With entering the NCAA Basketball transfer portal becoming a more popular option for unsatisfied collegiate athletes each year, the portal following this cut-short season now seems filled to the brim with talent poised to make some noise next season.
Sometimes things fail to play out the way we might expect. The NCAA tournament’s cancellation certainly taught us that this year, amongst other things such as ways to occupy oneself while self-isolating, the real importance behind washing your hands, or how boring the month of March truly is without the madness. For NCAA Basketball athletes, things fail to work out for them sometimes as well, often prompting them to search for new beginnings with new teams.
Without the NCAA tournament or even conference tournament at their dispose, most college basketball stars unhappy with their current situations jumped the gun and entered the NCAA trade portal this spring without hesitation, moving on from the unfinished season while looking for a fresh start elsewhere. Reaping its benefits last year, high-profile players such as Quentin Grimes, Omer Yurtseven, Kerry Blackshear Jr, and countless others all played well having found new homes during the 2019-2020 season.
Although most college basketball programs look first toward incoming freshmen as their primary option to help improve their teams, to disregard the myriad of players a part the transfer portal assembly seems increasingly unwise especially with its notable talent spike following this season’s premature ending. More often than one might realize, successful basketball programs often either ascend to greatness or fall just short based on either one player’s impactful presence or his detrimental absence. The transfer portal offers players such as this, primed for coaches to plug into their lineups, henceforth allowing them to fall onto the more prosperous side of this phenomenon.
Compiled with potential leaders as well as valuable bench pieces, the transfer portal can help nearly every program aiming to better themselves whether by a wide or minimal margin. Below are the best players amongst the pool able to play next season that still remain up for grabs.