Transfers/Seniors with Remaining Eligibility

[Gregory Sager]

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.)

[Greek Tragedy]

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".

[Gregory Sager]

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.

It's natural to shorten names, so if you give your newly-merged school a name that long you're just begging for it.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

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.

[WUPHF]

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.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

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."

[Gregory Sager]

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.

[Gregory Sager]

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".

[Greek Tragedy]

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)

[Gregory Sager]

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.

[nescac1]

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

[stlawus]

Thybulle's social media says he's returning

[nescac1]

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). 

[Gregory Sager]

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.

[SpringSt7]

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.