Caleb Williams - Macalaster
Darry Moore - ETBU
Daniel Mbangue - RMC
Tim Restall - WNE
Logan Pearson - Platteville
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC
Jack Boyle - UT-Dallas
Collen Gurley coming back to Mount Union
Quote from: D3fanboy on May 18, 2023, 02:16:36 PM
Collen Gurley coming back to Mount Union
https://twitter.com/CollenGurley2/status/1659256029325008907?s=20
Heard rumors that Clement was rethinking his JCU commitment. He's now deleted the announcement tweet.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on May 19, 2023, 09:56:05 AM
Heard rumors that Clement was rethinking his JCU commitment. He's now deleted the announcement tweet.
I wonder if he'd like a spot a little further south
Quote from: nescac1 on May 17, 2023, 07:26:56 AM
Intentions unknown:
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
Putting to rest any speculation that Talbert might return.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs4PlyTJPd7/
Quote from: y_jack_lok on May 31, 2023, 02:41:58 PM
Quote from: nescac1 on May 17, 2023, 07:26:56 AM
Intentions unknown:
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
Putting to rest any speculation that Talbert might return.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs4PlyTJPd7/
RMC does have graduate programs.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on June 02, 2023, 07:31:02 AM
Quote from: y_jack_lok on May 31, 2023, 02:41:58 PM
Quote from: nescac1 on May 17, 2023, 07:26:56 AM
Intentions unknown:
Josh Talbert - RMC (seems like not returning to RMC, at least)
Putting to rest any speculation that Talbert might return.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs4PlyTJPd7/
RMC does have graduate programs.
At the moment it's a single graduate program in Physician Assistant Studies. https://www.rmc.edu/academics
But, yes, that would be a possibility, though I doubt Talbert is enrolling in it.
Latest updates:
D3 players who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (awaiting confirmation on this report)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Jack Clement - OWU to John Carroll (may be reconsidering)
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to CWRU
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin Stevens-Point
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Bryce Hopkins - UChicago
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Intentions unknown:
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year - not listed as graduating so I suspect returning)
UChicago Tweeted that Bryce Hopkins will be returning for a fifth year. The Maroons will not be a tournament team, but if Hopkins remains healthy, the Maroons should do better than the 10-15 record they finished with over the past two seasons.
Titan Q confirms Filip Bulatovic is returning to Carthage.
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1666133374208028673?t=gIbVzJfhFLHNhJ4PilNJ2Q&s=19
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 06, 2023, 07:33:12 PM
Titan Q confirms Filip Bulatovic is returning to Carthage.
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1666133374208028673?t=gIbVzJfhFLHNhJ4PilNJ2Q&s=19
Old news. That was reported weeks ago.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on June 07, 2023, 11:32:54 AM
Old news. That was reported weeks ago.
I always assume that "word on the street" is akin to highly likely and I remember reading your last mention of Bulatovic and thinking well maybe he is keeping his options open.
I thought for sure Bulatovic would follow Daniel Carr to Division II, but nope.
Carthage doesn't have a huge menu of grad programs, but of the five it does have, three of them -- Education, Business Design & Innovation, and Sports Management -- fit right into the academic wheelhouse of a huge proportion of jocks. That's why I always figured that there was a strong possibility that Bulatovic would be back. The other reason is Carthage's potential for next season, as compared to what it's done in the past. Bulatovic is well aware of how well-positioned the Firebirds are for 2023-24, given that the only other two seniors they had besides Bulatovic himself were little-used Luke Barach and Lukas Rekasius. Everybody else comes back from an 18-9, 9-7 team that made the CCIW tourney semis this past February. Last season was the only winning season in CCIW play that Carthage has experienced during Bulatovic's time there, and that combination of factors looks like a recipe for coming back for a fifth season if the guy still has the hunger to play and to win -- which Bulatovic clearly does.
All good points.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on June 07, 2023, 11:32:54 AM
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 06, 2023, 07:33:12 PM
Titan Q confirms Filip Bulatovic is returning to Carthage.
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1666133374208028673?t=gIbVzJfhFLHNhJ4PilNJ2Q&s=19
Old news. That was reported weeks ago.
Posting "I heard...," "Sources tell me..." and the like aren't really confirmations, in my opinion. So, when I post an actual confirmation, then it's new news, not old news. Nowadays, confirmations on social media aren't even confirmations. Jack Clement posted on Twitter he was committing to John Carroll and then deleted his post. So, lighten up a little.
Did you tell Bob Quillman, who tweeted the "confirmation" that it was old news and that was reported weeks ago too?
Elijah Williams - 6'6" Fwd from Gettysburg heading to D1 Howard U for his final season of eligibility. Appears to be joining his brother who is already at Howard.
https://twitter.com/ayoooelijah/status/1657552539821170688
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 07, 2023, 02:52:00 PM
Quote from: Gregory Sager on June 07, 2023, 11:32:54 AM
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 06, 2023, 07:33:12 PM
Titan Q confirms Filip Bulatovic is returning to Carthage.
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1666133374208028673?t=gIbVzJfhFLHNhJ4PilNJ2Q&s=19
Old news. That was reported weeks ago.
Posting "I heard...," "Sources tell me..." and the like aren't really confirmations, in my opinion. So, when I post an actual confirmation, then it's new news, not old news. Nowadays, confirmations on social media aren't even confirmations. Jack Clement posted on Twitter he was committing to John Carroll and then deleted his post. So, lighten up a little.
Um, right back atcha. You didn't post an "actual confirmation," either. You posted a tweet from Bob that contained no attribution whatsoever -- no link, no quoted source. As you yourself said, "confirmations on social media aren't even confirmations." That goes for Bob just as much as it does for everybody else.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 07, 2023, 02:52:00 PM
Did you tell Bob Quillman, who tweeted the "confirmation" that it was old news and that was reported weeks ago too?
Nope. Given the venue, I didn't see the need to do so.
For the record, I was told nearly a month ago by a member of a CCIW men's basketball coaching staff that Bulatovic was returning to Carthage. I've since encountered other CCIW men's basketball people who knew it and have discussed it with me. That's why I said "word on the street" when I disclosed it on CCIW Chat on May 10 -- it was open public knowledge, albeit not officially confirmed by a Carthage press release or a social-media post from Bulatovic himself, and I was not asked to keep it confidential. And, as I posted here this morning, Bulatovic's return to Kenosha made perfect sense to me when I was told this news, given his situation and Carthage's grad program offerings (which I learned in late April were more extensive than I'd originally thought).
Honestly, I got tired quite awhile ago of playing the "scoop" game. This isn't professional journalism operating on deadlines, with subscriptions, advertising money, etc., riding on who gets the word out first. That's more in line with what Pat Coleman and Dave McHugh, who have actual professional journalistic outlets that cover D3 men's basketball, do. The rest of us are nothing more than amateur sleuths. I understand the ego gratification involved in beating everyone else to breaking D3 sports news, but over the past several years it's dawned on me that it's kind of a petty and tiresome means to achieve a sense of public affirmation. It definitely lends itself to misuse -- I'm not talking about Bob here, but for an axe-grinder like Mark A. (AndOne/NextManUp) or an obnoxious troll such as the banned and unlamented poster who called himself itsnotmeitsyou, it can lead to invading privacy, getting out over your skis in terms of the reliability of your source, and crossing boundaries that shouldn't be crossed. And there's also the matter of how sleuths are perceived by the coaches and players of D3 men's basketball teams. No matter how affable and helpful coaches and players may be when approached, if you were to really hear what goes on behind the closed doors of locker rooms and coaches' offices, you'd see a lot of eye-rolling and hear a "he thinks he knows everything, but he has no idea at all" tenor of conversation when the subject is sleuths who aren't an actual part of the program. Illinois College head coach Steve Schweer stated it perfectly: "
Anybody can buy a polo."
Honestly, if some Carthage poster such as mwunder or Kenosha Mark had beaten me to the punch last month and posted first on CCIW Chat that Bulatovic was coming back, it wouldn't have bothered me in the slightest. In fact, I would've preferred that, because: a) it's
their team involved, not mine; and b) it would've made for livelier discussion on the board. Same deal with the comings and goings of the Elmhurst trio of Johnson and Zapinski (coming) and Hooker (going). The reason why I replied to you that Bob's tweet was old news was because it was
really old news (nearly a month old, in fact), and because Bob hadn't actually confirmed anything.
No decision is really final until at least the add/drop date - and probably only when games start and they show up in uniform. We do the best we can with people's stated intentions.
Yep. I get the sense that that's even more pertinent now than is usually the case.
Latest updates:
D3 players who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (awaiting confirmation on this report)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Jack Clement - OWU to John Carroll (tweet deleted so apparently reconsidering)
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to CWRU
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin Stevens-Point
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Whitewater
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Bryce Hopkins - UChicago
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Intentions unknown:
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year - not listed as graduating so I suspect returning)
That is one heck of a haul for Case Western Reserve. If the chemistry turns out to be right, CWRU may have moved into national contention with those three additions.
Those are some huge additions, but mind you, they lose Frilling, Frauenheim and Prendergast.
The extra year was good in theory and I know there's only two more years of it but it's greatly devalued the equity of division III. Schools with extensive grad programs have a major advantage over everyone else.
Quote from: stlawus on June 15, 2023, 09:46:09 PM
The extra year was good in theory and I know there's only two more years of it but it's greatly devalued the equity of division III. Schools with extensive grad programs have a major advantage over everyone else.
*A few schools with extensive grad programs.
No, any school with extensive grad programs.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 15, 2023, 09:37:35 PM
Those are some huge additions, but mind you, they lose Frilling, Frauenheim and Prendergast.
6"8 Hunter Drenth a key reserve as a SO in 21-22 who DNP in 22-23 [edit] plans to return as well.
Hunter Drenth is returning.
Quote from: stlawus on June 16, 2023, 01:00:42 AM
No, any school with extensive grad programs.
I might agree that schools with extensive graduate programs have a potential advantage, but I am not sure if that is how it has played out. I would have to do more research to know, but most fifth year guys are either pursuing a fifth year of undergraduate coursework or graduate program in Business or Finance. The latter are offered (or could be offered) by the St. Lawrence's of the world. And for every Case Western Reserve, there is more than one Nichols or Wheaton (IL) or Central (IA) or UW-Lacrosse with fifth year guys.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status/1669542612280414208?t=1a4xmltL2TnqdAPVtQof5g&s=19
Xzavier Lino from Whitman transferring to UMass Lowell.
Quote from: ADL70 on June 16, 2023, 08:08:37 AM
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 15, 2023, 09:37:35 PM
Those are some huge additions, but mind you, they lose Frilling, Frauenheim and Prendergast.
6"8 Hunter Drenth a key reserve as a SO in 21-22 who DNP in 22-23 [edit] plans to return as well.
And 6'7" center Colin Kahl from Sewanee, who averaged 16.6 and 6.2 for the Tigers last season, is also going to CWRU as a grad student ... so there's another one for nescac1's list.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on June 16, 2023, 06:37:01 PM
Quote from: ADL70 on June 16, 2023, 08:08:37 AM
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 15, 2023, 09:37:35 PM
Those are some huge additions, but mind you, they lose Frilling, Frauenheim and Prendergast.
6"8 Hunter Drenth a key reserve as a SO in 21-22 who DNP in 22-23 [edit] plans to return as well.
And 6'7" center Colin Kahl from Sewanee, who averaged 16.6 and 6.2 for the Tigers last season, is also going to CWRU as a grad student ... so there's another one for nescac1's list.
He's already on it. ;D
Yeah, I just spotted it. He used the initials "CWRU" for him, rather than spelling out "Case Western" as he did for the others.
(The school prefers people to call it Case Western Reserve. It was formed by a merger of two schools, Case Tech and Western Reserve U., so you're short-changing the second school of origin if you just use the "Western" part.)
CWRU isn't leaving the Case out. To the contrary, it's probably more common for people to leave "Western" part out, simply calling it "Case".
There are a lot of people who call it "Case Western", as nescac1 did. I know a prof who is a CWRU grad, and calling his alma mater "Case Western" drives him nuts. :D
It's natural to shorten names, so if you give your newly-merged school a name that long you're just begging for it.
I dislike shortening schools to initials (for example from the list UMW or CMC) because it's too generic and it's hard enough to remember 400+ school names then figure out are they college or university and try to solve the riddle of who it is.
If things had worked out differently, the University might have been known as the Case Western Reserve Flora Stone Mather Adelbert Cleveland University or CWRFSMACU.
The only officially approved designations (as I'm reminded anytime I interact with the sports information dept) are "CWRU or Case Western Reserve - never Case Western."
Quote from: WUPHF on June 17, 2023, 01:01:51 PM
If things had worked out differently, the University might have been known as the Case Western Reserve Flora Stone Mather Adelbert Cleveland University or CWRFSMACU.
In that case (no pun intended), they could've gone the MSOE route and just turned the abbreviation into an acronym by referring to the school as "koofersmacoo" ... which actually sounds kind of cool.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 16, 2023, 07:20:14 PM
CWRU isn't leaving the Case out. To the contrary, it's probably more common for people to leave "Western" part out, simply calling it "Case".
I just now realized what you meant by that. No, again, I wasn't saying that people leave out the "Case" -- I was saying that they leave out the "Reserve", as nescac1 did, by calling it "Case Western".
Just bumping forward
Latest updates:
D3 players who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (awaiting confirmation on this report)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Jack Clement - OWU to John Carroll (tweet deleted so apparently reconsidering)
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to CWRU
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin Stevens-Point
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Whitewater
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Bryce Hopkins - UChicago
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Intentions unknown:
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year - not listed as graduating so I suspect returning)
The website Verbal Commits is reporting that 6'0" guard Dom Mello is transferring from D1 Sacred Heart to Nichols. Mello, who scored 23 points in 17 appearances last season for SHU -- none after January 26 -- has three remaining seasons of eligibility.
Latest updates:
D3 players who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Jack Clement - OWU to John Carroll (tweet deleted so apparently reconsidering)
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin Stevens-Point
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Whitewater
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Bryce Hopkins - UChicago
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Intentions unknown:
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Carson James - Johns Hopkins
Thybulle's social media says he's returning
Thanks stlawus, I'll adjust the post. If he and James are both coming back, notwithstanding the coaching uncertainty, Hopkins could be very good again next year. O'Neil looks like a very solid grad transfer (his younger brothers had plenty of success at Bowdoin and Hopkins and he was the most acclaimed of the three as a prep player), so those three plus Windley would make for a very strong core.
More generally, NYU, Hopkins, Case Western, Nichols and John Carroll have all benefited significantly from big-time transfers (mostly, but not all, grad transfers) over the past few years. Those coaches (well, in Hopkins' case, the departing coach) have really figured out how to benefit from this four-year window of hoards of impact transfers to choose from. It's at the point where it's becoming very difficult to compete at the highest levels of D3 without significant impact from transfer players. I doubt that will be the case after next year, but for at least this year and next year, that is likely to be true. By my estimation, 7 of last year's Elite 8 (Swarthmore being the outlier), and I think 13 of last year's Sweet 16, had at least one major impact transfer, often more than one, in their rotations.
If you look at the projected top teams next year, a clear majority of them, including CNU, Keene State, John Carroll, Case Western, Nichols, Whitewater, North Park, NYU, and Oswego, will feature at least one impact player who transferred into the program, often more, in their top 7 guys, and that's only the ones we actually know about so far (surely there are others coming in).
6'2, 180 guard Mikey Robinson is transferring from D2 San Francisco State clear across the country to Rowan. Unlike most of the scholarship-level players in nescac1's list, Robinson was actually a part of the rotation in his old program. He didn't play last season, but in 2021-22 he got into 21 games for the Gators, averaging over 12 minutes per game and posting 3.4 ppg and 1.6 rpg.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 23, 2023, 03:56:03 PM
O'Neil looks like a very solid grad transfer (his younger brothers had plenty of success at Bowdoin and Hopkins and he was the most acclaimed of the three as a prep player)
Struggling with this one a touch - O'Neil has played a whopping 50 minutes in 4 years at Harvard during their worst 3 stretch since Amaker took over.
True re O'Neil, but he was highly ranked as a high school player and Harvard still has pretty talented guys overall; hard to say why he didn't get more time. Spencer Freedman scored only 82 points in only 321 total minutes during his time at Harvard and he worked out OK ... it's just hard to project these D1 guys who play limited minutes as very few who play big minutes in D1 transfer to D3 ... and you figure Hopkins has good insight into his game due to his brother.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 24, 2023, 09:27:26 PM
True re O'Neil, but he was highly ranked as a high school player and Harvard still has pretty talented guys overall; hard to say why he didn't get more time.
I don't think that the "highly-ranked as a high-school player" thing holds much water in a discussion regarding the present-day merits of a basketball player who has just completed his four-year stint as a collegiate undergrad.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 24, 2023, 09:27:26 PMSpencer Freedman scored only 82 points in only 321 total minutes during his time at Harvard and he worked out OK ...
O'Neil's Harvard career was significantly more modest than Freedman's, as O'Neil scored only 10 points in a mere 50 total minutes during his time with the Crimson. And O'Neil played for Harvard for three years, whereas Freedman's numbers were spread out over a mere two seasons. O'Neil never got into more than seven games in any of his three seasons, whereas Freedman got into 16 games apiece during his brace of Crimson campaigns. What's more, O'Neil's participation
went down last season in spite of the fact that Harvard fell off dramatically as a team. He didn't play in either game against a lower-division opponent (Morehouse and Tufts). That's significant, because games against lower-division teams are typically the opportunity for walk-ons and other end-of-the-benchers to get their biggest chunks of minutes at the D1 level.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 24, 2023, 09:27:26 PMit's just hard to project these D1 guys who play limited minutes as very few who play big minutes in D1 transfer to D3 ... and you figure Hopkins has good insight into his game due to his brother.
O'Neil could turn out to be a terrific player for Johns Hopkins this coming season. Nobody's in any position to get an effective read on what sort of numbers he is likely to put up for the Blue Jays in 2023-24. But let's be honest; it's not likely that most of the players on the list that are transferring from the scholarship levels to D3 will end up being the next Spencer Freedman or Luke Chicone. They're more likely to simply be players who are at last finding the level at which they were always best suited to be. I'd venture to guess that most of them will be somewhere above average in terms of the competition that they'll now be facing. But don't expect them all as a collective whole to dominate the All-American or All-Region teams.
I'm not saying O'Neil is going to be Spencer Freedman. But Freedman went from a fringe rotation guy who barely scored in the Ivy League to one of the best guys in all of D3. And part of the reason why that was predictable (and predicted!) was that he was a truly awesome high school player. Some guys are just more suited to the D3 style. Freedman is highly skilled even for D1 but I imagine his (relative) lack of speed combined with a lot of injury bad luck prevented him from showing all he could do.
I'm also not saying every guy on the list is going to be a major success in D3, but these coaches have a LOT more intel on guys after several years in college than they do at age 18, and the success rate for scholarship level players is very high. There could be lots of reasons O'Neil didn't play more at Harvard but you can bet the then-Hopkins coach got the full story from Amaker. Even guys who were just walk ons have made a solid impact for good teams (like Savarino at NYU or J. Nixon at Hopkins). For someone who was a true recruited D1 guy, the talent is usually very high. As we've seen from the players who transferred from that level to Nichols, John Carroll, etc., who have generally made a huge impact even if the D1 production was modest. Never any guarantees of course, but it's a pretty good bet that the floor for Derring, Kiszka, and O'Neil (who were all legit low D1 recruits not walk on types) is quality starter and the ceiling considerably higher. And of course Yoder too, but he's a special case.
D2 is much closer to D3 in overall talent so harder to say. But we've also seen plenty of D2 guys make a big impact as transfers. And again, whether it's scholarship guys or D3 stars as grad transfers, the lesson of last year is that it's - unfortunately - very hard to compete at the highest level of D3 (as is true in D1!) in the COVID era without a major impact from transfers of some kind.
