Basketball Transfer Portal '25

[Bearcats1232002]

And there you go! That's my opinion as well.

If we had a new coach it would be undertsandable. Unfortunately Wes is more than settled in. So there's definetly more between the lines here.

Miller has one year to turn this around I believe!

And I don't think he will turn it around. Maybe these players have a feeling that this will be Miller's last season and don't want to invest time in a sinking ship?

[sedz]

I am not advocating for recruiting him, but on the topic in another thread about UC recruiting guys who they played against...

Mike Sharavjamts, a lanky 6'9 junior forward from Mongolia, is portaling:
22-23 at Dayton
23-24 at San Francisco (NIT opponent)
24-25 at Utah (15 points over the two games this year)

7.2 points, 3.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists with underwhelming shooting percentages this season at Utah

I was just thinking about this. Sophomore Nils Machowski from UCF is in the portal. He made three triples against us in the Crown. 37% shooter for the season and 4.0 BPM. I wouldn't mind that.

Tyler Hendricks too. 6'6 sophomore wing who didn't play much in the regular season but saw a lot of action in the Crown and put up some impressive numbers, including 14 pts against us.

[GoBearcats31]

I am not advocating for recruiting him, but on the topic in another thread about UC recruiting guys who they played against...

Mike Sharavjamts, a lanky 6'9 junior forward from Mongolia, is portaling:
22-23 at Dayton
23-24 at San Francisco (NIT opponent)
24-25 at Utah (15 points over the two games this year)

7.2 points, 3.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists with underwhelming shooting percentages this season at Utah

[GoBearcats31]

I heard CWM say that in an interview with Hoard and Nelson.

UC literally has an article about it https://gobearcats.com/news/2025/3/4...a-bearcat.aspx

[London 'Cat]

Wasn't CJ's deal that he would redshirt this year so he could transfer and play a D1 year somewhere else next year? I thought I heard HC WM say that a couple of times.

I heard CWM say that in an interview with Hoard and Nelson.

[Geaux Juan]

.... I would also expect CJ Anthony to leave as a result.

Wasn't CJ's deal that he would redshirt this year so he could transfer and play a D1 year somewhere else next year? I thought I heard HC WM say that a couple of times.

[dmoney70]

I’m so tired of all of it. In the future when we welcome back former Bearcats, who will we welcome? 40 years ago I attended every home game of a 3-25 team that didn’t win a D1 game. Now, I don’t know.

Yeah. My love of college basketball is ruined. I didn't even watch the tournament. What's the point?

[dmoney70]

Of the 16 players on last years team, at most 6 of them will return. 4 however seems the number to bet on (Chad doesn't think Hickman will get a waiver and thinks Mitchell will transfer) and 2 of those 4 didn't play or barely played (Dzellat and McKinley). We had less roster turnover when Brannen "blew up" the team in his final season. But we somehow have to believe Wes has a plan to get us to the NCAA tournament next year.

I gave up on that hope a long time ago. Right now, until proven otherwise, we are just riding out the storm until the school can afford to buy him out.

[sedz]

Dontaie Allen, 6'6 G/F from Falmouth, KY, is apparently hitting the portal (and UC has tried recruiting him before):
- 2 seasons at Kentucky (41 combined games)
- 2 seasons at WKU (59 combined games)
- 1 season at Wyoming (32 games)

How are guys like this hitting the portal? Five seasons (including COVID year) and not once has he played fewer than 19 games, so there is no medical redshirt or anything.

So apparently Allen was ruled academically ineligible for some 2022 games at UK after he played in them. He had to sit out 7 games the following year at WKU while that was being sorted out. I haven't seen anything definitive, but my guess is he was granted an extra year due to the mixup.

[Rufus]

Apparently there are no rules anymore! No roster limit will be next to go. You can have as many players as you can afford and don't play them. You can pay to play or pay not to play keeping players that you don't want your rivals to obtain. It's the wild wild West out there right now.

[sedz]

Dontaie Allen, 6'6 G/F from Falmouth, KY, is apparently hitting the portal (and UC has tried recruiting him before):
- 2 seasons at Kentucky (41 combined games)
- 2 seasons at WKU (59 combined games)
- 1 season at Wyoming (32 games)

How are guys like this hitting the portal? Five seasons (including COVID year) and not once has he played fewer than 19 games, so there is no medical redshirt or anything.

No idea. I don't understand eligibility anymore.

[bearcatbret]

Josh Reed article: https://fanrecap.com/bearcats-forwar...uah36hHQque0PQ

[GoBearcats31]

Dontaie Allen, 6'6 G/F from Falmouth, KY, is apparently hitting the portal (and UC has tried recruiting him before):
- 2 seasons at Kentucky (41 combined games)
- 2 seasons at WKU (59 combined games)
- 1 season at Wyoming (32 games)

How are guys like this hitting the portal? Five seasons (including COVID year) and not once has he played fewer than 19 games, so there is no medical redshirt or anything.

[sedz]

UC also contacted McNeese State guard Sincere Parker, who averaged 12.2 points this year (15.9 points at SLU the year before), per Sam Kayser of 247 HS Hoops.

I would love to have a Sencire and a Sincere on the same roster.

Sincere is a high usage slasher. 2.9 BPM this year and 6.6 in 7 top 100 games. Last year he posted a ridiculous 7.8 BPM in 15 games at Saint Louis.

I'm always of the opinion that you take the best players available and then choose a scheme that fits the roster. 2 bigs, 5 wings, 4 guards, anything can work. Just get ballers.

[longtimefan]

Except in the NFL, draft picks stay around a few years, can develop and you get them cheap. In college they become free agents after 1 year, which takes away most of the benefit of "drafting". So it's more like the NFL if free agency was out of control.

This is more like the MLB model. At least NFL teams share revenue, in MLB the richest teams buy championships. At least in MLB you have some control through two years and a chance for arbitration until year 6. The model currently in college athletics is not sustainable. And while nobody seems to care, how many guys actually earn degrees these days?