Big Ten Basketball: Each team’s best acquisition out of 2023 transfer portal

The Big Ten Conference got a whole lot better overall after another season in the transfer portal. Take a look at the overview of each team’s best acquisition out of the portal.

Big Ten basketball was full of surprises this past NCAA Tournament after earning eight bids to the Big Dance when March arrived. Now, they’ll look to do more damage as we take a look at how each team got better in the transfer portal. While the transfer portal has become a hot topic, so has the team’s ability to keep things together and avoid the portal altogether.

It creates a sort of intrigue of sorts in a game where team chemistry and experience are beginning to play a bigger role in deep runs in the NCAA Tournament.

However, one of the most intriguing things though, is always who didn’t gain any players out of the portal, as was the case in the ACC as well with the Duke Blue Devils.

The Michigan State Spartans were the lone team in the Big Ten that didn’t utilize the transfer portal this offseason. With just two departures to contend with, the bulk of their rotation returns led by A..J. Hoggard, Tyson Walker, Jaden Akins and Malik Hall with four freshmen in tow looking to make waves in the conference following fourth place finish in the conference standings in 2022-23.

The Spartans will certainly have their work cut out for them as the Northwestern Wildcats, Purdue Boilermakers, Indiana Hoosiers and a few others in the conference landscape went deep into the transfer portal to come out with a better squad than a season ago.

While Michigan State avoided the portal, every other team in the conference gained at least one new addition from the transfer portal. Take a look at Big Ten basketball and the transfer portal as we analyze each team’s best addition out of the portal.