I would be 0.0% surprised if O'Neil was awesome at Hopkins I'm just saying that there is not much of a resume to go off of, and as GS pointed out, his minutes were way lower than Freedman's and clearly was not thought of in the same regard by their coaching staffs.
The biggest sell for O'Neil's success I would assume is that at 6'8 210 he was a tweener at Harvard who didn't shoot it well enough or move well enough to be a full time wing and was not big enough to be a full time big. At this level that won't be an issue at all and he can probably cause a ton of problems for a wide variety of matchups.
While the Covid era brings new challenges I don't think a team bringing in a transfer gives that team an automatic advantage over another team that is fortunate to have its star player (or 2) exercise his extra Covid year.
Let's take a random team, oh I dunno, say Williams, that has both Karren and CPS coming back for their Covid bonus year. They are a year older, are familiar with the environment, have played together with some teammates for 3 years already, and have proven they can excel in the system. I'd argue that all of that outweighs the possibility that a transfer could check all those boxes.
To the extent that a school can "keep" its star seniors around another year is a big deal. Lots of examples of this around D3.
A minor, minor nitpick, but some colleges and universities have benefited from student-athletes getting the Covid bonus year (or half season) and others have not. Playing four seasons in five years has long been a possibility.
I would second that as a minor nitpick as well. For example I don't think it is a coincidence that Randolph Macon was able to play 12 games in 2020-21 and then be historically good the following year. Lot different than taking an entire year off and having a two year gap between seasons.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 25, 2023, 09:55:32 AM
I'm not saying O'Neil is going to be Spencer Freedman. But Freedman went from a fringe rotation guy who barely scored in the Ivy League to one of the best guys in all of D3. And part of the reason why that was predictable (and predicted!) was that he was a truly awesome high school player.
I've gotta disagree with that. The difference between an 18-year-old student-athlete and a 21- or 22-year-old student-athlete is immense. All kinds of things can happen both on and off the court that change that player's makeup over the course of those four developmentally crucial years.
Mr. College Graduate, don't tell me the numbers you put up when you were still living under your parents' roof and your biggest concern was over whether or not Susie would go with you to the senior prom. You're a grown man now with a college diploma. Tell me the numbers you put up
last season. And if they don't amount to much, because you were at the wrong level and you thus didn't get enough playing time .... well, then we'll have to find some other way to assess you. But it won't involve how many points you scored against Crosstown High back in 2018.
The reason why Freedman's success as a Violet was predictable was because his
college numbers bore up under scrutiny. While 321 minutes played at Harvard doesn't sound like much, it amounted to an average of ten minutes played per game, spread out over 32 games in his two-season Crimson career. That's an atypically high amount of playing time for a D1 guy transferring to the D3 level. And it's crucial to note that he did this as a 6'0, 170 guard, which is somewhat undersized by D1 guard standards.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 25, 2023, 09:55:32 AMSome guys are just more suited to the D3 style. Freedman is highly skilled even for D1 but I imagine his (relative) lack of speed combined with a lot of injury bad luck prevented him from showing all he could do.
I agree. I've seen Freedman play. But his lack of D1-guard-level quickness is a pretty big qualifier when it comes to assessing his D1 capability.
Scholarship-level transfers aren't all interchangeable. That's my point, and we seem to agree about that. Their ability to play basketball relative to each other is on the same sort of continuum that other players are on. O'Neil thus isn't Freedman (although their positional difference makes it apples-and-oranges to some degree). It's likely, although not yet 100% certain, that Freedman was more of an impact player in D3 than O'Neil will be. And that's fine; Johns Hopkins doesn't need O'Neil to be a 2023-24 D3hoops.com third-team All-American in order for him to be a really useful piece for the Blue Jays next season.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 25, 2023, 09:55:32 AMI'm also not saying every guy on the list is going to be a major success in D3, but these coaches have a LOT more intel on guys after several years in college than they do at age 18, and the success rate for scholarship level players is very high.
I wouldn't go that far, but it's entirely possible that you and I have different definitions of "success rate" and/or "very high".
Quote from: nescac1 on June 25, 2023, 09:55:32 AMThere could be lots of reasons O'Neil didn't play more at Harvard but you can bet the then-Hopkins coach got the full story from Amaker.
I don't think it's necessarily a black mark on O'Neil's ledger as a D3 newbie that he hardly ever got off of the bench for Harvard. The most likely reason for it was that he simply wasn't good enough to play a lot of minutes at the D1 level, even at the relatively low sub-level of D1 represented by the Ivy League. SpringSt7's theory that O'Neil was a tweener at the D1 level seems pretty sound to me. That's not an indictment of him as a player, as he might turn out to be really good for Johns Hopkins this coming season, especially since he comes in as an older transfer. Among other things, the fact that he has hardly played any competition basketball at all over the past four years is somewhat mitigated by the fact that he spent that time practicing with and against D1 guys, which is an advantage that his new Johns Hopkins teammates haven't had.
A 6'8", 210 tweener at both ends of the floor in D1 could turn out to be a really good D3 stretch four.
It's all nuance and details.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 25, 2023, 09:55:32 AMEven guys who were just walk ons have made a solid impact for good teams (like Savarino at NYU or J. Nixon at Hopkins). For someone who was a true recruited D1 guy, the talent is usually very high.
Well, that's a key point. Not all D1 walk-ons are created equal. In most cases, a preferred walk-on who was actually recruited (with or without having the possibility of eventually earning a scholarship dangled before him) is going to be a better player than someone who was added to the roster via the open-tryout process. That's not always true, though; North Park's associate head coach Edwind McGhee, who was not recruited by a D1 school, made the team at DePaul as a freshman via an open tryout, and by his senior year he was a team captain on scholarship and appeared in 25 games for the Blue Demons, five of them as a starter. But he's an exception; the rule is that the preferred walk-on is typically better than the open-tryout walk-on, and the PWO at a Power Five conference school is oftentimes at the same level as a scholie player at a low-level D1 or a high-level D2.
But here's the thing: Do we know what type of walk-on each of the guys on this current list were? I notice that you did specify that UWSP acquisition Jackson Watson was a PWO at Bowling Green.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 25, 2023, 09:55:32 AMAs we've seen from the players who transferred from that level to Nichols, John Carroll, etc., who have generally made a huge impact even if the D1 production was modest. Never any guarantees of course, but it's a pretty good bet that the floor for Derring, Kiszka, and O'Neil (who were all legit low D1 recruits not walk on types) is quality starter and the ceiling considerably higher. And of course Yoder too, but he's a special case.
D2 is much closer to D3 in overall talent so harder to say. But we've also seen plenty of D2 guys make a big impact as transfers. And again, whether it's scholarship guys or D3 stars as grad transfers, the lesson of last year is that it's - unfortunately - very hard to compete at the highest level of D3 (as is true in D1!) in the COVID era without a major impact from transfers of some kind.
I agree wholeheartedly, and I don't think that it'll slow down all that much even after the Covid exemption pool of players are in the rear-view mirror.
I'm just resistant to making blanket statements about D1 transfers in general. Every guy is different.
OK, last I'll say on these topics but two responses. First, to BaboNation:
QuoteWhile the Covid era brings new challenges I don't think a team bringing in a transfer gives that team an automatic advantage over another team that is fortunate to have its star player (or 2) exercise his extra Covid year.
The thing is that on the best teams, most of the star players have already been exercising the extra COVID years, so it's hardly a big advantage when they do - AND many of them are getting elite transfers, to boot. As I mentioned earlier in the discussion, 7 of last year's elite 8 teams relied heavily on impact transfers. That is just way too high a percentage to be a product of chance. The ability to be able to poach D3 stars or scholarship level guys who you are confident are likely to make a huge impact is just SUCH a massive advantage for the teams in a position to do that.
It's how John Carroll went from terrible to a legit contender in just one season. Look at last year's two title teams: CNU's star big man was a D3 transfer (not actually a COVID-type transfer, but a transfer nonetheless). Their ace PG was a D2 transfer. Plus two other important rotation guys were transfers, as well. Mount Union, two of their top three guys were transfers, as well. Yes, both those teams had awesome homegrown talent, too. But when you take that talent AND add in a big time player or two it becomes SUCH a huge advantage. And I expect the same this year, too. Sure, there are a few teams who will be in the mix behind a veteran squad of guys who have played together forever, like Swarthmore (although at this point Landry is such an outlier that I hardly even count what Swarthmore is doing with the talent on hand) and RMC were last year. But the bulk of the top projected contenders, including teams like Whitewater, Oswego, Keene, CNU, John Carroll, North Park, Nichols, maybe Case and NYU with the guys they are bringing in, have gotten massive boosts from transfers, and will likely continue to do so. D3 is just (for another two years, at least) entirely different in terms of the most effective way to build a contending team than it was five years ago.
Regarding Freedman, in his last THREE years of eligibility at Harvard (one of which, to be fair, was cancelled due to COVID), he played a combined 106 minutes, and scored a combined 37 points on 40/27/50 splits, with 9 assists and 12 turnovers. There is simply no way you can look at that small and inefficient level of contribution, playing on a mid-tier Ivy league team, and say "this guy is gonna be a big-time player in D3." As the guy who was actually hyping Freedman before last season, the reason I did so was in large part because of his high school film (ridiculous) and credentials going into Harvard as a recruit. Sometimes certain type of players just aren't a great fit for D1 in general or their program in particular because of the guys at their position who are in front of them, or have to fight through some injuries.
Now granted, we have even less to go on with O'Neil in terms of any sort of college impact. But there is also room to be really really good and still far short of one of the best (if not the best) pure point guards in D3. And you can bet the former JHU coach knows his game having coached his older, smaller, and far less acclaimed (in H.S.) brother for four years. And before you just dismiss him for lack of college production, I'd note another D3 hoops all-American, Jaecee Martin, who was a very hyped high school player. At Sacred Heart as a frosh, he played a total of 32 minutes and scored 0 points, and then he was an immediate star (and indeed was expected to be) at St. Joe's.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 26, 2023, 10:01:04 AM
Regarding Freedman, in his last THREE years of eligibility at Harvard (one of which, to be fair, was cancelled due to COVID), he played a combined 106 minutes, and scored a combined 37 points on 40/27/50 splits, with 9 assists and 12 turnovers. There is simply no way you can look at that small and inefficient level of contribution, playing on a mid-tier Ivy league team, and say "this guy is gonna be a big-time player in D3."
That's
still more than the typical D1-to-D3 transfer brings to the table in terms of his D1 résumé. Most of that subset of D3 transfers have D1 career credentials that are closer to the practically-empty totals of Tommy O'Neil.
And cherry-picking his later totals to the detriment of all the PT he received as a freshman can lose sight of what made Freedman a good potential D3 transfer in the first place. The Harvard team he played for as a freshman was hardly a bunch of dead-enders; the Crimson were Ivy co-champs and reached the second round of the NIT. He didn't play at all as a sophomore; not entirely sure why, but the fact that he was appearing in a couple of Harvard/Ivy previews as late as October 2019 leads me to suspect that he sat it out due to a preseason injury, and of course Harvard didn't play at all in 2020-21 due to Covid. Despite not having played since he was a freshman, it appears that he would've seen even more time as a senior than he did, especially given the mediocrity of the Crimson that season, if he hadn't missed almost all of December and January due to injury.
In fact, the more I look at the details of Freedman's Harvard career, the more he looked like a great bet to succeed tremendously at the D3 level.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 26, 2023, 10:01:04 AM
As the guy who was actually hyping Freedman before last season, the reason I did so was in large part because of his high school film (ridiculous) and credentials going into Harvard as a recruit. Sometimes certain type of players just aren't a great fit for D1 in general or their program in particular because of the guys at their position who are in front of them, or have to fight through some injuries.
Injuries have nothing to do with "fit", unless you're talking about previous injuries causing lingering debilitation. Injuries are injuries. They happen at all levels, to players great and not-so-great.
Quote from: nescac1 on June 26, 2023, 10:01:04 AMNow granted, we have even less to go on with O'Neil in terms of any sort of college impact. But there is also room to be really really good and still far short of one of the best (if not the best) pure point guards in D3. And you can bet the former JHU coach knows his game having coached his older, smaller, and far less acclaimed (in H.S.) brother for four years. And before you just dismiss him for lack of college production,
Nowhere did I "dismiss [O'Neil] for lack of college production." On the contrary:
Quote from: Gregory Sager on June 25, 2023, 08:03:35 PMJohns Hopkins doesn't need O'Neil to be a 2023-24 D3hoops.com third-team All-American in order for him to be a really useful piece for the Blue Jays next season.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on June 25, 2023, 08:03:35 PMSpringSt7's theory that O'Neil was a tweener at the D1 level seems pretty sound to me. That's not an indictment of him as a player, as he might turn out to be really good for Johns Hopkins this coming season, especially since he comes in as an older transfer. Among other things, the fact that he has hardly played any competition basketball at all over the past four years is somewhat mitigated by the fact that he spent that time practicing with and against D1 guys, which is an advantage that his new Johns Hopkins teammates haven't had.
A 6'8", 210 tweener at both ends of the floor in D1 could turn out to be a really good D3 stretch four.
Moving on ...
Quote from: nescac1 on June 26, 2023, 10:01:04 AM
I'd note another D3 hoops all-American, Jaecee Martin, who was a very hyped high school player. At Sacred Heart as a frosh, he played a total of 32 minutes and scored 0 points, and then he was an immediate star (and indeed was expected to be) at St. Joe's.
... which proves nothing. Again, every player is different. And note that in the "relevance of high-school performance" discussion you've gone from discussing a player who was four years removed from high school to someone who was one year removed from high school.
When it comes to O'Neil, it is true that he was a very accomplished high school and post grad player playing with and against some really good competition. Had the opportunity to see him play in multiple high level AAU events prior to his prep school year against many, many future D1 players and he certainly fit the part of a player who had the potential to be an impact player at a school like Harvard. If I recall correctly, he had a dozen or more D1 offers. How/why he never met those expectations at Harvard is a mystery (the comment about him being a tweener at the D1 level is as good a theory as any). In regards to how impactful he will be at JHU, I think if he puts up numbers anything like his brother did at JHU (7-8 pts / 4-5 reb) the new coach will be thrilled. Assuming Carson James is back, you can expect the bulk of the scoring to come from James, Windley, Johansson and Yeutter (assuming he is still around). Thybulle (although not a great scorer) will do his thing and will certainly draw plenty of attention in the post. That definitely leaves a great opportunity for O'Neil to have plenty of impact on the success of JHU next season.
Updating with Jack Clement who is heading to Otterbein
Latest updates:
D3 players who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin Stevens-Point
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Whitewater
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Bryce Hopkins - UChicago
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Intentions unknown:
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Carson James - Johns Hopkins
I have it on good source that Cole Frilling is not coming back to CWRU.
Quote from: PoppersMacsLive on June 29, 2023, 06:32:40 PM
I have it on good source that Cole Frilling is not coming back to CWRU.
Old news, lol!
Updating with Jack Clement who is heading to Otterbein
I just split up D3 to scholarship and D3 to D3.
Latest updates:
D3 players MOVING UP who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
D3 players TO D3 TEAMS who have announced transfer destination:
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to Wisconsin - River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin - Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin - Stevens-Point
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Wisconsin - Whitewater
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Bryce Hopkins - UChicago
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Intentions unknown:
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Carson James - Johns Hopkins
Wonder why the switch from JCU to Otterbein
Howie Rankin from Susquehanna has announced he is transferring to Widener for his grad season. Rankin was 1st team All-Landmark and conference DPOY.
So he's not going to CWRU like everyone else and his former teammate? LOL
Latest updates:
D3 players MOVING UP who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Craig Steele - Lacrosse to D2 St. Cloud State
D3 players TO D3 TEAMS who have announced transfer destination:
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Howie Rankin - Susquehanna to Widener
Kyran Mitchell - W&J to Elmhurst
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to Wisconsin - River Falls
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin - Stout
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin - Stevens-Point
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Wisconsin - Whitewater
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
In the transfer portal:
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Will King - Colby
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Josh Angle - CMC
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Ryan Clements - HSC
Josiah Johnson - MHB
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Bryce Hopkins - UChicago
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Donyae Baylor-Carroll - PSU-Harrisburg (after a year off)
Tyler Dearman - Guilford
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Intentions unknown:
John Lowther - WPI
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Carson James - Johns Hopkins
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on July 08, 2023, 10:04:31 PM
So he's not going to CWRU like everyone else and his former teammate? LOL
Hah, he actually did follow a teammate to Widener, Dominic Dunn. Susquehanna's lack of graduate programs not letting them take advantage of the extra year.
Quote from: OUVan59 on July 10, 2023, 01:02:14 PM
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on July 08, 2023, 10:04:31 PM
So he's not going to CWRU like everyone else and his former teammate? LOL
Hah, he actually did follow a teammate to Widener, Dominic Dunn. Susquehanna's lack of graduate programs not letting them take advantage of the extra year.
This has been the case for many schools. Schools with graduate programs have a major advantage over the rest of the field, which goes against the philosophy of division III in my opinion. Yes I know the usual response is "this won't last forever" but there will still be another year of it.
Quote from: stlawus on July 10, 2023, 01:20:32 PM
Quote from: OUVan59 on July 10, 2023, 01:02:14 PM
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on July 08, 2023, 10:04:31 PM
So he's not going to CWRU like everyone else and his former teammate? LOL
Hah, he actually did follow a teammate to Widener, Dominic Dunn. Susquehanna's lack of graduate programs not letting them take advantage of the extra year.
This has been the case for many schools. Schools with graduate programs have a major advantage over the rest of the field, which goes against the philosophy of division III in my opinion. Yes I know the usual response is "this won't last forever" but there will still be another year of it.
How so?
Level playing field. Goes hand in hand with the current Pool C debate. Teams with more money and resources can more easily tailor schedules to get pool C bids. Same applies with the covid year, schools with grad programs or more extensive grad programs compared to others have an advantage when it comes to getting 5th year players.
Quote from: stlawus on July 10, 2023, 02:12:44 PM
Level playing field. Goes hand in hand with the current Pool C debate. Teams with more money and resources can more easily tailor schedules to get pool C bids. Same applies with the covid year, schools with grad programs or more extensive grad programs compared to others have an advantage when it comes to getting 5th year players.
It is seriously naive to conceive of the philosophy of D3 as having a general aspiration to create a "level playing field" within the division. By its very nature as a huge and diverse conglomerate of schools, D3 is not, and never has been, set up to be a "level playing field." Examples of advantages and disadvantages abound: state schools are dramatically cheaper than private schools; schools with larger endowments can offer better resources and a broader menu of course offerings than schools with smaller endowments, to say nothing of such sports-specific perqs as more travel, overseas summer trips, etc.; schools located in the northeastern corner of the country can take advantage of the surfeit of nearby D3 schools for scheduling purposes, as compared to the schools in the Midwest and (especially) the South and the West Coast; schools with narrowly-tailored student bodies (single-sex institutions, religious-requirement institutions, STEM-only institutions, etc.) have to compete against schools with more generalized student bodies; and so on.
The only "level playing field" that exists in D3, aside from the rules of the sports themselves and their participation calendars, is the no-athletic-scholarships rule and its ancillary requirements regarding student-athlete access to non-athletic scholarships and financial aid as compared to students at large.
Maybe so but the goal should be to make it as level as possible even with all the various aspects of different schools.
Quote from: stlawus on July 10, 2023, 01:20:32 PM
Schools with graduate programs have a major advantage over the rest of the field, which goes against the philosophy of division III in my opinion.
I mean no disrespect, but as long as you bring this up, I'll be here to bring up the counterpoints to illustrate that it is more complicated than that. For example, Susquehanna has three Masters programs including a 4+1 MBA. A 4+1 seems as though it should provide a big advantage.
I'll never get around to it, but I would be very interested to see how many schools benefited from students who did a fifth year of undergraduate work. Or, a gap year and a fourth year of undergraduate work as was the case with the Emory class of 2021. Or how many schools that are generally considered 4-year liberal arts institutions that still found ways to retain graduate students for a fifth year.
