Transfers/Seniors with Remaining Eligibility

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nescac1

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. 

Gregory Sager

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.
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nescac1

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. 

SpringSt7

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.

BaboNation

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.

WUPHF

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.

SpringSt7

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.

Gregory Sager

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.
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nescac1

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. 

Gregory Sager

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.
"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." -- George Orwell

Stretch4

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.

WUPHF

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

PoppersMacsLive

I have it on good source that Cole Frilling is not coming back to CWRU.

WUPHF

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!

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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
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