NCAA Basketball: Top 25 impact transfer pickups from 2023 offseason

No. 12 Jesse Edwards (West Virginia)

Even following the announcement that Bob Huggins would be resigning from West Virginia, he has voiced that he will not be reentering the transfer portal, and will be staying with the Mountaineers. For a program that has seen some turmoil due to Huggins’s departure, this is a new exhale for them and their hopes for next season.

Edwards is entering his fifth season, and broke out last year with a double-double year of 14.5 points and 10.3 rebounds per game and also added in 2.7 blocks and 1.4 steals each night. He is a dominant force and had some great seasons for Syracuse, and he hopes to replicate that same success in the Big 12 with West Virginia.

He is a guy that West Virginia may wish they could have got him at a point when their program was a bit more stable. However, Edwards can be a player that can keep the program stable while they make a major adjustment after losing their head coach at a moments notice.

For a guy like him, it was interesting that Edwards was going to stay, and maybe not go back to Syracuse after the Starling move, but he stayed true to his decision and should be a star the second he steps on the floor for this team. Guys like him are again hard to come by, and Edwards will look to dominate the bigs of the Big 12 by storm in 2023-24.