Quote from: stlawus on July 10, 2023, 03:45:45 PM
Maybe so but the goal should be to make it as level as possible even with all the various aspects of different schools.
And, how, exactly, do you propose that the member institutions of D3 pursue this goal?
Kyran Mitchell transferring from Washington & Jefferson to Elmhurst, big addition there.
Latest updates:
D3 players MOVING UP who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Craig Steele - Lacrosse to D2 St. Cloud State
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
D3 players to D3 TEAMS who have announced transfer destination:
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Kyran Mitchell - W&J to Elmhurst
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Howie Rankin - Susquehanna to Widener
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to Wisconsin - River Falls
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin - Stevens-Point
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin - Stout
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Wisconsin - Whitewater
In the transfer portal:
Josh Angle - CMC
Will King - Colby
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Tyler Dearman - Guilford
Ryan Clements - Hampden-Sydney
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Josiah Johnson - Mary Hardin Baylor
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Donyae Baylor-Carroll - PSU-Harrisburg (after a year off)
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Bryce Hopkins - Univ. of Chicago
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
Intentions unknown:
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Carson James - Johns Hopkins
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
John Lowther - WPI
Two more scholarship level transfers to add:
CJ Jones - BU to Claremont McKenna (I believe has two years eligibility left)
Simon Wilbar - Indiana State to Maryville (also two years left)
Both D1 rotation guys so I imagine could be big additions.
Quote from: nescac1 on July 16, 2023, 09:03:35 PM
Simon Wilbar - Indiana State to Maryville (also two years left)
I'll be interested to see how this player works out.
He played sparingly as a redshirt freshman for a Division II team that had two big postseason runs before following the coach to Indiana State. He started 17 games, but played just 12 minutes with limited numbers as a redshirt sophomore. He did not play last season.
But hey, 6-11 and 240 pounds so...
I think he has three seasons of eligibility left.
FYI - John Lowther will not be returning for a 5th year at WPI. He is now a commissioned officer in the United States Army.
Latest updates:
D3 players MOVING UP who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Craig Steele - Lacrosse to D2 St. Cloud State
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
D3 players to D3 TEAMS who have announced transfer destination:
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Kyran Mitchell - W&J to Elmhurst
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Howie Rankine Jr - Susquehanna to Widener
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
CJ Jones - D1 Boston U. to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to Wisconsin - River Falls
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin - Stevens-Point
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin - Stout
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Wisconsin - Whitewater
In the transfer portal:
Will King - Colby
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Josh Angle - Claremont Mudd Scripps
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Tyler Dearman - Guilford
Ryan Clements - Hampden-Sydney
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Josiah Johnson - Mary Hardin Baylor
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Donyae Baylor-Carroll - PSU-Harrisburg (after a year off)
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Bryce Hopkins - Univ. of Chicago
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
John Lowther - WPI
Intentions unknown:
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Carson James - Johns Hopkins
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
Looks like Will King has found a home at Claremont-M-S
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1681802331078246400?s=20
EDIT: WK retweeted this, so it should be legit
Ashton Myles-Devore is transferring from Louisville to Mary Hardin Baylor. A bit less exciting than the headline, as he was a walk-on who almost never played ... but could be a nice addition to an already-strong team.
Also, Tyler Putney is transferring from D2 Daemon to Nazareth, where I imagine he could make a significant impact.
Dominic Dunn is returning to Widener for another year. He'll team up with former Susquehanna teammate Howie Rankine Jr., who is transferring to Widener (previously posted). Rankine was defensive player of the year in the Landmark and also was a 1st team AC.
Latest updates:
D3 players MOVING UP who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Craig Steele - Lacrosse to D2 St. Cloud State
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
D3 players to D3 TEAMS who have announced transfer destination:
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Kyran Mitchell - W&J to Elmhurst
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Howie Rankine Jr - Susquehanna to Widener
Will King - Colby to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Stephon Baxter - Bates to Babson
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
CJ Jones - D1 Boston U. to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to Wisconsin - River Falls
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin - Stevens-Point
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin - Stout
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Wisconsin - Whitewater
Tyler Putney - D2 Daemon to Nazareth
Ashton Myles-Devore - D1 Louisville (walk-on) to MHB
In the transfer portal:
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Brendan Mora - Pomona
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Josh Angle - Claremont Mudd Scripps
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Tyler Dearman - Guilford
Ryan Clements - Hampden-Sydney
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Josiah Johnson - Mary Hardin Baylor
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Donyae Baylor-Carroll - PSU-Harrisburg (after a year off)
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Bryce Hopkins - Univ. of Chicago
Dominic Dunn - Widener
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
John Lowther - WPI
Intentions unknown:
Cole Frilling - CWRU (possibly, but reportedly unlikely)
Carson James - Johns Hopkins
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year)
The biggest off-season winners appear to be:
Case Western
Nichols
Claremont Mudd Scripps
NYU
Elmhurst
St. John Fisher
Johns Hopkins (particular if Carson James returns, and I believe he is)
Otterbein
Meanwhile, brutal off-season for Nescac, which can't take grad transfers and lost two fifth-year all-American guys to D1 schools plus four others (including three all-league players) to other D3 programs.
Quote from: nescac1 on July 28, 2023, 08:11:30 AM
The biggest off-season winners appear to be:
Case Western
Nichols
Claremont Mudd Scripps
NYU
Elmhurst
St. John Fisher
Johns Hopkins (particular if Carson James returns, and I believe he is)
Otterbein
That is a conclusion drawn from incomplete information. There are other categories of transfers -- juco transfers and NAIA transfers come to mind -- that are not taken into account here.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on July 28, 2023, 10:12:08 AM
That is a conclusion drawn from incomplete information.
A conclusion drawn while ignoring the full context of the post.
Clearly he recognizes that no all incoming and outgoing transfers are known as this point. Hence the thread.
Yes. It's incomplete and we all recognize that. No one knows every transfer coming in or out. It's a fun thread and it does fill in some questions on players. For lack of a better term, I don't know if there's actually a "transfer window". I'm sure it's not closed yet.
Yep, I'm certain that it isn't. There may be student-athletes who make their transfer decisions at the eleventh hour before school starts.
I don't want to come off as griping about what nescac1 has been doing here. This is a fun thread, but it's a really useful one as well, and we owe him a thank-you for creating it and curating it.
....and Karma...
A few more transfers of note ... Collin Jones of Lebanon Valley will be using his extra year of eligibility playing for D2 Lock Haven U in 23-24; Jalen Watkins will use his extra year of eligibility and return to Arcadia as a grad student; Stephen Braunstein has transferred from Scranton to Stevens as a grad student for his extra year of eligibility
Just talked with my Case Western contact at the fitness center today - he thinks Case has 6 xfers coming in plus 4 frosh; he might not make the team this season with all the newcomers. Thought 1 xfer was a big from RIT that hasn't been listed so far.
I think only four Case guys reported so far - two more would be pretty crazy as they are already loaded with new talent.
Brendan Mora is transferring to D2 Chaminade:
https://twitter.com/swordsmbb/status/1687599440557957120?s=46&t=f6sxXDdfYkdSSeU0Te9c9A
Latest updates:
D3 players MOVING UP who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Craig Steele - Lacrosse to D2 St. Cloud State
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Brendan Mora - Pomona to D2 Chaminade-Hawaii
Colin Jones - Lebanon Valley to D2 Lock Haven
Jack Henderson - Lewis and Clark to D2 Montevallo
D3 players to D3 TEAMS who have announced transfer destination:
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Kyran Mitchell - W&J to Elmhurst
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Howie Rankine Jr - Susquehanna to Widener
Will King - Colby to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Stephon Baxter - Bates to Babson
Stephen Braunstein - Scranton to Stevens
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst to St. Thomas TX
Mick Hergenrother - Mount Union to Westminster
Gilbert Otoo - Trinity (CT) to Brandeis (unconfirmed)
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
CJ Jones - D1 Boston U. to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to Wisconsin - River Falls
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin - Stevens-Point
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin - Stout
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Wisconsin - Whitewater
Tyler Putney - D2 Daemon to Nazareth
Ashton Myles-Devore - D1 Louisville (walk-on) to MHB
Jaylan Hewitt - D1 Florida A&M (did not play) to Case Western
In the transfer portal:
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Josh Angle - Claremont Mudd Scripps
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Tyler Dearman - Guilford
Ryan Clements - Hampden-Sydney
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Josiah Johnson - Mary Hardin Baylor
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Donyae Baylor-Carroll - PSU-Harrisburg (after a year off)
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Bryce Hopkins - Univ. of Chicago
Dominic Dunn - Widener
Jalen Watkins - Arcadia
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
John Lowther - WPI
Cole Frilling - CWRU
Intentions unknown:
Carson James - Johns Hopkins (I believe he is returning but not confirmed)
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year, I believe he is not returning)
Jalen Echevarria - Endicott (I believe he is returning, but not confirmed)
Wesley Hooker, formerly of Elmhurst, to St. Thomas (TX)
https://twitter.com/wl0ading22/status/1688281005046566912?t=dhDpiVxJpoiN2m4Eqak7Lg&s=19
Gilbert Otoo (Trinity Conn.) to Brandeis University
Yet another transfer to Case Western. If true they have six, that's five of six identified:
https://twitter.com/theportalreport/status/1689061857653387265?s=46&t=f6sxXDdfYkdSSeU0Te9c9A
He has moved around a bit and not played a ton of minutes at higher levels - Case will be his fifth college! His dad is a Case alum.
C.J. Nwosu -- D2 Missouri S&T to North Park
Johnny Semany (https://usiscreamingeagles.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/johnny-semany/8068) - Lawrence (started 24 games as Fr) to D2 Southern Indiana
Kaleb Jenkins (https://unoprivateers.com/news/2023/6/28/mens-basketball-privateer-basketball-adds-scac-player-of-the-year-kaleb-jenkins.aspx)- Trinity (TX) (Grad transfer) to D1 New Orleans
Kurtis Henderson (https://snhupenmen.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/kurtis-henderson/5784) - Hartford [year 2 provisional](started 26 games as So) to D2 Southern New Hampshire
Jake Segulin (https://lakeeriestorm.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jacob-segulin/6505) - Defiance (under 7 min/g) to D2 Lake Erie
Dylan Ruder (https://usfcougars.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/dylan-ruder/7495) - UWSP (saw little action) to D2 Sioux Falls
Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on August 17, 2023, 02:37:54 AM
Johnny Semany (https://usiscreamingeagles.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/johnny-semany/8068) - Lawrence (started 24 games as Fr) to D2 Southern Indiana
Southern Indiana moved to Division I last season or maybe the season before, making that an interesting transfer.
Rochester has four guys returning as super-seniors or graduate students. I am not sure how good they will be, but that helps.
https://uofrathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
Quote from: WUPHF on August 17, 2023, 08:08:44 AM
Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on August 17, 2023, 02:37:54 AM
Johnny Semany (https://usiscreamingeagles.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/johnny-semany/8068) - Lawrence (started 24 games as Fr) to D2 Southern Indiana
Southern Indiana moved to Division I last season or maybe the season before, making that an interesting transfer.
Rochester has four guys returning as super-seniors or graduate students. I am not sure how good they will be, but that helps.
https://uofrathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
I didn't realize they had moved up. That makes 11 D1 schools here in Indiana vs just 10 in D3 (and down to 2 in D2)
Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on August 17, 2023, 01:49:29 PM
I didn't realize they had moved up. That makes 11 D1 schools here in Indiana vs just 10 in D3 (and down to 2 in D2)
I also follow the GLVC and yeah, the University of Indiana was going to join the Ohio Valley Conference along with Lindenwood and Southern Indiana but something happened and they are still in Division II.
Missouri has just three Division III schools (along with six Division I schools), but the state has a lot of Division II schools and I can see a few more going Division I.
Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on August 17, 2023, 01:49:29 PM
Quote from: WUPHF on August 17, 2023, 08:08:44 AM
Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on August 17, 2023, 02:37:54 AM
Johnny Semany (https://usiscreamingeagles.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/johnny-semany/8068) - Lawrence (started 24 games as Fr) to D2 Southern Indiana
Southern Indiana moved to Division I last season or maybe the season before, making that an interesting transfer.
Rochester has four guys returning as super-seniors or graduate students. I am not sure how good they will be, but that helps.
https://uofrathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
I didn't realize they had moved up. That makes 11 D1 schools here in Indiana vs just 10 in D3 (and down to 2 in D2)
... and 19 in NAIA. Indiana remains a bastion of that organization.
I was surprised to see 14 NAIA schools in Missouri, but sure enough.
Also, my apologies to Westminster.
Missouri has four Division III institutions.
Quote from: WUPHF on August 17, 2023, 04:45:30 PM
I was surprised to see 14 NAIA schools in Missouri, but sure enough.
Also, my apologies to Westminster.
Missouri has four Division III institutions.
If anyone should know about Westminster (MO), it's you. LOL
It has clearly not been my week.
In my defense, Westminster went 1-24 against Division III competition in one of the most forgettable seasons ever and I am not sure they will be better in 2023-2024.
Some late-breaking transfer news:
De'Ovion Price - Adrian to Marietta
(man the top four teams in OAC are gonna be loaded as is that entire region's top eight).
Justin Gielen - Mt St. Mary's hoops and formerly soccer at Maryland to Hood
Tommy McGuire - Muhlenberg to Stevens
The first two seem like potential big impact players.
Skyline conference player of the year, Tommy Lotito, is returning for another year for Manhattanvile.
2-time 1st team all-UMAC Cade Carroll of Crown is returning for another year.
Quote from: nescac1 on August 23, 2023, 08:58:52 AM
Some late-breaking transfer news:
De'Ovion Price - Adrian to Marietta
(man the top four teams in OAC are gonna be loaded as is that entire region's top eight).
Justin Gielen - Mt St. Mary's hoops and formerly soccer at Maryland to Hood
Tommy McGuire - Muhlenberg to Stevens
The first two seem like potential big impact players.
McGuire is an under the radar transfer that has an opportunity to play a really nice role this season. 6'8" with nearly 7' wingspan. 4th leading rebounder and 2nd leading shot blocker in tough Centennial Conference last season battling the likes of huge guys like Caprise, Thybulle, Parra, Grubbs, Corzine, etc. Really strong defender for a good Muhlenberg program. He was recruited by several strong D3 programs for grad transfer season. High academic kid and NJ native, so Stevens is a good fit for him as a grad student. Gielen is an interesting one. MSM grad here so familiar with him and he was a non-factor in one year at the D1 basketball level. That being said, he is an outstanding athlete and was a really good high school point guard for national power DeMatha playing with and against elite level players (5+ years ago). As a 6th year student athlete he will certainly be an impact player for Hood and should provide solid point guard play, but I would not anticipate him filling any kind of huge scoring role.
Thanks for all the updates in the preceding posts! Full updated list ...
D3 players MOVING UP who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Craig Steele - Lacrosse to D2 St. Cloud State
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Brendan Mora - Pomona to D2 Chaminade-Hawaii
Colin Jones - Lebanon Valley to D2 Lock Haven
Jack Henderson - Lewis and Clark to D2 Montevallo
Johnny Semany - Lawrence to D2 Southern Indiana
Kaleb Jenkins - Trinity (TX) (Grad transfer) to D1 New Orleans
Kurtis Henderson - Hartford [year 2 provisional] to D2 Southern New Hampshire
Jake Segulin - Defiance to D2 Lake Erie
Dylan Ruder - UWSP to D2 Sioux Falls
D3 players to D3 TEAMS who have announced transfer destination:
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Kyran Mitchell - W&J to Elmhurst
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Howie Rankine Jr - Susquehanna to Widener
Will King - Colby to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Stephon Baxter - Bates to Babson
Stephen Braunstein - Scranton to Stevens
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst to St. Thomas TX
Mick Hergenrother - Mount Union to Westminster
Gilbert Otoo - Trinity (CT) to Brandeis
De'Ovion Price - Adrian to Marietta
Tommy McGuire - Muhlenberg to Stevens
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
CJ Jones - D1 Boston U. to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to Wisconsin - River Falls
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin - Stevens-Point
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin - Stout
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Wisconsin - Whitewater
Tyler Putney - D2 Daemon to Nazareth
Ashton Myles-Devore - D1 Louisville (walk-on) to MHB
Jaylan Hewitt - D1 Florida A&M (did not play) to Case Western
Justin Gielen - D1 Mt St. Mary's to Hood
C.J. Nwosu -- D2 Missouri S&T to North Park
In the transfer portal:
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Josh Angle - Claremont Mudd Scripps
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Tyler Dearman - Guilford
Ryan Clements - Hampden-Sydney
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Josiah Johnson - Mary Hardin Baylor
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Donyae Baylor-Carroll - PSU-Harrisburg (after a year off)
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Bryce Hopkins - Univ. of Chicago
Dominic Dunn - Widener
Jalen Watkins - Arcadia
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Tommy Lotito - Manhattanville
Austin Westra - UW-Lacrosse
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
John Lowther - WPI
Cole Frilling - CWRU
Zach Johnson - Vassar
Intentions unknown:
Carson James - Johns Hopkins (I believe he is returning but not confirmed)
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year, I believe he is not returning)
Jalen Echevarria - Endicott (I believe he is returning, but not confirmed)
Austin Westra, who lead La Crosse is scoring, rebounding, assists and steals, will be returning, at least he was featured on La Crosse's schedule release on Twitter. The Eagles were ranked as high as 2 or 3 last season but failed to make the NCAA tournament.
Christopher Newport has three players back for a graduate year. None are stars, but all have been rotation players, so the depth around and behind their star players should once again be very strong. I'd assume a lock for pre-season number one despite a number of other loaded teams behind them:
https://www.cnusports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
Quote from: nescac1 on August 30, 2023, 02:22:02 PM
Christopher Newport has three players back for a graduate year. None are stars, but all have been rotation players, so the depth around and behind their star players should once again be very strong. I'd assume a lock for pre-season number one despite a number of other loaded teams behind them:
https://www.cnusports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
Trey Barber was rumored to be in the portal but it appears he's back at CNU. Captains will likely be preseason No. 1.
Quote from: nescac1 on August 30, 2023, 02:22:02 PM
Christopher Newport has three players back for a graduate year. None are stars, but all have been rotation players, so the depth around and behind their star players should once again be very strong. I'd assume a lock for pre-season number one despite a number of other loaded teams behind them:
https://www.cnusports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
4 returning starters plus some good bench players returning. Freshman class is difficult to find much about so far. Last I heard, Ty Henderson's younger brother is one of the new guys. He's pretty good, too!
CNU85, I saw that CNU posted its incoming frosh on Instagram. Looks like a really, really strong first year class -- large in number and includes several acclaimed, very productive VA all-state players. I imagine immediate playing time will be tough to come by with so many veterans back, but CNU looks pretty well stocked for the future.
Quote from: nescac1 on August 31, 2023, 11:19:54 AM
CNU85, I saw that CNU posted its incoming frosh on Instagram. Looks like a really, really strong first year class -- large in number and includes several acclaimed, very productive VA all-state players. I imagine immediate playing time will be tough to come by with so many veterans back, but CNU looks pretty well stocked for the future.
HAHA - I'm old...I have an Instagram account, but I guess I should learn how to navigate that app. I think my IT guys at work have it blocked.
Thanks for the insight. I will check it out.
I like what I see. I'm familiar with the high schools and most are very strong contenders for state championships (with some recent titles).
I counted 9. That's a lot to bring in. I will do more research on these new guys and see what I can find.
