Basketball Transfer Portal '25

[steveedwards]

Rayvon also leaving open the option to return per his IG post.

[BearKatz]

Sheer speculation on my part. He’s leaving because he has not realized his full potential. Whether that is his fault or a coaching fault remains to be seen. If he flourishes elsewhere, we will know that answer. If he is the same player elsewhere then we will also know that. Maybe he seeks more NIL money than UC is willing to pay.

As to why Miller is still UC’s coach, I can give you $9M+ reasons why - the money owed to him if UC changes coaches.

I had a feeling it's the $9M owed! If Wes fails this coming season, I believe UC will fire him!

[BearKatz]

Rayvon Griffith >>> Transfer Portal

That stinks! I was truly hoping Rayvon would progress into a fine player at UC.

[GoBearcats31]

I don't mind the loss of Rayvon in general, but he's local and it was really cool when he committed -- so view it from a different lens than if he was a random kid from like NJ or VA. I suppose he could come back, and I'd be happy if he returned. But thus far his resume/game tape has not lived up to the hype.

[BorisTheCat]

This will be a tourney or bust year for CWM

[Rufus]

I will say that maybe his early season injury may have affected his play all season and that he was one of the more active players on the team however many times when he tried to slash he would torn the ball over because he tried to do too much in his creating a shot and it is hard to slash and drive when you don't get the ball passed to ya from your guards. But since he's decided to go I do hope that Mitchel stays.

[sedz]

Right - he had a 0-11 streak of 3's through 4 games where we went 1-3 in them, and his two late three's against WVU turned his percentage into something respectable for conference play. 1-8 from three in the conference tourney. Sure he hit a couple, but 28% for 3 years is a big enough sample size, he wasn't a good shooter.

Skillings wasn't a good shooter, but the other guards were even worse. Day Day shot under 44% from two the last couple years on over 200 attempts. That's just as bad as 28% from three. Jizzle is also a 28% career three point shooter, and he's under 48% from two. Skillings is just over 50% from two over the last couple years. Again, not great, but enough to push his effective field goal percentage above the other guards. Add in his offensive rebounding and he was a much more efficient offensive player with the same usage rate as Day Day.

[sedz]

Rayvon Griffith >>> Transfer Portal

And there goes the only other slasher. Are we going to run the Princeton offense?

[BearKatz]

So far Portal Gains vs. Losses, I'd say we're in the Negative!

Skillings / Griffith vs. Harris / Kriisa, It's definetly a negative as far as points lost.

A team that desperately needs scoring! Maybe a gain on the defensive side.

[GoBearcats31]

Josh Reed >>> Transfer Portal

[sedz]

Josh Reed >>> Transfer Portal

Two of our top 3 BPM guys against top 100 competition are now gone. All of our experienced wing size is gone (only Abaev and Betsey for now). We're replacing 6'6 to 6'7 wings with 6'3 to 6'4 guards.

[GoBearcats31]

We're replacing 6'6 to 6'7 wings with 6'3 to 6'4 guards.

Obviously there are more transfers in forthcoming (and probably transfers out). Roster is far from finished.

[BearKatz]

Obviously there are more transfers in forthcoming (and probably transfers out). Roster is far from finished.

Reed is now gone, and out of all the transfers, I'll SMH at this one the most!

Do we not have enough Guards????? Watching some of our glaring needs from this past year, could we not use more PF & C?

Guys that could possibly muscle themselves around the basket, to get in position to rebound or score? Here's a few not currently committed, would you welcome any of these players?

Alvaro Folgueiras 6-9 / 215
Kennard Davis 6-6 / 215
AJ Storr 6-7 / 205

Jayden Quaintance 6-9 / 230
Efton Reid 7-0 / 250
Youssouf Singare 6-10 / 230

[GoBearcats31]

Dan Skillings >>> Transfer Portal

Skillings finishes his UC career 83 points shy of 1,000 points. He averaged 9.2 and 4.6 over three seasons, including 28.1% from three, 64.4% from FT, in exactly 100 games.

See his IG post here https://www.cincinnati.com/story/spo...l/82973029007/

Jeff Borzello, ESPN:

Cincinnati transfer Dan Skillings is drawing interest from Baylor, Florida, LSU, Alabama and others, source told ESPN. Entered the portal this morning, will also test the NBA draft waters. 6-foot-6 wing averaged 9.2 points this season. Repped by Scott Nichols of Rize Management and Kenny Jackson of Sky Limit Sports.

[kskenyon4]

Skillings wasn't a good shooter, but the other guards were even worse. Day Day shot under 44% from two the last couple years on over 200 attempts. That's just as bad as 28% from three. Jizzle is also a 28% career three point shooter, and he's under 48% from two. Skillings is just over 50% from two over the last couple years. Again, not great, but enough to push his effective field goal percentage above the other guards. Add in his offensive rebounding and he was a much more efficient offensive player with the same usage rate as Day Day.

Oh I agree we don't have shooters - and thats what we desperately need. You are comparing Skillings to what we have, and I am just saying I don't think he's going to be a big loss, because unless we can shoot better, we aren't going to be a top 25 team in the country. Dan has regressed and I wish him well but don't think he was going to be a part of a really good UC team. Jizzle could get better, and he needs to. I like Sencire for his defense, but there is no reason to be excited about next years team without a couple offensive adds. Losing Skillings doesn't change my outlook for UC next year, only thing that will is adding some shooting/offensive firepower beyond Abaev.