NCAA Basketball: 15 teams that still need roster help after 2023 transfer portal deadline

Georgetown Hoyas

It’s been a bizarre offseason for the Hoyas in the sense that there was a ton of hype early on when they fired head coach Patrick Ewing and replaced him with Ed Cooley, who turned the Providence Friars into a good NCAA Basketball program. They were looking to be a player for a number of targets, including Hunter Dickinson of Michigan.

The Hoyas were viewed as an early contender for his services but in the end, they were an afterthought, as he ended up at Kansas. Dickinson was supposed to be the star attraction of the roster but without him, it’s looking fair bleak.

The team has landed four transfers this offseason but none of them were stars at their previous stops. Ishmael Massoud is a career 6.2 ppg scorer at both Wake Forest and Kansas State, while Jayden Epps averaged 9.5 ppg as a freshman at Illinois, mostly coming off the bench. Plus, there’s Roman Brumbaugh and Dontrez Styles, two unproved D-I players who do have a few years left of eligibility.

Unless some of these underclassmen have breakout campaigns, this group of Hoyas looks like a bottom-tier team in the Big East, which was what Cooley was supposed to bring them out of. They have to land a few newcomers in the next month and hopefully, they’ll have proven production they can bring to the table.