WCC Basketball: Top 10 impact transfers for 2021-22 season

For whatever reason, WCC Basketball is often maligned by college basketball fans east of the Rockies. Sure, the games are late, and largely any national coverage is going to most likely focus on perennial top 5 team and new blood Gonzaga as they continually try to go wire-to-wire with an immaculate record.

And if you only check the box scores of games where mid-major schools compete with a team with 3-5 imminent NBA players, you won’t really glean much about the losing team other than the drubbing. But the WCC is good. And thanks to this year’s transfer portal they’re only going to get better. At least 7 transfers from power conference schools recommitted to a WCC member this offseason.

However, the beneficiaries were not simply the teams at the top. Santa Clara and San Francisco–who finished sixth and eighth last year respectively–both made a concise effort to recharter themselves to a competitive year. The winless-in-conference Portland Pilots did a major roster renovation with the delicate touch of new head coach Shantay Legans.

KenPom has ranked the WCC 8th in its conference rankings for the last three seasons. But with the bevy of new talent, it’s hard not to see the WCC as perhaps the best mid-major from top to bottom. Here are the guys who are going to elevate those late-night games this winter.