Ken Thomas (Albion) to North Central per NCC Twitter https://x.com/nccmbb/status/1700242013981962599?s=46&t=4DvIlXwALDxaGF4YLhO6NQ
I'm sure I've got more, but here's a batch for now
Cam Glover (https://montevallofalcons.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/cameron-glover/6108) - Birmingham-Southern to D2 Montevallo (Averaged 17.1 points in 14 games as a junior)
Reed Trapp (https://auburntigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/reed-trapp/19199) - Birmingham-Southern to D1 Auburn (only 23 minutes as a Freshman)
Jalen Wilmington (https://lewisflyers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jalen-wilmington/11075)- Central to D2 Lewis (grad transfer, averaged 5.7 minutes as senior)
Tyler Bush (https://gseagles.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/tyler-bush/6094) - Centre to D1 Georgia Southern (played 44 minutes as a sophomore)
Zach Hayn (https://scarletknights.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/zach-hayn/12974) - Hartwick to D1 Rutgers (grad transfer, averaged 8.7 minutes in 17 games, father is chief of staff of Rutgers)
Amun-Ra Collins (https://nwusports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/amun-ra-collins/8315) - Buena Vista to Nebraska Wesleyan (only 7 minutes last year, 19 games off the bench as a freshman)
Ryan Grande (https://nwusports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ryan-grande/8317) - Cal Lutheran to Nebraska Wesleyan (appeared in 21 games off the bench as a sophomore)
Simon Wilbar (https://mcscots.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/simon-wilbar/4289) - D1 Holy Cross to Maryville (averaged 7.2 minutes in 10 games)
Sean Beckman (https://www.cucougars.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/sean-beckman/8672) NJCAA Harper College to Concordia-Chicago (averaged 16.9 points and 10.5 rebounds as a sophomore)
Parker Godwin (http://www.berryvikings.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/parker-godwin/8205) NJCAA Gadsden St to Berry (11.9 points and 4.4 rebounds as a sophomore)
Jacob Morgan (http://www.berryvikings.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jacob-morgan/8206) D2 Emory & Henry to Berry (10.3 minutes in 26 games as a sophomore)
Ethan Johnson (https://gomessiah.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ethan-johnson/10675) D1 Colorado to Messiah (redshirt freshman)
CJ Napier (https://daytonflyers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/cj-napier/14359) - Ohio Northern to D1 Dayton (grad transfer, 17.9 points and 7.3 rebounds in 23 games)
Landen Long (https://gobearcats.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/landen-long/11984) - Ohio Northern to D1 Cincinnati (grad transfer, averaged 10.9 points in 24 games)
Brandon Stoudamire (http://www.berryvikings.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/brandon-stoudamire/8204)- Mary Baldwin to Berry (14 points and 4.1 rebounds in 26 games as sophomore)
Aaron Lane (https://athletics.elmira.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster/aaron-lane/6268) - Keuka to Elmira (only 1 appearance as sophomore but made 15 starts at PSU-Berks in 21-22)
Ryan Nurenberg (https://utdcomets.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ryan-nurenberg/5029) - NJCAA Brookhaven to Texas-Dallas (14.6 points and 4.6 assists in 25 games as sophomore)
DeAndre Vortes (https://illinoistechathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/deandre-vortes/2943) - NJCAA Illinois Valley CC to Illinois Tech (12.8 points in 27 games as sophomore)
Connor Barnett (https://cornellrams.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/connor-barnett/6010) - NJCAA Carl Sandburg to Cornell (9.2 points and 4 rebounds in 31 games as sophomore)
Dylan Hurley (https://cornellrams.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/dylan-hurley/6013) - NAIA Iowa Wesleyan (closing) to Cornell (17.2 minutes off the bench in 30 games as sophomore)
Reed Kemp (https://mcscots.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/reed-kemp/4176) - D2 Missouri Western St to Maryville (12.8 minutes in 28 games as sophomore)
Brennen McNally (https://monmouthscots.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/brennen-mcnally/16274) - NJCAA Kishwaukee to Monmouth (13 points and 6.3 rebounds in 30 games as sophomore)
Jalen Dale (https://udspartans.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jalen-dale/4109) - NJCAA Kishwaukee to Dubuque (19 appearances as freshman)
Drew Irby (https://greensborocollegesports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/drew-irby/7413) - D2 Arkansas-Fort Smith to Greensboro (only 10 minutes as a redshirt freshman)
Jake Mazrimas (https://illinoiscollegeathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/2023-24) is listed on the roster as returning to Illinois College for a 5th year.
Enzo Sechi(Trinity(TX), '22 all-region 1st team) transfers to Catholic
Lenny Buddington, originally a walk-on at Lehigh, transferred to SLU.
One final update before a lot more rosters start updating over the next few weeks ... thanks to FCGrizzlies and others for all the contributions!
D3 players MOVING UP who have announced transfer destination:
Raheem Anthony - St. Mary's to D1 St. Thomas
Jamal Cannady - Bryn Athyn to D2 Trevecca
Dan Carr - Augustana to D2 Rockhurt University
Lucas Heflin - IWU to D2 Mississippi College
Tautvydas Kupstas - Skidmore to D2 West Florida
Xzavier Lino - Whitman to D1 UMass-Lowell
Cody Mitchell - IWU to NAIA/D2 Roosevelt University
Malcolm Noel - Covenant to D2 West Georgia
Rodrick Payne - River Falls to D1 Western Illinois
Nathan Scheider - Pitt Bradford to D2 Gannon
Andrew Seager - Rowan to D2 Mississippi College
Alex Sobel - Middlebury to D1 Sacred Heart
Craig Steele - Lacrosse to D2 St. Cloud State
Lyle Tipton - Geneva to D2 Gannon
Dylan Thoerner - Tufts to D1 UC-Irvine (confirmed)
Brock Voigt - Eau Clair to D2 Winona State
Elijah Williams - Gettysburg to D1 Howard
Brendan Mora - Pomona to D2 Chaminade-Hawaii
Colin Jones - Lebanon Valley to D2 Lock Haven
Jack Henderson - Lewis and Clark to D2 Montevallo
Johnny Semany - Lawrence to D2 Southern Indiana
Kaleb Jenkins - Trinity (TX) (Grad transfer) to D1 New Orleans
Kurtis Henderson - Hartford [year 2 provisional] to D2 Southern New Hampshire
Jake Segulin - Defiance to D2 Lake Erie
Dylan Ruder - UWSP to D2 Sioux Falls
CJ Napier - Ohio Northern to D1 Dayton
Landen Long - Ohio Northern to D1 Cincinnati
Cam Glover - Birmingham-Southern to D2 Montevallo
Reed Trapp - Birmingham-Southern to D1 Auburn
Jalen Wilmington - Central to D2 Lewis
Tyler Bush - Centre to D1 Georgia Southern
Zach Hayn - Hartwick to D1 Rutgers
Alex Carlisle - Wheaton (MA) to D2 Assumption
D3 players to D3 TEAMS who have announced transfer destination:
Anthony Mazzeo - Baldwin Wallace to Case Western
Preston Maccoux - Wesleyan to Case Western
Richie Manigault - Washington & Lee to Case Western
Colin Kahl - Sewanee to Case Western
Andrew Fox - RIT to Case Western
Kyran Mitchell - W&J to Elmhurst
Josh Decker - Kalamazoo to Hope
Jack Clement - OWU to Otterbein
Cooper Wirkala - Colby to Thomas
Howie Rankine Jr - Susquehanna to Widener
Will King - Colby to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Stephon Baxter - Bates to Babson
Stephen Braunstein - Scranton to Stevens
Wesley Hooker - Elmhurst to St. Thomas TX
Mick Hergenrother - Mount Union to Westminster
Gilbert Otoo - Trinity (CT) to Brandeis
De'Ovion Price - Adrian to Marietta
Tommy McGuire - Muhlenberg to Stevens
Enzo Sechi - Trinity (TX) to Catholic
Brandon Stoudamire - Mary Baldwin to Berry
Aaron Lane - Keuka to Elmira
PJ Laidley - Keystone College to Oneonta
JaVo Flowers Smith - Keystone College to Oneonta
Amun-Ra Collins - Buena Vista to Nebraska Wesleyan
Ryan Grande - Cal Lutheran to Nebraska Wesleyan
Ken Thomas - Albion to North Central
Fred Garland - Albion to Trine
Cortez Garland - Albion to Trine
Bo Oranye - Amherst to Hartford
Mark Asare - Southern Maine to Oglethorpe
James Beckwith - Emerson to TCNJ
Transferring from scholarship level to D3:
Christian Stanislav - D2 Northwest Missouri State to Buena Vista
Patrick Renane - D2 Chaminade to Cal Lutheran
Trip Riemersma - D2 Saginaw Valley to Calvin
CJ Jones - D1 Boston U. to Claremont Mudd Scripps
Quinn Pemberton - D1 Boston College (walk-on) to Elmhurst
Luke Yoder - D1 North Dakota State to Illinois Wesleyan
Tommy O'Neil - D1 Harvard to Johns Hopkins
Brandon Upshaw - D1 FDU (walk-on) to Kean
Mykel Derring - D1 Merrimack to Nichols
Trey Brooks - D2 Lake Erie to North Park
Emmanuel Onuama - D1 Columbia to NYU
Konrad Kiszka - D1 Princeton to NYU
Mike Robinson - D2 San Francisco State to Rowan
Calvin Thomas - D2 Wilmington to Salisbury
Austin Murrow - D2 Central Missouri to Simpson
Max Schneider - D2 St. Rose to St. John Fisher
Adam Dudzinski - D2 St. Rose to St. Lawrence
Zac Johnson - D2 Augustana University to Wisconsin - River Falls
Jackson Watson - D1 Bowling Green (PWO) to Wisconsin - Stevens-Point
Caden Hoffman - D2 Concordia St Paul to Wisconsin - Stout
Jake Fisher - D1 Western Illinois (walk-on) to Wisconsin - Whitewater
Tyler Putney - D2 Daemon to Nazareth
Ashton Myles-Devore - D1 Louisville (walk-on) to MHB
Jaylan Hewitt - D1 Florida A&M (did not play) to Case Western
Justin Gielen - D1 Mt St. Mary's to Hood
C.J. Nwosu -- D2 Missouri S&T to North Park
Lenny Buddington -- D1 Lehigh (walk on) to St. Lawrence
Reed Kemp - D2 Missouri Western St to Maryville
Drew Irby - D2 Arkansas-Fort Smith to Greensboro
Jacob Morgan D2 Emory & Henry to Berry
Ethan Johnson D1 Colorado (walk on) to Messiah
Brenden Kelly D1 East Carolina (walk on) to NJCU
Danny Rodriguez D1 FDU to NJCU
In the transfer portal:
Bryan Adams - Elmira
Blake Lander - Whittier
Reportedly, or potentially, returning for another year to their current program:
Filip Bulatovic - Carthage
Josh Angle - Claremont Mudd Scripps
Jonathan Zapinski - Elmhurst
Ocean Johnson - Elmhurst
Tyler Dearman - Guilford
Ryan Clements - Hampden-Sydney
Sidney Thybulle - Johns Hopkins
Carson James - Johns Hopkins
Jeff Hunter - Keene State
Josiah Johnson - Mary Hardin Baylor
Collen Gurley - Mount Union
Spencer Freedman - NYU
Michael Savarino - NYU
Donyae Baylor-Carroll - PSU-Harrisburg (after a year off)
Daniel Cook - St. John Fisher
Bryce Hopkins - Univ. of Chicago
Dominic Dunn - Widener
Jalen Watkins - Arcadia
Aireus Raspberry - Johnson & Wales
Tommy Lotito - Manhattanville
Austin Westra - UW-Lacrosse
Jake Mazrimas - Illinois College
Emerson Halblieb - Bridgewater State
Dallas Patrick - Otterbein
Mitchell Kershner, C.J. Amsellem, and Matt Niemczura - Rochester
Brent Cox - Trine
Darrell Newsome - Mount Union
Done with college hoops despite a fifth year they could have used:
Levi Borchert - Oshkosh
Miles Mallory - RMC
Josh Talbert - RMC
John Lowther - WPI
Cole Frilling - CWRU
Zach Johnson - Vassar
Intentions unknown:
Greg Rowson - UMW (injured and did not play in 21-22, in addition to the COVID year, I believe he is not returning)
Jalen Echevarria - Endicott (I believe he is returning, but not confirmed)
Alex Carlisle - Wheaton MA - moving up to D2 Assumption for his grad year
https://www.caledonianrecord.com/sports/local/carlisle-brothers-find-new-hoop-homes-as-grad-transfers/article_aa69cb35-e7af-52c6-9a6b-ef476dc0a5f1.html
Mary Washington basketball instagram posts seem to indicate Rowson is returning, he's sitting with the team in the stands at a few fall sporting events.
Oswego's incoming class has three transfers: former Campbell University walk-on Jaden Kennedy, Kenny Lazo, who was a starter last year for D2 Molloy, and a D1 big man transfer, Elijah Hardison, who last played for St. Francis in 2021-22. Seemingly some more veteran help for an already-loaded, very experienced team. Oswego is clearly a top-five team nationally heading into the season. Not listed among the newcomers is Xander Fletcher, who looked like a potential impact first-year recruit who had committed to Oswego in the Spring.
Looks like Fletcher made a late switch to play at Cortland.
This year will be an all chips on the table year for Oswego. They will still be good going forward but a lot of 5th year talent on this year's squad.
Seems like a good pick-up for Cortland.
Definitely true for Oswego. They are one of many - Nichols (I think last year in D3 competition for them which makes them double all-in?), CMS, Case Western, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Elmhurst are some other teams that are just stacked with 5th-year talent and I'm sure feel pressure for a big run this year.
Speaking of Cortland...no word about Grunder? I thought he actually still had eligibility left.
Grunder has no eligibility left. He didn't play his first year but was still enrolled. I believe he took the covid year off which wouldn't give him an extra year of eligibility, but he was a HS class of 2017 graduate and had already taken the year after graduating off from enrolling. I am surprised I haven't seen his name pop up as an assistant coach somewhere yet as he's said he wants to get into coaching.
CWRU netted 7 transfers 5 we GR other two were SO
https://athletics.case.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster
https://www.bwyellowjackets.com/sports/mbkb/2022-23/bios/mazzeo_anthony_0o2b
https://sewaneetigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/colin-kahl/7779
https://dyusaints.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/caleb-chapman/2985 dii
https://generalssports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/richie-manigault/14536
https://athletics.wesleyan.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster/preston-maccoux/17509
https://famuathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jaylan-hewitt/3830
https://ritathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/andrew-fox/16723
Quote from: stlawus on October 10, 2023, 04:26:29 PM
Grunder has no eligibility left. He didn't play his first year but was still enrolled. I believe he took the covid year off which wouldn't give him an extra year of eligibility, but he was a HS class of 2017 graduate and had already taken the year after graduating off from enrolling. I am surprised I haven't seen his name pop up as an assistant coach somewhere yet as he's said he wants to get into coaching.
It sounds like he should have 1 year of eligibility left. The NCAA Division 3 rule is still 5 years (10 semesters / 15 quarters) of enrollment to play 4 seasons of the sport. The years he was not enrolled in school do not count against eligibility.
Quote from: ADL70 on October 16, 2023, 11:47:27 AM
CWRU netted 7 transfers 5 we GR other two were SO
https://athletics.case.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster
https://www.bwyellowjackets.com/sports/mbkb/2022-23/bios/mazzeo_anthony_0o2b
https://sewaneetigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/colin-kahl/7779
https://dyusaints.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/caleb-chapman/2985 dii
https://generalssports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/richie-manigault/14536
https://athletics.wesleyan.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster/preston-maccoux/17509
https://famuathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jaylan-hewitt/3830
https://ritathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/andrew-fox/16723
Unless I'm not tracking the bios correctly, this will be Jaylan Hewitt's fifth school in five years. The ultimate sampler platter of college basketball careers.
Quote from: KnightSlappy on October 16, 2023, 01:26:41 PM
Quote from: stlawus on October 10, 2023, 04:26:29 PM
Grunder has no eligibility left. He didn't play his first year but was still enrolled. I believe he took the covid year off which wouldn't give him an extra year of eligibility, but he was a HS class of 2017 graduate and had already taken the year after graduating off from enrolling. I am surprised I haven't seen his name pop up as an assistant coach somewhere yet as he's said he wants to get into coaching.
It sounds like he should have 1 year of eligibility left. The NCAA Division 3 rule is still 5 years (10 semesters / 15 quarters) of enrollment to play 4 seasons of the sport. The years he was not enrolled in school do not count against eligibility.
He was enrolled in 2018-2019 but did not play. He played in 19/20, 21/22 and 22/23. That's 4 eligible seasons in 5 years. Website says he was a member of the program in 20/21 so that could mean he was enrolled. In any case that means he's out of eligibility since it would 4 years of eligibility already.
Quote from: stlawus on October 16, 2023, 03:15:14 PM
Quote from: KnightSlappy on October 16, 2023, 01:26:41 PM
Quote from: stlawus on October 10, 2023, 04:26:29 PM
Grunder has no eligibility left. He didn't play his first year but was still enrolled. I believe he took the covid year off which wouldn't give him an extra year of eligibility, but he was a HS class of 2017 graduate and had already taken the year after graduating off from enrolling. I am surprised I haven't seen his name pop up as an assistant coach somewhere yet as he's said he wants to get into coaching.
It sounds like he should have 1 year of eligibility left. The NCAA Division 3 rule is still 5 years (10 semesters / 15 quarters) of enrollment to play 4 seasons of the sport. The years he was not enrolled in school do not count against eligibility.
He was enrolled in 2018-2019 but did not play. He played in 19/20, 21/22 and 22/23. That's 4 eligible seasons in 5 years. Website says he was a member of the program in 20/21 so that could mean he was enrolled. In any case that means he's out of eligibility since it would 4 years of eligibility already.
He played in the All-Star game - at this point, that still ends your eligibility.
Rowan posted its roster and they have a lot of new faces around to help out returning stars Noel and Ross, including Booty Butler, who has four years of D1 playing experience and was a starter for two different D1 programs (Austin Peay and NJIT), Mikey Robinson, previously noted here as an impact D2 transfer, and several veteran JUCO guys, led by Khalif Meares who seems like a real player. They will likely have a slew of 23-24 year old guys in the rotation this year.
https://umweagles.com/sports/mbkb/2023-24/roster
Mary Washington's roster is up. Greg Rowson is included. In addition to that, MWU also gets Albright's Zyon Grant as a grad student. He averaged 9.6/3.8 a game while starting 19 of 24 games. Lynchburg's Trey Pittman comes over after leading a poor Lynchburg team with 10.5/4.5, starting 12 of 24 games.
Dallas Patrick not listed on the Otterbein roster: https://otterbeincardinals.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
A bit of a surprise in the OAC, but they'll still be dangerous with the addition of Clement.
Three potentially impactful transfers I recently learned about. Ivy League Dartmouth big man Nate Ogbu will use his extra year at Dickinson College in the Centennial Conference. This is interesting as although he was a reserve player for Dartmouth he certainly had more of an impact with his time on the court then the much more heralded Ivy league reserve big men transfers at NYU and Hopkins. Also, CUNYAC front runner Baruch College has added Will Fredericks from RPI for his extra year, as well as big man Jack Shannon from D2 Post University.
Plattsburgh is listing Dylan Trombley as a Grad Student, 826 pts 310 rebounds in 3 seasons at SUNY Oneonta. Last played in 2021-22 was 2nd team all-conference, playing his final season close to home.
As rosters are coming out...
Utica gets their top two scorers back as grad students. Justice Brantley 15.6 pts/7.6 rebs and Thomas Morreale 13.6/5.5.
Quote from: ADL70 on October 16, 2023, 11:47:27 AM
CWRU netted 7 transfers 5 we GR other two were SO
https://athletics.case.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster
https://www.bwyellowjackets.com/sports/mbkb/2022-23/bios/mazzeo_anthony_0o2b
https://sewaneetigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/colin-kahl/7779
https://dyusaints.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/caleb-chapman/2985 dii
https://generalssports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/richie-manigault/14536
https://athletics.wesleyan.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster/preston-maccoux/17509
https://famuathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jaylan-hewitt/3830
https://ritathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/andrew-fox/16723
Case Western Reserve spotlighted...really is mind-blowing to have 5 grad transfers: https://www.d3hoops.com/columns/around-the-nation/2023-24/transfers-finding-a-home-in-uaa
Right now Grad students Mazzeo, Kahl, and Mannigault are the top three scorers for Case.
