Transfers/Seniors with Remaining Eligibility

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Darius Welch, 6-7 Wing from Adrian has entered the portal.  2nd team All MIAA, averaged 15ppg and 6.3 rpg.

[bbfan44]

Olivier Rioux has entered the portal.  Im pretty sure he'd get some playing time at a D3 school. 

[CNU85]

My grandsons, ages 5 and 3, have just been accepted to Montverde Academy!

I hope I can get hoops tickets!!!

[nescac1]

Latest updates included ...

Transferring up from D3:

Ray Cuevas, Bowdoin (two years) to Brown


In the transfer portal (top-tier transfers, the majority will end up on D2/D1 scholarship):

Nikolas Avaliani, Sewanee (three years)
Fletcher Bigham, Sewanee (one year)
Riley Brooks, Carthage (one year)
Zay Brown, Monmouth (two years)
Chance Casenhiser, Mount Union (two years)
Dan Civello, Colby (two years)
Noah Cleveland, Illinois Wesleyan (three years)
Luke Ellspermann, Wabash (three years)
Kabrien Goss, Montclair (two years)
Dorian Glogovac, CalTech (three years)
Sam Grieger, Lacrosse (one year)
Parker Hovey, Hope (one year)
Tray Huguley, MUW (two years)
Shay John, Clark (two years)
Andre Klaver, Augustanta (three years)
Raphael Laurent, UMass Boston (two years)
Nasir Luna, Occidental (two years)
Tyler Mallory, Huntington College (one year)
Alex McCleery Brown, Occidental (two years)
Joe Okla, Worcester State (three years)
Raheim Orleans, Salem State (three years)
Jalen Overway, Calvin (one year)
Cameron Perkins, UMass-Boston (three years, including an injury year)
Kenneth Rogers, Westfield State (two years)
Dylan Watson, Conn College (one year)
Darrius Welch, Adrian (one year)
Jevon Yarbrough, Hood (one year)
Alex Zakheim, Brandeis (two years)


In the transfer portal (the rest)

Alex Andrews, Bethany (one year)
Jack Banks, Maine Maritime (one year)
Moussa Berete, Dean College (one year)
Aaron Brooks, Eastern Mennonite (one year)
Jahmir Brown, Bridgewater College (one year)
Noah Brumfield, Wheaton (IL) (one year)
Matthew Cadogan, Brandeis (one year)
Isaiah Carr, Eastern Mennonite (two years)
Kamerin Carter, Blackburn (one year)
Sam Ferge, UW-Lacrosse (two years)
Roel Figueroa, St. Joseph's CT) (two years)
Israel Hall, Piedmont (one year)
Kaelem Haskins, SUNY Morrisville (two years)
Jai Guerra-Howard, Marietta (two years)
Drew Hamilton, Maine Maritime (three years)
Kaelem Haskins, SUNY-Morrisville (two years)
Connor Heald, Husson (two years)
Corwin Holland, Penn State Brandywine (two years)
Dynell Jones, Bellhaven (one year)
Emmanuel Karkari-Mensah, Elmira College (two years)
Shaun Kelley, Augustana (one year)
Liech Kong, Goucher (two years)
Calen Laurich, Mount Union (one year)
Ty Lenhardt, Illinois College (one year)
Bristol Lewis, Platteville (one year)
Jamison Lynam, Arcadia (two years)
Devin McCaine, MUW (one year)
Andrew McCauley, Husson (two years)
AJ McClary, Marymount (VA) (two years)
Wesley McIntyre, VT State-Lyndon (one year)
Alec Mercer, Elmira College (two years)
Ben Miller, Hartford (three years)
DJ Miller, Ozarks (one year)
Bryan Moussako, NYU (one year)
Miles Parra, NWU (three years)
Aaron Pensel, Maine Maritime (three years)
Cam Pownall, Brockport (two years)
Quentin Pridgen, Clark (one year)
Tommy Reddick, Earlham (two years)
Roman Richards, UW-Eau Claire (three years)
Mikhali Roberts, Principia (one year)
Max Robertson, Manchester (two years)
Daniel Robinson, Bellhaven (two years)
Bryce Shoto, Illinois Tech (three years)
Troy Tinch, Mount Aloysius (one year)
Giulio Volonte, Emerson (one year)
Zein Wahdan, WNEC (two years)
Nolan Waldon, Washington College (two years)
Jamel Walker, Salem State (three years)
Jude Wilkins, Elmira (one year)
Jake Willems, Augustana (two years)
Tajh Williams, Warren Wilson (one year)


