Atlantic 10 Basketball: 6 impact transfers to watch for 2022-23 season

Victor Bailey (George Mason Patriots)

Bailey is one of the more interesting X-factors among the potentially good teams in the league this year. He’s coming from a situation at Tennessee where he was hidden on the back end of a loaded backcourt to one at Mason where he’ll be asked to shoulder the heaviest load of his collegiate career.

In 2020-2021, before the talented duo of Zakai Zeigler and Kennedy Chandler joined the Volunteers, Bailey provided clear proof that he could thrive at an A10 type of level. That year (his first with the Vols after playing two seasons at Oregon), the lefty scorer started in 12 games and ended up averaging 10.9 points per contest on very efficient shooting splits (49.0% inside the arc, 33.8% outside of it, and 82.8% from the line).

Bailey is more of a natural scorer than he is a distributor, but with relative inexperience at the PG spot on the Mason roster after Xavier Johnson’s departure, he may very well see some time at the 1 this season besides starting at the 2. Either way, his minutes could very well break into the low 30’s per game and it’s difficult to imagine a world in which he isn’t at least the second most impactful player (likely behind big man Josh Oduro) on this deep Patriots roster.