Very interesting article, slightly misleading headline as graduate transfers are rare in the UAA on average. The six other programs have averaged less than one graduate transfer in the three seasons (combined) since the Covid rule was enacted.
Calvin, Otterbein, Illinois Wesleyan (undergrad fifth year transfer) and many other liberal arts colleges have all had more or as many.
First big transfer news of 2024:
Macalester (D3) transfer Caleb Williams told @ThePortalReport that he has heard from the following programs in the portal:
Arkansas
Washington
UNC Wilmington
Western Kentucky
Iona
UW-Green Bay
UC Davis
Wyoming
Chattanooga
Furman
New Mexico State
Next season is, finally, the final year will a large volume of players will have an extra year of COVID eligibility. Here is an initial shot of a list of potential impact players who are listed as seniors on the 2024 roster, but could return for a fifth year, or transfer elsewhere. There are a lot of big names - but I'm sure plenty are missing. In addition to Caleb Williams, who already is attracting a lot of D1 interest, I would think D1 programs would have significant interest in Jahn Hines, Christian Parker, Logan Pearson and Joshua Van Gorp, among potentially a few others. I imagine soon after their teams' respective seasons end, we will start to hear about many of these players' intentions.
In the transfer portal:
Caleb Williams - Macalester
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
John Adams - WPI
Current intentions unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union
Jahn Hines - CNU
David Murray - Conn College
Ja'Zere Noel - Rowan
Ben Callahan Gold - Trinity (CT)
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic
Davidson Hubbard and Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran
Joshua Van Gorp - Central
Darry Moore - ETBU
Daniel Mbangue - RMC
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Logan Pearson - Platteville
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC
Jack Boyle - UT-Dallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons
Zach Sawyer - Anderson
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Sparks was honored at their last home game.
He's been at Oswego for 4 full hoop seasons and 5 years of classes.
DJ Campbell is also out of eligibility. This is his covid year.
Thanks for the updates. I'll remove those from the list as well as any others I've pegged wrong. And, I'm sure I'm missing plenty of consequential "seniors" who still have eligibility. As teams' seasons end we will see a lot more transfer news pop up.
Logan Pearson entered the portal and then came back. Maybe another year of exposure, probable WIAC POTY, and NCAA appearance will help him move up a level. He didn't have any of that last year. However, realizing how special this season is for him and Platteville, he may just decide to run it back with the Pioneers next year.
Just waiting for the not-so-shocking reveal when he lands at Case Western... ;)
"Transfer News. Reporting w/ @ThePortalReport:
Wisconsin-Stout Brody Fox has entered the transfer portal
Averaged 26.6 PPG. D3 No 2 PPG leader
6'6 guard who is entering as a graduate transfer"
https://twitter.com/jakelieberman2/status/1762654212020740304
Big news regarding Fox and a blow for the WIAC for sure. There is a 99 percent chance that Fox ends up at a D1 school, most likely a very high-level D1, on scholarship .... 6'6 elite athletes who can pour it on like Fox has for two years now against the best competition in D3 don't grow on trees. His brother plays at Minnesota so they might have an inside track, and I bet St. Thomas after a strong track record with D3 players also goes after him, but he's gonna get loads of offers.
In other transfer news, Dominican (D3) G Joshua West has entered the transfer portal, he tells
@ThePortalReport. The 6-3 sophomore averaged 17.6 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game. Also shot 41% from 3PT range on nearly 4 attempts per game.
A lot more transfer news will be coming down the pike I imagine as teams get eliminated from the tourney ...
I think we are going to see a SLEW of D3 guys looking to transfer in this the final COVID eligibility year. Moving the list forward and I'll keep adding names as I see them:
In the transfer portal (note that some of these players have more than one year of eligibility remaining):
Caleb Williams - Macalester
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout
Aaron Nrukmah - Worcester State
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
John Adams - WPI
Players of note whose intentions are unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union
Jahn Hines - CNU
David Murray - Conn College
Ja'Zere Noel - Rowan
Ben Callahan Gold - Trinity (CT)
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic
Davidson Hubbard and Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran
Joshua Van Gorp - Central
Darry Moore - ETBU
Daniel Mbangue - RMC
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Logan Pearson - Platteville
Ben Probst - Platteville
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC
Jack Boyle - UT-Dallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons
Zach Sawyer - Anderson
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
I would expect Caleb Williams to have as robust of a D1 recruitment as any D3 transfer has had - Duncan Robinson (whose recruitment outside of Michigan was relatively muted) included - not a lot of guys have tape of themselves scoring 40 against a Big 10 team.
Bowman at Oswego appears to be out of eligibility.
He played 27 games at St. Rose [D2]in 2019-20
He played 6 games at St. Rose [D2] in 2020-21 [team played 7]
He played 24 games at St. Rose [D2] in 2021-22
He played 29 games at Oswego in 2022-23
He played 29 games at Oswego in 2023-24
He was honored at Senior Day.
I'm Told there is a potential all-NESCAC addition to this list.
Moving the list forward as there are loads of updates. It seems like we are going to see a record number of guys transferring this year, and the D3 landscape could look dramatically different next season ...
The biggest names so far are Caleb Williams, Miles Barnstable, Brody Fox, and Aaron Nkrumah. There is a good chance all of those guys end up at the D1 level (and indeed, Williams, Fox and Nkrumah are already reporting a lot of of D1 interest).
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
In the transfer portal (note that some of these players have more than one year of eligibility remaining, * = all-region player)
Caleb Williams - Macalester*
Miles Barnstable - Wisconson Whitewater*
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout*
Aaron Nrukmah - Worcester State*
David Murray - Conn College*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic*
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
John Adams - WPI
Players of note whose intentions are unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Ben Callahan Gold - Trinity (CT)*
Davidson Hubbard and Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UT-Dallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Anderson*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Noel from Rowan has to be done. Graduated high school in NJ in 2017 (dude is 25 years old). Played juco one year, two years at two different D2 schools (one may have been a redshirt as I think he left the school in first semester), and two years at Rowan. Senior Marcellus Ross from Rowan should also be done as I know he graduated high school in NJ in 2019 and played one year at D2 level in 19-20.
One to add to the list of unknowns may be fist team all centennial conference guard Trevor Wall of Ursinus. Definitely has a year left due to COVID.
Whitman guard Jai Deshpande has entered the portal. 18 and 4 averages. 55% fgs and 40% from 3.
https://twitter.com/ThePortalReport/status/1765386058152477177?t=Pl2H9Ayp6vrvdvildb-3xA&s=19
NPU's Kolden VanLandingham in the portal. 18 and 4.5 a game
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1765435766212100238?t=PxIMms8ZXkIE__P6Irl0zg&s=19
Thanks. Continuing to update the list as news comes in. There are a LOT of really good players in the portal already, and surely many more to come after the tournament is over. Williams, Barnstable, Fox and Nrkumah are all near-locks for D1 scholarships. But that still leaves plenty of guys for a pretty loaded Case Western team next year :).
St. Elizabeth Jr. forward Tyerell Monroe enters the portal. 17.5 and 5.6 averages.
https://twitter.com/ThePortalReport/status/1765402952326615502?t=5HO0zrFXEmBYAW7XtkAdFg&s=19
A rough (and surely wrong) ranking of the transfers currently in the portal, in terms of most likely to end up at the highest-level program:
1. Caleb Williams, Macalester; 2. Brody Fox, Stout; 3. Aaron Nkmurah, Worcester State; 4. Miles Barnstable, Whitewater; 5. Connor Martin, St. Olaf; 6. Jai Desphande, Whitman; 7. Jikari Johnson, Ferrum; 8. Kolden VanLandingham, North Park; 9. Joshua West, Dominican; 10. Tyerell Monroe, St. Elizabeth's.
I put the over/under at 4.5 as the number of D1 scholarships for this group. But even several more than that wouldn't surprise me given how well D3 transfers performed this year. And of course, there are some big name players who will likely join the transfer portal in the coming weeks, which may push that number up further.
Quote from: nescac1 on March 07, 2024, 09:57:03 AMtransfers currently in the portal
What sort of line would you set for total D3 to D1? Including guys who aren't 'in the portal' yet? Maybe bumped up to 6.5?
On the Q-Cast, Logan Pearson confirms he's returning to Platteville for his 5th/Covid year.
https://x.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1765936329827787037?s=20
Now for the offseason question....does Jahn Hines return?
Quote from: CNU85 on March 09, 2024, 10:00:06 PMNow for the offseason question....does Jahn Hines return?
I'm not him, but why not? They came one shot away from the Final Four with mostly freshmen.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 10, 2024, 01:44:06 PMQuote from: CNU85 on March 09, 2024, 10:00:06 PMNow for the offseason question....does Jahn Hines return?
I'm not him, but why not? They came one shot away from the Final Four with mostly freshmen.
I'm thinking the same as you. They made it to the Elite 8 with mostly Freshmen. Most times there were at least 2 freshmen on the floor. There were games when I saw 5 on the floor. Time to recruit a big man or two, see what Hines decides, and make another run.
Moving master list forward (* = all-region player):
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)*
Transferring to D3:
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
In the transfer portal:
Caleb Williams - Macalester*
Miles Barnstable - Wisconson Whitewater*
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout*
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Aaron Nrukmah - Worcester State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic*
John Adams - WPI*
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurray
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Players of note whose intentions are unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Ben Callahan Gold - Trinity (CT)*
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UT-Dallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Anderson*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Cael Schmitt - Coe*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
https://twitter.com/peterlash_/status/1767952902176284694?t=5luRKecRl1PF_TZ-9X4Ttw&s=19
Peter Lash returning to Neb Wes. Big news!
John Adams - WPI headed to the portal.
https://twitter.com/JohnAdams_23/status/1768261222774812824?t=QxaUZFOfQYb74alsJMILAw&s=19
Thanks Greek that's a change from what I had heard - will update! Yet another potential high-level transfer in the portal, this year is going to blow away the record for most D3 to D1 transfers.
Justin Allen from Carnegie Mellon enters the transfer portal with two years eligibility remaining:
https://x.com/ThePortalReport/status/1768479837591625952?s=20
Seems like he's getting a lot of Ivy/Patriot type interest.
https://x.com/OctavioBrito20/status/1768814970597171407?s=20
Octavio Brito heads to the Portal!
Quote from: TUAngola on March 22, 2024, 06:37:59 PMQuote from: KnightSlappy on March 16, 2024, 11:18:41 PMThe rumor I heard this weekend was that Megnanglo would be coming back to Trine.
It's been confirmed that Megnanglo will be returning for a 5th year. That is great news! I have also heard that Cam Awls will probably be coming back as well. That means we'll be only losing 2 players from the championship roster for the 24-25 season, Cortez Garland and Brent Cox.
It's going to be another dogfight in the MIAA next season between Calvin, Hope and Trine. I think both Olivet and Adrian will be much better too.
https://x.com/davidsonh1221/status/1772071922903228859?s=20
Davidson Hubbard heads to the Portal.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 24, 2024, 09:27:28 PMhttps://x.com/davidsonh1221/status/1772071922903228859?s=20
Davidson Hubbard heads to the Portal.
From the way that post is worded, it looks like there's a chance he'll come back if the right opportunity doesn't present itself.
Agreed that Hubbard clearly is leaving open the possibility of returning. Four of HSC's top six guys are seniors with remaining eligibility (Elliot, Hardy, Brazil and Hubbard), so they have a pretty huge range in term of where they start next season. I assume that Brazil is returning for a fifth year, as HSC recently listed him as class of 25 in a press release.
Seems like Pearson is going to give the portal a try after all:
https://x.com/pdtscouting/status/1772361593554124834?s=46&t=f6sxXDdfYkdSSeU0Te9c9A
I suspect annually entering the portal will be pretty routine for the top players in the division going forward. Nothing wrong with checking out the offers available and it gives them leverage at their current school.
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 26, 2024, 10:05:10 AMI suspect annually entering the portal will be pretty routine for the top players in the division going forward. Nothing wrong with checking out the offers available and it gives them leverage at their current school.
What kind of leverage?
Quote from: y_jack_lok on March 27, 2024, 09:29:12 AMQuote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 26, 2024, 10:05:10 AMI suspect annually entering the portal will be pretty routine for the top players in the division going forward. Nothing wrong with checking out the offers available and it gives them leverage at their current school.
What kind of leverage?
There is and will be NIL money in d3, probably increasing going forward. It won't be in the millions like D1 stars get, but if a college kid can get 5 or 10k to keep playing some place, they're going to try, right?
The other thing is hires and budgets - some star might enter the portal to get more say in the next coach, if there's a change - or negotiate for better accommodations on the road. I'm not saying it's good or beneficial, but players are definitely going to take advantage of their positions.
If the Dartmouth case goes through, even d3 teams will be able to unionize and bargain, if they so choose - because that's entirely unrelated to athletic scholarships.
The recruiting battles are going to continue right through their playing years going forward. Players will get what they can get and the portal is definitely leverage.
^^^ Interesting. Thanks.
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1773737717358121044?t=L058dwkn42abMMs74FYZPA&s=19
Carnegie Mellon guard, Jack Stone, heading to NYU for his 5th/grad year.
Updated master list (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
In the transfer portal:
Caleb Williams - Macalester*
Miles Barnstable - Wisconson Whitewater*
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout*
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Aaron Nrukmah - Worcester State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic*
John Adams - WPI*
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurray
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Players of note whose intentions are unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Ben Callahan Gold - Trinity (CT)*
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UT-Dallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Cael Schmitt - Coe*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Quote from: nescac1 on April 04, 2024, 11:12:57 AMZach Sawyer - Anderson*
Sawyer was at Manchester not Anderson.
Add Skidmore FY point guard Charlie Fantom to the portal list. Might be able to make the jump to d2 with his size, but will be a great addition to any d3 program.
Updated master list (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
In the transfer portal:
Caleb Williams - Macalester*
Miles Barnstable - Wisconson Whitewater*
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout*
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Aaron Nrukmah - Worcester State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic*
John Adams - WPI*
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurray
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Kelton Coleman - UDallas
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU* (ROTY)
Ben Callahan-Gold -Trinity*
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Cael Schmitt - Coe*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Sounds like Jake Holtz of Whitworth will be coming back for a 5th year!
Go Bucs!
https://twitter.com/MichalowskiCBB/status/1780323588614037608?t=ES_z5hZI6PRQ7m0XFWa4YA&s=19
JHU's Fagbemi to the portal. Wow.
Brayden Fagbemi has received an offer from Central Arkansas.
https://twitter.com/BraydenFagbemi/status/1781049571226902532?t=JjMxod46dqf5B7NskUZIog&s=19
(Edited after Pearson withdrew from portal ....)
At this point, I'd be surprised if fewer than seven guys, and likely more, from this list were playing on D1 scholarships next year - quite the talent drain from D3. We'll see if a good number of transfers down helps to compensate; so far, there has been no word of any of significance, but it's still early.
D1 scholarships accepted: David Murray, Nick Anderson
At least one D1 offer to date: Brayden Fagbemi
Reportedly receiving significant D1 interest: Brody Fox, Caleb Williams, Miles Barnstable, Octavio Brito, Aaron Nkrumah, Justin Allen
That's already nine guys who have a very good chance at playing D1. Likely, there are a few more high-level guys in or entering the portal that we haven't yet heard about. Then there is another fairly large group in the portal where we haven't heard much, but there is certainly a reasonable chance of a low-level D1 entering the picture: Ben Callahan-Gold, Davidson Hubbard, Jai Deshpande, John Adams, Connor Martin, Stephen Akwiwu, Jason Ofcarcik, maybe a few others.
Maybe I'm wrong about Fagbemi, but I find it hard to believe he's going to give up a JHU degree for just any scholarship offer.
Fagbemi now has two D1 offers - Loyola (MD) and Central Arkansas. Central Arkansas doesn't sound so appealing, but considering that Josh Loeffler (at Loyola) was (I assume) the coach who initially recruited Fagbemi to JHU, and he'd get to move right down the road to play for a coach he knows well on a full D1 scholarship, I imagine that one may be hard to pass up.
I also saw word that Caleb Williams was visiting the University of Minnesota. That would be a massive step up for him, but considering he put 40 on them last year, I'm not shocked at the interest.
Updated master list updated as of 5/2 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Transferring to D3 schools:
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
In the transfer portal:
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout*
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic*
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Kelton Coleman - UDallas
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Ben Callahan-Gold -Trinity*
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Cael Schmitt - Coe*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
A quick glance at X shows Fontbonne freshman Charles Nelson and sophomore Ethan Chartrand in the portal. Those two along with Jaylen Swinney and Adam Painter should be able to find a home. Maybe others.
An encore season would be great, but I do not see that happening as nearly everyone on the roster has 2-3 years of eligibility left.
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin, will be returning for a 5th season.
Calvin is also bringing in 6-10 transfer James Felton from D2 Davenport - and before anyone freaks out about Clavin having 2 6-10 guys next year, Jalen Overway is out for next season following upcoming ACL surgery. The knights will have both of them the following season...
Quote from: nescac1 on April 04, 2024, 11:12:57 AMUpdated master list (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
In the transfer portal:
Caleb Williams - Macalester*
Miles Barnstable - Wisconson Whitewater*
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout*
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Aaron Nrukmah - Worcester State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic*
John Adams - WPI*
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurray
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Players of note whose intentions are unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Ben Callahan Gold - Trinity (CT)*
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UT-Dallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Cael Schmitt - Coe*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
what is the women's portal list for D3?
WPI's Donovan Sevilla will spend his last year at D2 Sonoma St
Ronk, unfortunately there is no D3 portal list that is made available to the general public (I have no idea how to see the full portal list, for any level, in fact, maybe only coaches have access?), so this info is gathered from a variety of sources (including on these boards). So there is no women's list, unless you want to curate one :).
Flying Dutch, SpringSt and WUPHF, thanks, I will update the master list accordingly. That's a huge bummer for Overway and Calvin, especially occurring towards the very end of his last game of the season, really bad break.
There's obviously no good time to tear your ACL, but at least it was at the end of the season instead of 10 games in.
Quote from: nescac1 on April 29, 2024, 08:38:47 AMRonk, unfortunately there is no D3 portal list that is made available to the general public (I have no idea how to see the full portal list, for any level, in fact, maybe only coaches have access?), so this info is gathered from a variety of sources (including on these boards). So there is no women's list, unless you want to curate one :).
Flying Dutch, SpringSt and WUPHF, thanks, I will update the master list accordingly. That's a huge bummer for Overway and Calvin, especially occurring towards the very end of his last game of the season, really bad break.
thanks - I was hoping that whoever provided the men's list could do the same for the women.
Former Whitewater star, Miles Barnstable, will be another D3 kid trying their hand at the D1 ranks. He is transferring to St Thomas.
It appears Caleb Williams was offered by Minnesota, and I'd be shocked if he did not end up there:
https://www.startribune.com/gophers-mens-basketball-caleb-williams-transfer-portal-macalester-ben-johnson/600362760/
If he accepts that offer, and Fagbemi accepts the Loyola offer, that will be up to six D3 to D1 transfers already (along with Barnstable, David David Murray, Nkrumah, and Nick Anderson). I assume a few more dominoes will fall from the Brody Fox, Octavio Brito, Jai Deshpande, Ben Callahan-Gold and Justin Allen group, whose transfer credentials are in the same ballpark as some of the guys who have already signed on or been offered.
Now confirmed - Caleb Williams to Minnesota.
And Fagbemi commits to Central Arkansas. Surprised he turned down Loyola! Either way, a very tough blow for JHU to lose the centerpiece of its team.
This portal thing isn't new, is it? I mean, players have always been able to transfer, right?
With NIL coming into play, I think everyone will be "in the portal" nearly every off-season chasing money.