Transferring to D3 schools:

Chianti Ross, Sul Ross State (D2) to Rivier (one year)


Playing a fifth year at current school:


Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:

Jackson Cormier, Wesleyan (injury) (one year)
Alex Lee, Williams (injury) (one year)

[Ralph Turner]

I saw the item about Chianti (Ross) Clay going from Sul Ross State in remote Alpine Texas in the Big Bend portion of the state to Rivier in Nashua NH. Chianti is a Milwaukee native who started at Santa Monica College (2022-23), transferred to Arizona State (2024-25) then to SRSU (a former D3 member of the ASC) in 2025-26. He shot 38.1% behind the arc at SRSU. Tempe AZ to Alpine TX is basically a change in population density. Climates are reasonably similar, although Alpine is more than 4400 feet above sea level and about 10 degrees cooler just due to elevation. Going from Alpine TX to Nashua NH will be a BIG change.

[SpringSt7]

Kye Robinson -> portal

[nescac1]

I think Kye to the portal was just inevitable.  To me, he and Noah Cleveland are the two slam-dunk 100 percent D1 guys who will both get loads of appealing offers.  Overway, Grieger, Glogovac and maybe Yarbrough should also be very hot commodities as players (I would have put Cuevas in that group, but he is already off the board), and I'd be very surprised if they weren't playing D1 ball next year.  But Kye and Cleveland are at a different level. 

[SpringSt7]

I will push back on Robinson being clearly about everyone else just because he's only 6'2 and did a TON of his scoring at the free throw line. He is definitely a D1 guy and the second year is helpful but I don't think he is like clearly ahead of Overway or Glogovac. Same with Cleveland as a non shooter to be honest.

A great offseason project that maybe we should dig into would be to look back on which D3 to D1 transfers had the best success and see if there is any sort of predictor of success.

[D3BBALL]

Good for anyone if they want to try and get to the next level, but for most it doesn't work out and they become little fish in big oceans.
 
You win a national championship, and you have everyone coming back and you leave??? Go try and do it again.

Robinson is elite in D3, but he will not be at the next level. There will be too many players that are just as strong and mostly as quick or quicker and taller.  Won't be the same for him.

Have to respect Vetter, Okorougo, Lazarre for sticking around and trying to repeat, and they came very close.

Overway is going to have issues at the next level, another player IMO who is not suited for D1 even at Mid or lower levels. Those bigs are going to be quicker and stronger and just way more athletic than he is.

[D3BBALL]

I will push back on Robinson being clearly about everyone else just because he's only 6'2 and did a TON of his scoring at the free throw line. He is definitely a D1 guy and the second year is helpful but I don't think he is like clearly ahead of Overway or Glogovac. Same with Cleveland as a non shooter to be honest.

A great offseason project that maybe we should dig into would be to look back on which D3 to D1 transfers had the best success and see if there is any sort of predictor of success.

Great idea. Would be interesting to look at the number of Players that NESCAC1 puts on his list every year and see where they end up and how successful they are. My guess it is not going to be a great percentage where it works out.

