NCAA Basketball: Top 25 impact transfer pickups from 2023 offseason
By John Makuch
24. Jordan Dingle (St. John’s)
Scoring is tough to come by, especially in the tough Big East Conference, but St. John’s acquiring Jordan Dingle, who was second in the nation in scoring is a move that the Red Storm are very excited about.
The New York native Dingle played for Penn last season and finished as the player of the year after putting up 23.9 points per game as a junior. Dingle is just one move in the huge roster shift that St. John’s has undergone with Rick Pitino taking over, but Dingle’s scoring is almost unmatched in the entire nation.
What separates Dingle is his efficiency, he shot an absurd 46.4 percent from the field for the Quakers last season, and any team would want that level of shot selection and scoring ability on their squad. While the physicality of the Big East is much different than the Ivy League, being such an efficient player along with his ability to create shots will serve him well against some of the tough defenders in that conference.
Dingle makes a homecoming in his senior season, but he also now plays for a coach in Pitino that is looking to change the trajectory of the entire St. John’s program and to do that, you need your scorer, and Dingle looks to be that scorer for this unit.