When will the NCAA crack down? I could see a scenario where the NCAA will let you transfer once without "penalty." But, if you transfer again, you have to sit out a year. Or, you can only transfer once (dependent on circumstances).
Does anyone have any idea how big NIL is at this level? Are we talking 100s of dollars, a few thousands? Surely not 100s of thousands.
There were rumors that a player committed to Oshkosh but changed his mind and decided to play for Stevens Point because of NIL money. Honestly, I find that a little hard to believe for a couple hundred or thousand dollars.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on May 02, 2024, 10:14:15 AMThis portal thing isn't new, is it? I mean, players have always been able to transfer, right?
With NIL coming into play, I think everyone will be "in the portal" nearly every off-season chasing money.
When will the NCAA crack down? I could see a scenario where the NCAA will let you transfer once without "penalty." But, if you transfer again, you have to sit out a year. Or, you can only transfer once (dependent on circumstances).
Does anyone have any idea how big NIL is at this level? Are we talking 100s of dollars, a few thousands? Surely not 100s of thousands.
There were rumors that a player committed to Oshkosh but changed his mind and decided to play for Stevens Point because of NIL money. Honestly, I find that a little hard to believe for a couple hundred or thousand dollars.
Here's a twist that, for me, makes everything confusing...
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235877656/ncaa-dartmouth-mens-basketball-union-election-nlrb (https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235877656/ncaa-dartmouth-mens-basketball-union-election-nlrb)
The portal is new in a sense that there was never a centralized database for coaches to recruit transfers. Combine that with no sit out year and it's completely different than what it was before. The sit out rule was largely put into place to prevent this exact situation of the upper divisions using the lower divisions as a minor league.
I think NIL will sort itself out pretty soon simply through a lack of ROI. Schools are paying players 7 figures to not produce anything right now. It won't take long for this to result in fewer bags going to "mid" players. I also think it will result in schools making NIL deals contracts so they can't just bolt after one year lest they lose their money.
John Adams commits to The Citadel -- that's the seventh D3 to D1 transfer to date, with surely more to come ....
Jack Anderson is leaving Keystone to walk-on at Marquette. I assume some Nevada Smith connections there, might've paved the way for that one.
Updated master list updated as of 5/2 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
In the transfer portal:
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout*
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic*
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Kelton Coleman - UDallas
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Ben Callahan-Gold -Trinity*
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs, Marcus Beckett, Montell Cooper, and Wyatt Hockenberry - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
^^^ It's Will Coble -- only one "b" in his last name.
The updates are coming fast and furious. Andy Barba is transferring from Duquesne (where he did not play much, but I do believe he was a scholarship player as he received a number of D1 offers out of high school) to Case Western, a potentially big pickup for them. Barba seems to have a few years of eligibility left -- Case may be committed to this team-building approach going forward, even though it will become much trickier after there are no more COVID years for grad transfers.
Meanwhile, we are now up to ELEVEN D3 to D1 players. A few appear to be walk-ons, but I believe that the majority are scholarship players. The latest to announce: Wennersten from Ithaca to NJIT, and Schmidtt from Coe to Northern Iowa.
Quote from: y_jack_lok on May 02, 2024, 10:51:31 PM^^^ It's Will Coble -- only one "b" in his last name.
I see you've made the correction in your list. Thanks.
Quote from: y_jack_lok on May 04, 2024, 08:36:17 AMQuote from: y_jack_lok on May 02, 2024, 10:51:31 PM^^^ It's Will Coble -- only one "b" in his last name.
I see you've made the correction in your list. Thanks.
It does that great tenacity and skill to cobble together all of the information from multiple sources for our edification.
Quote from: nescac1 on May 03, 2024, 03:52:33 PMCase may be committed to this team-building approach going forward, even though it will become much trickier after there are no more COVID years for grad transfers.
Case Western Reserve only returns
two players from the rotation (down from five last season), I believe, though Drenth, Elam, and Thorburn have eligibility for a fifth season. I imagine the coaching staff is hitting the portal harder than ever.
It will be interesting in subsequent seasons as with the portal becoming such a part of life in NCAA basketball, might more and more freshmen, sophomores and juniors go looking to upgrade their playing time.
Trine is really loading up for its title defense, with, now, three double-digit scorers from other D3 programs (Greenamoyer, Cam Smith, and Montiel) signing on to join a solid returning core.
Quote from: WUPHF on May 05, 2024, 10:31:06 AMIt will be interesting in subsequent seasons as with the portal becoming such a part of life in NCAA basketball, might more and more freshmen, sophomores and juniors go looking to upgrade their playing time.
Assuming they qualify academically, I can see better players at lower tier schools also looking to upgrade the experience by moving to a "better" [academically or athletically] team.
https://twitter.com/PDTScouting/status/1788731514194153730?t=kSIDJXb6rZWVtOqpdTqAfA&s=19
D3 loses another one. Trinity's Ben Callahan-Gold commits to Binghamton.
Stevens Point picked up an interesting transfer. 6'8" Keith Hoffman from D2 West Florida. He went to SPASH (Stevens Point), but scored all of one point in his HS career, apparently. In fact, his Twitter page says he has no high school basketball experience. He didn't play basketball for a few years after high school. Then he attended Madison College, in Madison, WI, where he scored over 1,000 points in 2 seasons and earned JUCO All-American status. He earned a scholarship at West Florida where he played 12 minutes a game, averaged 3.2 ppg and 2.1 rpg, playing on the same team as ex-Skidmore stud Tautvydas Kupstas. At the very least, he'll add much needed depth to the post/forward position to a Point team that was regularly undersized.
https://twitter.com/LankySmooth15/status/1788651926734672040?t=6PZ2JvVebz2Yp33J8pNXgQ&s=19
Kupstas was a borderline AA kind of guy for Skidmore and second leading scorer at West Florida. Hoffman was a consistent rotation guy there who didn't do much in terms of stats. Presumably he'll be good for solid minutes at UWSP, play some defense at the very least.
https://www.telegram.com/story/sports/college/2024/05/09/after-dominating-at-d3-worcester-state-nkrumah-will-live-his-d1-dream-at-tennessee-state/73616643007/
Thanks for all the updates. Now up to thirteen (!) D3 to D1 transfers, and I think probably around 9-11 of them are getting scholarships. And a few more big names still on the board, led by Brody Fox, Justin Allen, Davidson Hubbard, and Octavio Brito.
Updated master list updated as of 5/10 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - UT Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
In the transfer portal:
Brody Fox - Wisconsin-Stout*
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic*
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Joshua West - Dominican
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
U of Dallas' talented freshman Kelton Coleman is headed to D2 Augustana (S.D.). He received All-SCAC Honorable Mention and was part of the All-Freshman team as well.
https://twitter.com/kel_ton05/status/1788962779929423971?t=uWvC3WAkO8Z19yXl0r8tmg&s=19
NESCAC1 - Jahn Hines announced he is returning to CNU.
Thanks CNU85. I'm pretty sure that Christian Parker is returning to Mount Union, as well, but haven't seen final confirmation anywhere. Seems safe to assume that he will be returning, so I'm adding both to the returning player bucket.
Looking at the 25 all-American players, right now I have only Pearson, Hines, Parker, Chicone, and Egezeke, as returning to D3 and healthy for next year (Overway also returning but seems likely out for the season). That's a pretty darn loaded pre-season all-American team, but after that it should be wide open.
Davidson Hubbard, Brody Fox, and Octavio Brito are all in the portal, although seeing Hubbard return would not shock me, and Joshua Van Gorp and Will Bartoszek I believe have eligibility and are the biggest names whose intentions I have listed as unknown.
Van Gorp is returning, per his social media as of March.
Regarding Will Bartoszek. For what it's worth, this article states, "after his final season at HSU..." That obviously makes me think he's not returning. No idea about grad programs, if they offer them.
https://hsuathletics.com/news/2024/4/4/mens-basketball-bartoszek-named-to-dave-campbells-non-di-all-texas-first-team.aspx
https://x.com/parkerswartz3/status/1791904466427326937?s=46&t=zoS57uOdd3tVFuTfqJsVdw
Huge pickup for Calvin's MBB. Parker Swartz, who will be a third-gen Knight, will transfer in after spending his freshman season at D2 Ohio Dominican. Coach Bill Sall heavily recruited Parker during his days at GR Northview. He's an athletic 6-7 and he'll arrive at the campus where his grandfather Ed Wiers was all All-MIAA basketball player in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as was his mother Stephanie Wiers in the mid-1990s on the Calvin women's squad. Parker will be a sophomore with three years of eligibility remaining.
Latest updates included. Some big winners so far, when you look at 5th years returning plus transfers of consequence coming in, include Trine, Calvin, Case Western, Platteville, Stevens Point, CNU, and Mount Union.
On the other hand, John Hopkins, Worcester State, Conn College, Catholic, Carnegie Mellon, UT-Dallas, Whitewater and WPI have all suffered big losses to the portal (either losing multiple players of note, or losing guys with multiple years of eligibility remaining). Hartford wins the most chaotic award for, it seems likely, a slew of players coming in and going out.
NYU and Case Western are the schools to watch as I expect both to potentially pick up more players in the portal. Plenty of big name players have yet to announce a destination, including Brody Fox, Octavio Brito, Jai Deshpande, Justin Allen, and Davidson Hubbard, all of whom seem like D1 transfer possibilities.
Updated master list updated as of 5/10 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - UT Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
In the transfer portal:
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent*
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Phill Dotson III - Rhodes
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
I believe that The Citadel is the first D1 school to ever take two high-profile D3 transfers in one year - John Adams and Brody Fox. Both guys have a similar profile, D3 all-Americans who clearly have D1 size, strength, and athletic ability, but who need work on their perimeter game. If they focus in the off-season on improving their outside shooting (only 16 combined 3 point makes for their careers, and neither is a great foul shooter for their position), they can make a big impact at that level.
6'6" forward Logan Scott has transferred from Vassar to Stevens as a grad student. Likely not a major scoring impact, but brings plenty of physicality, rebounding and defense. Quality player who adds depth to the Stevens front court with an opportunity to play alongside one of D3's top big men.
Great stuff, nescac1. We all appreciate the work you do.
Thanks Greek, appreciate that!
Mercyhurst, which just moved to D1, has signed two former Catholic players - Jesse Hafemeister and Tommy Kelly.
IWU's Ryan Sroka to Missouri S&T
https://twitter.com/MercuryEliteAAU/status/1796325137123578223?t=bQ7oG4COv-2NoFOgC3rQ6w&s=19
Although Adam Brazil is returning to Hampton Sydney, Hubbard, Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy are not returning.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 21, 2024, 09:12:02 AMAlthough Adam Brazil is returning to Hampton Sydney, Hubbard, Alex Elliott and Josiah Hardy are not returning.
Josiah Hardy will play his fifth year at Cairn: https://twitter.com/CairnMBB/status/1802113375813448169
Updated master list updated as of 6/21 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - UT Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
In the transfer portal:
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Jai Deshpande - Whitman*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent*
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Jaylan Green - Transylvania
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Alex Elliott - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
SR guard Luke Thorburn, who started all 28 games for CWRU last season, will transfer to JHU.
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1804228274005971284?t=nasC4o3yE3m7IS_GtDbHpQ&s=19
Dorian Davis from Mary Washington, who averaged 10.7 points in 26 games, transferring to Shenandoah (D3).
Kendall Cave from Earlham (https://goearlham.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/kendell-cave/5503) headed to UNC-Wilmington (https://uncwsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/kendell-cave/8583) (D1). Started 17 games as a freshman for the Quakers and averaged 11.3 points and 5.8 rebounds a game
Luke Ogle from Mary Baldwin (https://marybaldwinathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/luke-ogle/1974) going to Southwest Baptist (https://www.sbubearcats.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/luke-ogle/7497) (D2). Started 27 games as a sophomore averaging 9.6 points and 6.6 rebounds a game.
Jojo Anderson from Whitworth (https://whitworthpirates.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jojo-anderson/5875) is headed to Idaho (https://govandals.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jojo-anderson/8022) (D1). Started 23 games as a junior averaging 17.7 points a game.
Thanks. I've added these as well as a few others I've dug up over the past week. We are up to at least 21 D3-to-D1 transfers now (likely more given what is not known). Of those, I'd say at least 12, and as many as 17, are scholarship players. Although many of these are COVID transfers, eight are guys who would have eligibility (usually multiple years) left even without COVID, and this is going to be a new normal I suspect going forward, with how the portal now dominates college basketball recruiting. D3 coaches at the highest levels are going to have to spend a lot of time recruiting their own young superstar players to stick with the program when scholarship teams come calling, which was never a real concern before the last few seasons.
Updated master list updated as of 6/24 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
In the transfer portal:
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent*
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Alex Elliott - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on June 22, 2024, 03:41:46 PMSR guard Luke Thorburn, who started all 28 games for CWRU last season, will transfer to JHU.
https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1804228274005971284?t=nasC4o3yE3m7IS_GtDbHpQ&s=19
Thorburn averaged the fewest minutes of the eight players in the rotation. He was a senior.
Learned at a recent recruiting event that Muhlenberg all region guard Giovanni Rubino will be returning to Muhlenberg for his final year of eligibility. Great news for Mules fans.
Former Loyola (D1) guard Charlie Weisberg is transferring to Skidmore.
Big news for Keene State, Octavio Brito has decided to withdraw from the portal. Even with the massive loss of Jeff Hunter, Keene should be the pre-season favorite in the LEC:
https://www.keene.edu/news/stories/detail/owl-hoop-standout-entered-transfer-portal-but-returned-to-where-his-heart-legacy-reside/
The biggest (reported) D3 names remaining in the transfer portal are:
Davidson Hubbard - HSC
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park
Jai Deshpande - Whitman
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent
Jason Ofarcik - Nichols
According to his linked in profile Jai Despende second team d3hoops all region from Whitman
is doing a grad year at Brandeis. A second grad transfer to Brandeis is Rob Watson from Baldwin Wallace.
Updated master list updated as of 7/24 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
Tristan How - UVA (D1) to NYU
Xavier Allen - St. Joseph's LI to Oswego State
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols to CNU
In the transfer portal:
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent*
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Alex Elliott - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Wow - I'm out of the loop. Someone sent me a message about the Nichols to CNU transfer!
I need to pay better attention in the offseason!
Colby graduate and NJ native 6'5" wing Lucas Green will use his COVID year as a grad transfer at Stevens. Nice pick up for the Ducks.
Center seemed like the only question mark for CNU and with Ofarcik in the mix plus the big FY they had last year stepping up, it no longer is - CNU should (in my view) now be pre-season number one or two (along with Trine).
Green is definitely a nice pick-up for Stevens -- he can do a little bit of everything offensively at a B / B plus level, good size, can shoot, handle and pass the ball on the wing.
The big winners, so far, this offseason:
CNU - Jahn Hines stays, added Ofarcik, loaded rising soph class
NYU - added two D3 stars and three scholarship-level transfers plus have a few guys back as fifth years (Freedman is irreplaceable, but still, that's a lot of collective firepower)
Platteville - Pearson withdraws from portal, all their star fifth years are back
Mount Union - Parker stays, add a very impressive D2 transfer
Stevens Point - a nice class of transfers added to a stacked returning core
Yeshiva - nearly everyone back plus two D1 transfers added to the mix
Trine - loading up for the repeat with star transfers plus Mangnanglo back
Keene State - Brito withdraws from portal and I think Siow and Jean-Baptiste may be back as well (not sure on those two though)
John Carroll - everyone back plus added yet another scholarship-level transfer
Brandeis - Harris back from injury plus add a strong transfer class
Calvin had a stellar off-season too, but probably more than cancelled out by losing Overway due to injury, can't just fill in for a first-team all-American.
In light of those off-seasons, I'd say Trine, Platteville, John Carroll and CNU are clearly top-six teams, and the rest of that list should at least be in the top 25 conversation.
CNU also has another big coming in at 6'10" (or 6'11" depending on which website you want to believe). Of course, the unknown at this point is how well can he adjust to the college game, and how quickly?
I'm a bit familiar with the big guy coming in to CNU as he was high school teammates with a top recruit for Williams. He has a massive frame but looks a bit lumbering to me, and will probably need some time to adjust to the college game. I imagine he starts as the third big behind Ward and Ofcarcik, who are a lot more mobile.
A lot more size in d3 than I can ever remember. NESCAC always had some of this size and there was always the odd 6'9"/6'10" that fell through the cracks one way or another, as well as the 6'6" or bigger wing. Seems like these types of player profiles have increased 10 fold across the division over the last 15 years or so.
Quote from: nescac1 on July 24, 2024, 12:14:14 PMUpdated master list updated as of 7/24 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
Tristan How - UVA (D1) to NYU
Xavier Allen - St. Joseph's LI to Oswego State
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols to CNU
In the transfer portal:
Davidson Hubbard - HSC*
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent*
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Will Little - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Parker - Bryn Athyn
Jalen Cary - Bryn Athyn
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Tyerell Monroe - St. Elizabeth's
Ashton West - Clark Summit
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Alex Elliott - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Will Little, Jalen Parker, and Jalen Cary are all coming back to Bryn Athyn and are not in the portal anymore.
Tye-rell Monroe is supposed to be headed back to SEU as well. Ashton West is headed to Cairn.
Davidson Hubbard transfers to Baylor! Big time move for him ...
Updated master list updated as of 8/1 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Davidson Hubbard - HSC to Baylor (D1)*
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
Tristan How - UVA (D1) to NYU
Xavier Allen - St. Joseph's LI to Oswego State
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols to CNU
Ashton West - Clark Summit to Cairn
Christian McDaniel - Hamilton to Case Western
In the transfer portal:
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent*
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Chozen Amadi - Redlands
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Henry Herman - Hartford
Beluo Oranye - Hartford
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Broeckel - Wisconsin Lutheran*
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Alex Elliott - HSC
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Just FYI, Central has a MBB roster up without Van Gorp on it. Doesn't mean anything for sure, but it's notable at this point.
Have a transfer in from a different sport. Dan Anderson formerly of D1 Denver lacrosse is heading to Canton to play for St. Lawrence this upcoming season.
Updated master list updated as of 8/1 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Davidson Hubbard - HSC to Baylor (D1)*
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent to Newman (D2)*
Henry Herman - Hartford to Franklin Pierce (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
Tristan How - UVA (D1) to NYU
Xavier Allen - St. Joseph's LI to Oswego State
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols to CNU
Ashton West - Clark Summit to Cairn
Christian McDaniel - Hamilton to Case Western
Dominic Martinelli - St. Thomas (D1) to UChicago
Elias Rodl - St. Anselm's (D2) to Brandeis
Simon Weisserman - Macalester to Elmhurst
Dylan Engler - NW Nazarene (D2) to Elmhurst
Ryan Isaacson - Merrimack (D1) to Elmhurst
Beluo Oranye - Hartford (formerly Amherst) to Johns Hopkins
Wade Jackson - Belmont Abbey (D2) to Case Western
Nick Farrar - UNCW (D1) to Guilford
Cole Callaway - Newbury (D2) to Lynchburg
Jake Hlywiak - Adelphi (D2) to Redlands
Chris Carter - Kansas (D1, walk-on) to Redlands
In the transfer portal:
Kolden VanLandingham - North Park*
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon (may be returning to CMU)
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Alex Elliott - HSC
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Tim Restall, Brian Geitner, and Gavin Greene - WNEC
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Mason Jean Baptiste and Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Ryan Broeckel*, Jacob Stoltz, Grayson Goetz, Jacob Hefle and AJ Vos - Wisconsin Lutheran
Will Bartoszek - Hardin-Simmons, has shown up on the early 2024-2025 roster.
https://hsuathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
The top two, Bartoszek and Brewer return. Interestingly, the other 3 starters, all underclassmen, are not on the roster.