[nescac1]

The guys who HAVE gotten D1 scholarships have generally fared very well.  Some have become really high level players and almost all have been solid contributors.  Just from recent years, some examples:

Aaron Nkmurah (Worcester State) was his conference POTY AND defensive POTY this year at Tennessee Tech
Miles Barnstable (Whitewater) had a great year at St. Thomas, then transferred to an even higher level program (Tulsa) where he played the most minutes and was a top-three scorer on a 30-8 team.
Tobias Harris (Brandeis) averaged 11.2 on 44/41/90 shooting at Iona this year. 
Justin Allen (Carnegie Mellon) averaged 14/4/2 on 48/25/83 splits this year for Green Bay
Brody Fox was Citadel's best player by far last year, leading them in scoring among other statistical categories, and John Adams also ended up starting nearly every game with more modest stats. 
AJ Rohosy was a starter for Stanford (!) this year, averaging 8 and 6. 

There are other examples as well, including the true outliers like Duncan Robinson and Cedric Coward who both ended up in the NBA of course, but if you can play, you can play.  If you are a D3 all-American level player, especially as an underclassman, the odds are you will be able to make major contributions at the D1 level.  Now, not every guy expecting to get a D1 offer gets snapped up, but these coaches are elite talent evaluators and they aren't offering a D3 guy unless they are confident they will be a major contributor right away. 

[D3BBALL]

The guys who HAVE gotten D1 scholarships have generally fared very well.  Some have become really high level players and almost all have been solid contributors.  Just from recent years, some examples:

Aaron Nkmurah (Worcester State) was his conference POTY AND defensive POTY this year at Tennessee Tech
Miles Barnstable (Whitewater) had a great year at St. Thomas, then transferred to an even higher level program (Tulsa) where he played the most minutes and was a top-three scorer on a 30-8 team.
Tobias Harris (Brandeis) averaged 11.2 on 44/41/90 shooting at Iona this year. 
Justin Allen (Carnegie Mellon) averaged 14/4/2 on 48/25/83 splits this year for Green Bay
Brody Fox was Citadel's best player by far last year, leading them in scoring among other statistical categories, and John Adams also ended up starting nearly every game with more modest stats. 
AJ Rohosy was a starter for Stanford (!) this year, averaging 8 and 6. 

There are other examples as well, including the true outliers like Duncan Robinson and Cedric Coward who both ended up in the NBA of course, but if you can play, you can play.  If you are a D3 all-American level player, especially as an underclassman, the odds are you will be able to make major contributions at the D1 level.  Now, not every guy expecting to get a D1 offer gets snapped up, but these coaches are elite talent evaluators and they aren't offering a D3 guy unless they are confident they will be a major contributor right away. 

The question is what overall percentage is that?
On your list above you have 29 players you think will get D1/scholarship interest
You have another 55 players that are transferring and I bet a number of these players think they are D2 or D1 players.
Last year you listed 25 players that could get d1 or D2 offers and another 40 who some think they should.
You list 10 above over a couple of years and I am sure there are more. But also look at the leagues and the teams records for most.
Most are good to very good D3 players, and good for them for trying but most are not going to be anywhere close to that at the next level.
Yes, there are the Duncan Robinson's, the other ones you list above and others that we can't think of. But IMO guessing that the overall percentage is not great that most of the players are going to be elite players at the next level. Some are going to elite academic schools, so in the end who cares, they come out with a degree and hopefully the college has a great alumni program that helps them get jobs.
Again, just my guess, in the end the percentage that want to go to the next level and actually get there and succeed at a high level is small, less than 10%. And we all may have different degrees of succeeding. Mine would be, go to a good academic school, play at least 15 minutes a game and 3rd be on a team that wins more than 55% of their games and has a chance to win the conference. All those are just not realistic for most of these players.

[BaboNation]

Ben Miller (already on nescac1 list)

11.8 ppg

Is transferring from Hartford to Colby

https://x.com/_benmiller1/status/2041248124732137966?s=61

[BaboNation]

Chris Ketchum (not on list)

8.8/5.2 (two years remaining)

transferring from Millikin to Elmhurst (staying in the CCIW)

https://x.com/chrisaketchum/status/2041206556155392364?s=61