Transfers/Seniors with Remaining Eligibility

[Greek Tragedy]

Thanks for the clarification, Pat.

[nescac1]

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)

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

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.

[nescac1]

[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)

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

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.

[nescac1]

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 ...

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

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. 

[nescac1]

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 ...

[stlawus]

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.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

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.

[ronk]

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

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

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.

[thebear]

  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.

[WUPHF]

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/

[Bucket]

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.