Quote from: nescac1 on July 26, 2024, 01:38:46 PMI'm a bit familiar with the big guy coming in to CNU as he was high school teammates with a top recruit for Williams. He has a massive frame but looks a bit lumbering to me, and will probably need some time to adjust to the college game. I imagine he starts as the third big behind Ward and Ofcarcik, who are a lot more mobile.
I just noticed today that CNU has another recruit listed at 6'11". So now I'm wondering which one you are mentioning.
Luka Matic. His teammate Aidan Yates, who was regional POTY, is heading to Williams. Matic has an absolutely massive frame.
Thanks NESCAC1. Luka is the guy I just found out about yesterday. Apparently, there is another big guy coming in as well (6'10"). Of course, we will see who showed up for Freshmen move in day this past weekend.
Usually I find info about recruits on X. I spotted the info on Luka on Instagram which I rarely use.
Nick Farrar is transferring to Guilford. He was a solid D1 contributor at several programs, most recently a very good UNCW team. I imagine he will make a major impact in ODAC and really help replace some of Guilford's major losses.
Interesting about Farrar. Looking at stats and rosters. In 21-22 he played at College of Charleston. You can find his stats, you see him in team photo, but he is not listed on the roster. When you go to stats and click on his name, his individual game stats show as well as his pic. From there, you see a link to his bio, but you get the dreaded 404 error when selecting that link.
At UNCW, after the holiday break in the winter, his stats dropped significantly in his second year. He didn't play in 9 of the last 10 games. Injury?
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on August 05, 2024, 11:57:11 AMJust FYI, Central has a MBB roster up without Van Gorp on it. Doesn't mean anything for sure, but it's notable at this point.
Van Gorp is back on the roster as a 5th year player.
Rosters are rolling out, so this is the final end-of-summer update -- I'm sure we will learn of plenty of others as rosters are posted!
Updated master list updated as of 8/1 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Davidson Hubbard - HSC to Baylor (D1)*
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent to Newman (D2)*
Henry Herman - Hartford to Franklin Pierce (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
Tristan How - UVA (D1) to NYU
Xavier Allen - St. Joseph's LI to Oswego State
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols to CNU
Ashton West - Clark Summit to Cairn
Christian McDaniel - Hamilton to Case Western
Dominic Martinelli - St. Thomas (D1) to UChicago
Elias Rodl - St. Anselm's (D2) to Brandeis
Simon Weisserman - Macalester to Elmhurst
Dylan Engler - NW Nazarene (D2) to Elmhurst
Ryan Isaacson - Merrimack (D1) to Elmhurst
Beluo Oranye - Hartford (formerly Amherst) to Johns Hopkins
Wade Jackson - Belmont Abbey (D2) to Case Western
Nick Farrar - UNCW (D1) to Guilford
Cole Callaway - Newbury (D2) to Lynchburg
Jake Hlywiak - Adelphi (D2) to Redlands
Chris Carter - Kansas (D1, walk-on) to Redlands
Felix Kloman - Brown (D1) to Babson
Cole Kattan - Geneseo to Oswego
Billy Reyes - Malloy (D2) to Oswego
Easton Shanholzt - Mount Union to Marietta
Landry Palata - Bluefield State (D2) to Marietta
Max Pearcy - Lamar (D1, walk-on) to Marymount (VA)
Caleb McNeely - Mary Baldwin (D2) to Marymount (VA)
Riley Brooks - Northern Michigan (D2) to Carthage
Nathan Montgomery - Winona State (D2) to Carthage
Garrett Arnold Fort Lewis (D2) to Carthage
In the transfer portal:
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon (may be returning to CMU)
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Alex Elliott - HSC
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Ryan Broeckel*, Jacob Stoltz, Grayson Goetz, Jacob Hefle and AJ Vos - Wisconsin Lutheran
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Mason Jean Baptiste - Keene State
Jack Boyle - UDallas
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Incoming recruiting class for DIII Carthage College is impressive and includes 3 DII transfers ...
Riley Brooks (6-6), former Ripon star, from Northern Michigan.
Nathan Montgomery (6-6), a Watertown graduate, from Winona State.
Garrett Arnold (6-1) from Fort Lewis.
Taking a wild stab at the top dozen scholarship-level to D3 transfers to watch. Surely I'll miss some and some of these guys won't have a major impact, but I think a good number of them will be big time players this year:
1. Nick Farrar - Guilford
2. Felix Kloman - Babson
3. Wade Jackson - CWRU
4. Jamarr Talbert - Mount Union
5. James Felton - Calvin
6. Chris Carter - Redlands
7. Riley Brooks - Carthage
8. Keith Hoffman - Stevens Point
9. Dominic Martinelli - UChicago
10. Andy Barber - CWRU
11. Luke Cronin - Yeshiva
12. Hamilton Campbell - HSU
I was bored and checking rosters and at a glance, I think we are trending towards having significantly more sophomore and junior transfers than before.
For example, Buena Vista has three on the roster. Also, the Beavers return their top two scorers as graduate students.
https://bvuathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
Another example is Cornell College. The Rams brings in 2-3 undergraduate transfers according to the roster.
https://cornellrams.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
A d3 to d1 transfer that I missed earlier in the summer:
https://richmondspiders.com/news/2024/6/6/mens-basketball-spiders-add-2-time-all-odac-selection-jack-d-entremont.aspx
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope - has transferred to NAIA Cornerstone for his 5th season
In August Peter Lash (NWU) announced he's out for the season due to an injury.
https://twitter.com/peterlash_/status/1825209174864859524?t=1v0RiPMxluhVjR9hWkw_fQ&s=19
Today he announced he's entering the transfer portal
https://twitter.com/peterlash_/status/1838598086693708175?t=65wY0GFDZJKWrsmWWP3pfw&s=19
Wow, even after losing Jeff Hunter to graduation, Keene really looks loaded. All-American Brito, plus the returning LEC ROTY, and two veteran fifth-year seniors who have been multi-year starters are joined by some real size in the FY class and five transfers, several of whom should be instant impact players:
https://keeneowls.com/sports/mbball/roster?sort=class
Blakey played as a FY at HSC and be Siow give Keene two lightning fast guards who can terrorize opposing ballhandlers. And Shettles shot the lights out at Coast Guard where he was an all league player last year. Keene is two deep with high level talent at every perimeter spot. They will have guards off the bench who would start almost anywhere. If several of the four 6'8 plus guys on the roster can give solid center play they shoud be a top ten team for sure.
Alex Stoddard is enrolled in grad school at Babson. While I can't confirm that he'll be on the basketball roster (not yet released) it seems likely (and I'm trying to double-source my mole). He's also got a strong start as a music producer so it should be a win-win for the young man at a business school.
He'll be in a logjam for the wing shooter position, but I can see 15-20 minutes per game depending on if his shot is dropping. Not likely to have the impact that Baxter had as a grad xfer last year.
And credit to Nescac1 who was on this rumor earlier this summer.
As of the end of the summer Alex was planning on playing and was on the team.
He is a great addition as an off-ball threat for Babson if he remains at full health. He was understandably VERY rusty at the start of the season after an extremely long layoff from hoops, but was more and more impactful as the season went along. He can get his shot off (due to size and insanely quick release) anytime he wants, no matter how tightly guarded, and when he is feeling it can really pour it on. He's also effective as a back-door cutter. Over his last 13 games against a very tough slate of competition (including three NCAA games and Trinity twice) he shot 43 percent from 3 which was in line with his career average. He should be very effective playing off Nate Amado and big-time transfer Felix Kloman.
Quote from: nescac1 on October 09, 2024, 09:27:26 AMHe is a great addition as an off-ball threat for Babson if he remains at full health. He was understandably VERY rusty at the start of the season after an extremely long layoff from hoops, but was more and more impactful as the season went along. He can get his shot off (due to size and insanely quick release) anytime he wants, no matter how tightly guarded, and when he is feeling it can really pour it on. He's also effective as a back-door cutter. Over his last 13 games against a very tough slate of competition (including three NCAA games and Trinity twice) he shot 43 percent from 3 which was in line with his career average. He should be very effective playing off Nate Amado and big-time transfer Felix Kloman.
I agree 100% with his skill set you've described it. But the Williams website lists his career 3 pct. at .352. How is that close to 43 percent? What am I missing?
You aren't missing anything, admittedly I'm extrapolating a bit and didn't phrase exactly right. His first year (like most guys) he struggled to find the range. But he was shooting 51 percent from deep as a soph when he got injured. And he shot poorly in his first semester back from essentially a year-and-a-half injury layoff before getting back in his natural groove. I think you can pencil him in for around 40 percent or higher from 3 if he's healthy and in a good situation. His release is so picture-perfect that it always FEELS like it's gonna go in :). He's streaky for sure, but he's also gonna have some games where he goes off for 5-7 threes including with dudes draped all over them.
Babson roster is out. Stoddard isn't on it. I'll note that it looks like they just copied the roster from last year and left off the two players not returning so he still could very much be on the final updated one. Doubt Babson would only carry 12 players.
The Babson roster does not list any incoming players. Just returning vets.
Quote from: BaboNation on October 09, 2024, 10:40:49 AMI agree 100% with his skill set you've described it. But the Williams website lists his career 3 pct. at .352. How is that close to 43 percent? What am I missing?
I have his last 13 games shooting 29/74 which is 39.19%
https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/marquette/2024/10/14/marquette-walk-on-jack-anderson-played-at-division-3-keystone-college/75560968007/?tbref=hp
Nice article on Jack Anderson, formerly of Keystone, who walked on at Marquette.
Cal Lutheran's roster is up. Looks like nearly everyone returns except Brock Susko, who's headed to NYU. That means 4 starters return from a 15-1 1st place conference team, including returning seniors Griffitts, Lewis and Davis.
https://clusports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/2024-25
Tahmeen Dupree has landed on the St Joseph's CT roster. He's now played for the best program in three different D3 New England conferences (Keene, Nichols, St Joe's), which has to be some sort of record. A very talented player, but of course not a great sign that he left his last two teams mid-season ...
https://guilfordquakers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
Guilford gets Kalamazoo's Bobby Samples as a grad transfer. He started 24 of 25 games last year. The Quakers also get Berry's Chase Ellis.
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Rosters are rolling out, so this is the final end-of-summer update -- I'm sure we will learn of plenty of others as rosters are posted!
Updated master list updated as of 8/1 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Davidson Hubbard - HSC to Baylor (D1)*
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent to Newman (D2)*
Henry Herman - Hartford to Franklin Pierce (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
Tristan How - UVA (D1) to NYU
Xavier Allen - St. Joseph's LI to Oswego State
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols to CNU
Ashton West - Clark Summit to Cairn
Christian McDaniel - Hamilton to Case Western
Dominic Martinelli - St. Thomas (D1) to UChicago
Elias Rodl - St. Anselm's (D2) to Brandeis
Simon Weisserman - Macalester to Elmhurst
Dylan Engler - NW Nazarene (D2) to Elmhurst
Ryan Isaacson - Merrimack (D1) to Elmhurst
Beluo Oranye - Hartford (formerly Amherst) to Johns Hopkins
Wade Jackson - Belmont Abbey (D2) to Case Western
Nick Farrar - UNCW (D1) to Guilford
Cole Callaway - Newbury (D2) to Lynchburg
Jake Hlywiak - Adelphi (D2) to Redlands
Chris Carter - Kansas (D1, walk-on) to Redlands
Felix Kloman - Brown (D1) to Babson
Cole Kattan - Geneseo to Oswego
Billy Reyes - Malloy (D2) to Oswego
Easton Shanholzt - Mount Union to Marietta
Landry Palata - Bluefield State (D2) to Marietta
Max Pearcy - Lamar (D1, walk-on) to Marymount (VA)
Caleb McNeely - Mary Baldwin (D2) to Marymount (VA)
Riley Brooks - Northern Michigan (D2) to Carthage
Nathan Montgomery - Winona State (D2) to Carthage
Garrett Arnold Fort Lewis (D2) to Carthage
In the transfer portal:
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon (may be returning to CMU)
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Alex Elliott - HSC
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Ryan Broeckel*, Jacob Stoltz, Grayson Goetz, Jacob Hefle and AJ Vos - Wisconsin Lutheran
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Mason Jean Baptiste - Keene State
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Nichols lost a bunch of players, mainly Jones, Derring and frosh Ofcarcik. But they get Darrell Hardge from Eastern Naz, led them in scoring at 16.7 ppg. They also added Javon Flowers-Smith who was a CSAC rookie of the year at Keystone (24 ppg) before transferring to Oneonta last year. In addition, Jarnel Snow-Guzman comes in from Franklin Pierce, started 30 of 40 games the last two seasons. Lastly, Nichols welcomes Ryan Savoy, who played four years at NJCU, averaged 9.1 and 6.7 last year.
https://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/mbkb/2024-25/roster
Carnegie Mellon roster is available. Justin Allen and RJ Holmes are both back.
Greek, you can add to your list Joe Joe Dubrul from Norwich to Randolph-Macon.
Quote from: y_jack_lok on October 19, 2024, 09:58:43 PMGreek, you can add to your list Joe Joe Dubrul from Norwich to Randolph-Macon.
Yeah, seems like a good pickup. Started 23 of 27 games and averaged over 9 ppg and 4 rpg. I don't know enough if he's going to start for RMC, though.
Early season check-in shows the most prominent D3 to D1 transfers killing it to date. On the one hand, with the COVID era extra eligibility over, there will be far fewer grad transfers. But on the other, with just how successful the D3 transfers over the past few seasons have been, I have a feeling a lot of D1 schools are going to be looking to poach star FY and Sophomore players from D3 teams.
Brody Fox, Miles Barnstable, Nick Anderson, and Ben Callahan-Gold are all starting and leading their respective teams in scoring. Brayden Fagbemi is a starting point guard. John Adams is starting at center (props to Citadel which is starting TWO D3 transfers ...). Aaron Nkrumah is second on his team in both scoring and minutes despite (for now) coming off the bench. Jojo Anderson, Triston Wennersten, and David Murray are not starting but appear to be regular rotation players. Not too shabby!
Of the most prominent D1 transfers, Davidson Hubbard and Caleb Williams (who both aimed VERY high landing at power programs) have yet to make any impact.
Going the other direction, D1 to D3 transfers Andy Barba, Tristan How, Bryce Lausier, Felix Kloman, and Nick Farrer all look poised to make big impacts this year. Several others likely in that category are on teams who have yet to play.
Starting this up again for next season ...
Unless the NCAA decides to permanently allow for a fifth year of eligibility, which is being discussed and would change the entire landscape of D3, there will be a MUCH smaller group of prominent seniors / grad students with another year of eligibility should they choose to use it. So far, all I can come up with is:
Toby Harris, Brandeis
Tristan How, NYU (grad student, but only played two years at UVA)
Luke Chicone, John Carroll (if he doesn't return this year, which would be surprising with his injury)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (not 100 percent sure, but he played only 7 games as a FY and I think he has an injury redshirt available)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU
Feel free to add others to the list!
How was a walk on at UVA so his clock started in 2020. This would be his last year I believe unless they change the rule.
Quote from: stlawus on January 04, 2025, 04:22:48 PMHow was a walk on at UVA so his clock started in 2020. This would be his last year I believe unless they change the rule.
Tristan How was not on the roster for 2020-2021 or 2021-2022.
Hard to know if the rosters were edited after the seasons were over.
if How redshirted in 2020-2021, might he have two more seasons of eligibility after 2024-2025?
Quote from: WUPHF on January 05, 2025, 04:05:19 PMQuote from: stlawus on January 04, 2025, 04:22:48 PMHow was a walk on at UVA so his clock started in 2020. This would be his last year I believe unless they change the rule.
Tristan How was not on the roster for 2020-2021 or 2021-2022.
Hard to know if the rosters were edited after the seasons were over.
if How redshirted in 2020-2021, might he have two more seasons of eligibility after 2024-2025?
He wasn't on the roster in 2020-2021 but he was enrolled. Redshirting during the covid year doesn't allow you to double up on the covid year eligibility. You don't gain an advantage that way. 2020-2021 simply didn't count as a participation year if you were on a roster. A lot of this is Calvin ball so you can't be fully sure. I suppose if he was on a roster in 2020-2021 and redshirted in 2021-2022 he would have one more year left which could very well be the case. He would have had to be on a roster though to get the 6 years to play 4 seasons qualifier.
Quote from: stlawus on January 05, 2025, 04:17:07 PMRedshirting during the covid year doesn't allow you to double up on the covid year eligibility. You don't gain an advantage that way. 2020-2021 simply didn't count as a participation year if you were on a roster.
I believe you, but I thought I saw that play out with a Division I player.
I guess we will find out next season.
I'm not sure where to best post this, but seems relevant here. Next season, D1 is going to a full 18 scholarships for basketball, which means that any walk-ons who aren't given money and still want to play might be looking for opportunities at the D3 level. Even without a 5th year, there may be an influx.
Starting this thread up again with the end of the regular season. The list will be MUCH smaller this year!
In the transfer portal:
Toby Harris, Brandeis (one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Nas Johnson, Arcadia (one year of eligibility)
Isaiah Amato, Whitman (I believe one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:
Tristan How, NYU (grad student, but only played two years at UVA)
Luke Chicone, John Carroll (injury)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (injury)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU (injury)
Malcolm Newman, Drew (injury)
Antuan Nesbit, Carthage (listed on roster but did not play this year, not sure why)
Nick Roper, IWU (injury)
Transferring to D3:
Quote from: nescac1 on March 03, 2025, 05:13:33 PMStarting this thread up again with the end of the regular season. The list will be MUCH smaller this year!
In the transfer portal:
Toby Harris, Brandeis (one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Nas Johnson, Arcadia (one year of eligibility)
Isaiah Amato, Whitman (I believe one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:
Tristan How, NYU (grad student, but only played two years at UVA)
Luke Chicone, John Carroll (injury)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (injury)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU (injury)
Malcolm Newman, Drew (injury)
Antuan Nesbit, Carthage (listed on roster but did not play this year, not sure why)
Nick Roper, IWU (injury)
Transferring to D3:
Also, Khai Champion(Tufts) did not play this year specifically so he would have 2 years of grad eligibility for wherever he ends up
So Khai is in the portal then? Not sure how he would have two years since he played the last three seasons before this one?
Zach Rosenthal, Roanoke (injury)
Updated with additions listed above as well as a few I forgot to add:
In the transfer portal:
Toby Harris, Brandeis (one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Nas Johnson, Arcadia (one year of eligibility)
Isaiah Amato, Whitman (I believe one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Peter Lash, NWU (one year)
Charlie Randall, Amherst (two years)
Khai Champion, Tufts (one year - maybe two?)
Sunny Parker, McMurray (three years)
Moustapha Diop, Randolph (two years)
Payton Thomsen, Bethel (one year)
Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:
Tristan How, NYU (grad student, but only played two years at UVA)
Luke Chicone, John Carroll (injury)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (injury)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU (injury)
Malcolm Newman, Drew (injury)
Antuan Nesbit, Carthage (listed on roster but did not play this year, not sure why)
Nick Roper, IWU (injury)
Zach Rosenthal, Roanoke (injury)
Transferring to D3:
Quote from: nescac1 on March 03, 2025, 06:51:07 PMSo Khai is in the portal then? Not sure how he would have two years since he played the last three seasons before this one?
He is going to Grad school so he would get the 5th year automatically
rdanie03, I thought (as of now, I realize that a change to potentially add a fifth year of eligibility is being discussed) that post-COVID, players only had four years of eligibility regardless of what level they play at - meaning if you have used three, like Champion, you have one year left to use at undergrad OR grad school. If Champion receives an extra (fifth) year by virtue of going to grad school, then every single player in D3 would likewise be able to use a fifth year of eligibility if they go to grad school. These rules are complex seem to change all the time, but that's my understanding as of now - I certainly could be mistaken.
You are not mistaken. Everyone that enrolled as a freshman in 2021-2022 is back under the pre-covid eligibility rules. 5th years are only granted if you received a medical redshirt, has nothing to do with your status as an undergrad or graduate student. 5 years to play 4 seasons.
