NCAA Basketball: 10 teams that still need some help in 2023 transfer portal

Louisville Cardinals

After winning four total games, a good case can be made that you can never get enough transfers to rebuild the roster. So far, Louisville has only added one D-I transfer in Skyy Clark. And that happened in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament so this is a month ago.

Since then the program has been quiet. They’ve had transfers visit them, including former UMass guard RJ Luis recently. However, not much has been able to come from it. The biggest news involving them in the past couple of weeks is that El Ellis, the leading scorer for the Cardinals, entered the portal and is now set to play for the Arkansas Razorbacks.

To Coach Kenny Payne’s credit, he did land some big talent for next season that wasn’t via the transfer portal. Trentyn Flowers is a 6’8 guard capable of playing three different positions and as a five-star prospect, reclassified to play this upcoming season. Dennis Evans is a five-star big man that was a former Minnesota commit but opted to switch to the Cardinals.

Yet as talented as those guys may be, it’s going to be a fairly young roster with the projected starting point guard having just 12 career starts. Louisville needs to add a couple of veteran pieces in the backcourt or else be an improved – yet still bad team at the bottom of the ACC.