I remember reading in January that the NCAA was discussing a proposal to expand the fifth year of eligibility and that it was to be voted on soon.
I did a quick Google search and the only update I found was a Jeff Goodman Tweet from late January:
@GoodmanHoops
There is no proposal for five-year eligibility that currently exists, an NCAA spokesperson told @TheFieldOf68.
And nothing is set to be voted on at any time in the near future.
I do believe with the roster rules changes, we will see more sophomore and junior transfers in Division III over the next 1-2 seasons.
There was a lot of misinformation over the permanent 5th year thing. One JuCo football player got a court ordered exemption and that somehow got spun into there being a blanket permanent 5 year eligibility rule.
There were a number of credible sources suggesting that the fifth year issue was going to be taken up by the NCAA. And the way the courts have forced the issues with the NCAA, I am surprised that they did not take it up.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/ovcsports.com/documents/2025/3/3/2024_25_All_OVC_Men_s_Basketball_Team.pdf
Congratulations to Aaron Nkrumah. Although the OVC is not a top tier Division One Conference it is a data point that there are some Division 3 players who can successfully make the jump to the D1 level.
Updating the list: Justin Allen once again (after withdrawing last year) is in the portal, and if he sticks, I expect he will end up at a minimum with a mid-major program. Toby Harris, the other really big name in the portal to date, is already earning very significant interest, including Loyola-Chicago, George Washington, Iona, Vermont, William & Mary, Furman, Asheville and Chattanooga.
In the transfer portal:
Toby Harris, Brandeis (one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Justin Allen, CMU (one year)
Nas Johnson, Arcadia (one year)
Isaiah Amato, Whitman (I believe one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Peter Lash, NWU (one year)
Charlie Randall, Amherst (two years)
Khai Champion, Tufts (one year - maybe two?)
Sunny Parker, McMurray (three years)
Moustapha Diop, Randolph (two years)
Payton Thomsen, Bethel (one year)
Livingston Cross, Penn College (one year)
Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:
Tristan How, NYU (grad student, but only played two years at UVA)
Luke Chicone, John Carroll (injury)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (injury)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU (injury)
Malcolm Newman, Drew (injury)
Antuan Nesbit, Carthage (listed on roster but did not play this year, not sure why)
Nick Roper, IWU (injury)
Zach Rosenthal, Roanoke (injury)
Transferring to D3:
Darren Rubin, Denison, has entered the portal. He was injured last season.
Ethan Edwards, Brandeis graduated a year early and entered the portal.
Quote from: nescac1 on September 03, 2024, 04:36:41 PMRosters are rolling out, so this is the final end-of-summer update -- I'm sure we will learn of plenty of others as rosters are posted!
Updated master list updated as of 8/1 (* = all region player)
Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:
David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice - Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Davidson Hubbard - HSC to Baylor (D1)*
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent to Newman (D2)*
Henry Herman - Hartford to Franklin Pierce (D2)
Transferring to D3 schools:
Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
Tristan How - UVA (D1) to NYU
Xavier Allen - St. Joseph's LI to Oswego State
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols to CNU
Ashton West - Clark Summit to Cairn
Christian McDaniel - Hamilton to Case Western
Dominic Martinelli - St. Thomas (D1) to UChicago
Elias Rodl - St. Anselm's (D2) to Brandeis
Simon Weisserman - Macalester to Elmhurst
Dylan Engler - NW Nazarene (D2) to Elmhurst
Ryan Isaacson - Merrimack (D1) to Elmhurst
Beluo Oranye - Hartford (formerly Amherst) to Johns Hopkins
Wade Jackson - Belmont Abbey (D2) to Case Western
Nick Farrar - UNCW (D1) to Guilford
Cole Callaway - Newbury (D2) to Lynchburg
Jake Hlywiak - Adelphi (D2) to Redlands
Chris Carter - Kansas (D1, walk-on) to Redlands
Felix Kloman - Brown (D1) to Babson
Cole Kattan - Geneseo to Oswego
Billy Reyes - Malloy (D2) to Oswego
Easton Shanholzt - Mount Union to Marietta
Landry Palata - Bluefield State (D2) to Marietta
Max Pearcy - Lamar (D1, walk-on) to Marymount (VA)
Caleb McNeely - Mary Baldwin (D2) to Marymount (VA)
Riley Brooks - Northern Michigan (D2) to Carthage
Nathan Montgomery - Winona State (D2) to Carthage
Garrett Arnold Fort Lewis (D2) to Carthage
In the transfer portal:
Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon (may be returning to CMU)
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Alex Elliott - HSC
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State
Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:
Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*
Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:
Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*
Returning for a COVID year to their current program:
Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Ryan Broeckel*, Jacob Stoltz, Grayson Goetz, Jacob Hefle and AJ Vos - Wisconsin Lutheran
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Mason Jean Baptiste - Keene State
Jack Boyle - UDallas
Great work on this list last year. Simply amazing!
Owen Varnado @OwenVarnado
Officially in the portal as a Grad Transfer, I can't wait to see what God has in store for me!
A few others in the portal:
EJ Matthews-Spratley (Stockton)
Darrius Bolden (Stevens Point)
Charles Nelson (Fontbonne)
With Nelson and Spratley joining Justin Allen, that's at least three of the top six returning D3 scorers looking to transfer up. Seems like the new normal in D3 ... of the top 30, 21 are seniors, so there will be massive turnover heading into next year.
Maybe a dumb question: how do you find out who is in the portal other than the athlete announcing it on X or Insta? The actual portal is only available to coaches, correct?
Not a dumb question! Yes purely internet research - posts here, social media, etc.
Plus with the NCAA JUCO lawsuit right now, the NCAA is allowing current seniors who've ever played at a JUCO to get one additional year at D1 next year, so there are definitely D3 guys who will qualify for this and will look to take advantage. Even if you're out of D3 eligibility, you still might be able to get one more year of basketball!
Quote from: HoopsDad34 on March 16, 2025, 09:38:02 AMMaybe a dumb question: how do you find out who is in the portal other than the athlete announcing it on X or Insta? The actual portal is only available to coaches, correct?
Verbal Commits only tracks d1 and d2 players in the portal, but does tell you the institution they transferred to even if it includes a d3. It's a useful resource once players start committing to programs.
Quote from: nescac1 on March 16, 2025, 08:49:05 AMA few others in the portal:
EJ Matthews-Spratley (Stockton)
Darrius Bolden (Stevens Point)
Charles Nelson (Fontbonne)
With Nelson and Spratley joining Justin Allen, that's at least three of the top six returning D3 scorers looking to transfer up. Seems like the new normal in D3 ... of the top 30, 21 are seniors, so there will be massive turnover heading into next year.
Bolden is one of those guys who qualify as a juco with 1 year of D1 eligibility left.
Updated full list ...
In the transfer portal:
Toby Harris, Brandeis (one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Justin Allen, CMU (one year)
Owen Varnado, Calvin (one year)
Nick Roper, IWU (one year)
Tye-Rell Monroe, St. Elizabeth's (one year, JUCO exception)
EJ Matthews-Spratley, Stockton (one year)
Darrius Bolden, Stevens Point (one year, JUCO exception)
Charles Nelson, Fontbonne (one year)
Nas Johnson, Arcadia (one year)
Isaiah Amato, Whitman (I believe one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Charlie Randall, Amherst (two years)
Khai Champion, Tufts (one year - maybe two?)
Sunny Parker, McMurray (three years)
Moustapha Diop, Randolph (two years)
Payton Thomsen, Bethel (one year)
Livingston Cross, Penn College (one year)
Darren Rubin, Denison (one year)
Ethan Edwards, Brandeis (one year)
DeAndre Vortes, Illinois Tech (one year)
Eli Beard, MHB (one year)
Tyrese Rho, Salem State (one year)
Hamilton Campbell, HSC (one year)
Brandon Kulakowski, Fredonia State (one year)
Playing a fifth year at current school:
Luke Chicone, John Carroll (injury redshirt)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU (injury)
Peter Lash, NWU (one year)
Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:
Tristan How, NYU (grad student, but only played two years at UVA - but may be out of eligibility)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (injury)
Malcolm Newman, Drew (injury)
Antuan Nesbit, Carthage (listed on roster but did not play this year, not sure why)
Zach Rosenthal, Roanoke (injury)
Transferring to D3:
Interestingly, Brayden Fagbemi is back in the portal after a pretty good season in Division I. Hard to imagine he returns to Division III.
It will be interesting to see if Nick Roper goes for a scholarship-level MBA or comparable after watching so many former teammates do the same with great success.
Tristan How was recognized on senior day after completing what is listed as a 12 month degree program, but that never seems to matter.
Tristan How was on the Not Even D2 podcast very recently and I did not get the impression he had any remaining eligibility.
You only get five years to play four, even if you don't play. Unless he graduated from UVA in three years, this is likely his last year of eligibility.
Hampden-Sydney's Hamilton Campbell is in the transfer portal.
https://x.com/yourboy_ham30/status/1902470565153112296?t=dd5IjvkWsaErdKvRYbGOyA&s=19
Another big name in the portal as a grad transfer: Nick Roper.
https://x.com/jakelieberman2/status/1902753423876931756?s=46&t=f6sxXDdfYkdSSeU0Te9c9A
https://x.com/peterlash_/status/1903914210956050751?t=sNLFT1nC8AC2gBou-Ker7w&s=19
Peter Lash, who sat out last year with an injury and entered the portal anyway, is returning to Neb Wes next season.
A few names I've seen in the portal recently:
Matthew Puodziukaitis, Saint Vincent (3 years)
Carter Reese, Ohio Northern (2 years)
Antonio Redding Jr., Delaware Valley (1 year)
Also in the portal:
Drew Moore, Trine (1 year)
One more: Dakota Sellers, UMW, (3 years).
Eau Claire sophomore
@grantpaetzold
Officially in the transfer portal with 2 years of eligibility left
https://x.com/ThePortalReport/status/1902432358730457190?t=Udka-nS0G-aNsEaUAKJUJQ&s=19
Eli Beard from UMHB in the portal, but I guess we really don't need to include guys who have an extra year because of the JUCO rule since they are only eligible for D1, correct?
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 28, 2025, 07:52:06 AMhttps://x.com/ThePortalReport/status/1902432358730457190?t=Udka-nS0G-aNsEaUAKJUJQ&s=19
Eli Beard from UMHB in the portal, but I guess we really don't need to include guys who have an extra year because of the JUCO rule since they are only eligible for D1, correct?
Why not include them? They are still D3 guys who are in the portal. Drew Moore from Trine is in the same situation - has a 5th year due to JUCO. I'm still unlcear on the rules around the JUCO extra year
At the D3 level, what is the goal of entering the portal? Is it to see if a D1 school is interested? Is it to let other D3 coaches know you want to play somewhere else? What message does it send to your current coach?
Or do you simply enter the portal because it's there and seemingly everyone is doing it?
The reason I ask is because I just looked at the stats of one of the players mentioned below. I'm not impressed just based on stats. Played less than half the games as a freshman. 2.9ppg. 1.4rpg. more turnovers than assists.
What's the purpose? I know the answer is that for every individual there is a different purpose/goal. I remember when a CNU player was in the portal. Really good player but I had a feeling no D1 school would be interested. And they were correct in staying away from him.
I'm more curious than anything else. Just pondering life at the D3 level.
Another big entry in the portal, Shane Regan from Wesleyan, who had a redshirt year due to an injury as a FY.
CNU85, folks have different agendas with entering the portal. But a lot of D3 players (in the double digits) transferred to D1 last year alone, and most of them performed really well -- some, like Mile Barnstable, so well that they are in the portal AGAIN looking, presumably, to move up the D1 chain. Now that D1 players no only get full scholarships but also may in some cases earn big NIL $$$, it's certainly more appealing than ever to try to make the move to D1. Of course, plenty have no chance to go D1 and may just be unhappy with their current program and want to make a move elsewhere at the non-scholarship level.
This year, I'd say Justin Allen, Toby Harris, Shane Regan, Owen Varnado, Nick Roper, EJ Matthews-Spratley, and Tye-Rell Monroe, plus maybe 1-2 others, are all very likely to end up with D1 offers, or at least, most of them surely will.
You're also going to have a bunch of guys in the portal because they went to JUCO and have D1 eligibility. I think Ty-Rell Monroe is in that boat. He can't play at d3 anymore, but if he can get a D1 offer, he can keep playing.
NIL does exist in D3, too. It's been on the down low and hard to get info on, but the only way to really know what you're worth is to take offers and have conversations. Even if you stay with the school you're at, it gives you leverage to negotiate something better.
A lot of the d3 guys in the portal are getting diplomas this spring and want to know what their grad school options looks like.
It's just the way things will work from now on. Maybe better to focus on the thousands and thousands of players perfectly content with their school and situation who sit this process out.
Thanks for the input. I can understand if someone feels they have a legit, or even a slight, chance at D1. Then go for it. NIL is real. Scholarships are real. But sometimes I come across someone in the portal and even amateur me knows they have no shot.
NIL in D3 is real. However, I know personally some of the deals made. It's hardly worth the "enter the portal to get a better deal at my existing school" category. I just don't see some of these local businesses entering a negotiation with a D3 athlete....."stay here and we will throw in an extra hoodie and a pair of shoes".
I still find it all interesting. My thoughts are that other than the elite d1 athletes who eventually turn professional, this entire NIL, portal concept is destroying the NCAA.
I keep hoping that the "fever" will break. That alumni (especially at the D3level) will finally see that the juice isn't wort the squeeze in terms of paying a kid in an attempt to lure him to come/stay at your alma mater. The team isn't markedly better. They didn't win more games or more trophies because of the money you spent. And your business isn't markedly better because the starting right guard tweeted a picture of himself eating "the gutbuster" at your restaurant.
He didn't stay on campus, or play any better when he did, because you paid $25 for a basketball that he autographed.
Maybe I'm the naive one, but if you want to see your money open the door of the college to a student, donate the money to the general scholarship fund.
I don't have enough confirmation to do any real reporting, but I'm fairly certain there have been a few instances in D3 where an NIL collective has come up with several thousand dollars to match a financial aid package offered at another school to keep a star player.
Most of the NIL deals are gift cards and hoodies, for sure - but there is money available when teams need it - and players don't get that unless they've got leverage.
I do think there will have to be some regulation at some point. I think you're going to see a model that looks like international soccer. Players can sign contracts with schools, but with release clauses that other schools can pay to steal them away. You'll also likely have one or two windows a year where players can switch teams.
It'll be less of a thing in D3, because the money is so much less and players can switch teams between semesters already anyway.
They're waiting for the lawsuits to work themselves out, so they know what can be mandated, in terms of eligibility, etc. In the end, I think D3 will largely be shielded - so long as there's a division with no rules, we'll be able to get by with what has always been the traditional d3 way of working (or something pretty close to it).
Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on March 28, 2025, 08:18:41 AMQuote from: Greek Tragedy on March 28, 2025, 07:52:06 AMhttps://x.com/ThePortalReport/status/1902432358730457190?t=Udka-nS0G-aNsEaUAKJUJQ&s=19
Eli Beard from UMHB in the portal, but I guess we really don't need to include guys who have an extra year because of the JUCO rule since they are only eligible for D1, correct?
Why not include them? They are still D3 guys who are in the portal. Drew Moore from Trine is in the same situation - has a 5th year due to JUCO. I'm still unlcear on the rules around the JUCO extra year
The only reason I suggest not including them is because there is no chance they are returning to their current team or transferring to another D3 school. Through the JUCO rule, the only path to an additional year is to play D1. So I just thought its a waste of time to list someone who is done with D3. Just my thoughts. I'm not running this board, so that's Neacac1's call.
Big update with lots of new additions. I've also divided up the outgoing transfer pool by my own (subjective, so feel free to disagree) guess regarding guys who could end up on a D1 scholarship of if not would be massive additions to any D3 program vs. all the rest of the transfers:
In the transfer portal (top-tier transfers, the majority will end up in D1):
Toby Harris, Brandeis (one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Justin Allen, CMU (one year)
Owen Varnado, Calvin (one year)
Nick Roper, IWU (one year)
Tye-Rell Monroe, St. Elizabeth's (one year, JUCO exception)
EJ Matthews-Spratley, Stockton (one year)
Charlie Randall, Amherst (two years)
Eli Beard, MHB (one year)
Tyrese Rho, Salem State (one year)
Brandon Kulakowski, Fredonia State (one year)
Kenneth Rogers, Westfield State (three years)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (one year)
Drew Moore, Trine (one year)
Antonio Redding Jr., Delaware Valley (one year)
Livingston Cross, Penn College (one year)
In the transfer portal (the rest)
Darrius Bolden, Stevens Point (one year, JUCO exception)
Payton Thomsen, Bethel (one year)
Charles Nelson, Fontbonne (one year)
Nas Johnson, Arcadia (one year)
Isaiah Amato, Whitman (I believe one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Khai Champion, Tufts (one year - maybe two?)
Sunny Parker, McMurray (three years)
Moustapha Diop, Randolph (two years)
Darren Rubin, Denison (one year)
Ethan Edwards, Brandeis (one year)
DeAndre Vortes, Illinois Tech (one year)
Hamilton Campbell, HSC (one year)
Andre Treadwell, Lewis and Clark (one year)
Nate Jacobson, Cornell College (one year)
Colt Donley, Covenant (two years)
Tyler Bergmans, Vermont-Lyndon (three years)
Jacob Morgan, Goucher (two years)
Anthony Davis, Knox (two years)
Jakorri Arnold, Warren Wilson (three years)
Dakota Sellers, Mary Washington (three years)
Matthew Puodziukaitis, Saint Vincent (three years)
Carter Reese, Ohio Northern (two years)
Grant Paetzold, Eau Clair (two years)
Cade Hogan, ETBU (three years)
Elijah Thomas, Carthage (one year)
KJ Williams, Carthage (one year)
Playing a fifth year at current school:
Luke Chicone, John Carroll (injury redshirt)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU (injury)
Peter Lash, NWU (one year)
Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:
Malcolm Newman, Drew (injury)
Antuan Nesbit, Carthage (listed on roster but did not play this year, not sure why)
Zach Rosenthal, Roanoke (injury)
Transferring to D3:
Quote from: nescac1 on Yesterday at 09:40:16 AMJamisen Young, UW-Parkside (three years)
UW-Parkside is a D2 school, not a D3 school.
Great list, though. Thanks for doing this!
Thanks Greg! And good catch, I'll delete that.
Quote from: CNU85 on March 28, 2025, 08:38:43 AMAt the D3 level, what is the goal of entering the portal? Is it to see if a D1 school is interested? Is it to let other D3 coaches know you want to play somewhere else? What message does it send to your current coach?
Or do you simply enter the portal because it's there and seemingly everyone is doing it?
The reason I ask is because I just looked at the stats of one of the players mentioned below. I'm not impressed just based on stats. Played less than half the games as a freshman. 2.9ppg. 1.4rpg. more turnovers than assists.
What's the purpose? I know the answer is that for every individual there is a different purpose/goal. I remember when a CNU player was in the portal. Really good player but I had a feeling no D1 school would be interested. And they were correct in staying away from him.
I'm more curious than anything else. Just pondering life at the D3 level.
Good questions all. I would note that the player you referenced was injured a good part of the year and is likely seeking to go to another D3 school would be my educated guess. You're not wrong that his stats seem hard to merit a move but....kids are kids.
Another D3 player in the graduate transfer portal is Lance Nelson a PG/SG from North Park. He was 2nd team All-Conference in the CCIW this season. Attended NPU for three years. I believe he attended U of Wisconsin his freshman year but didn't play basketball. Guess this means 1 year of eligibility left.
Lance Nelson is graduating from North Park in May. NPU is moving to the all-online format for a lot of its graduate programs, which means that the opportunity to finish one's athletic career as a graduate student will be significantly reduced going forward at NPU. Thus, Lance will be moving on to seek out a place to play his final season of eligibility as a grad student.