NCAA Basketball: Top 25 offseason team winners from 2023 transfer portal

2. Kansas Jayhawks

Incoming transfers: Hunter Dickinson, Arterio Morris, Nicolas Timberlake

Even Kansas and Coach Bill Self aren’t immune to the giving end of the transfer portal, having lost several players. Former five-star prospects MJ Rice and Ernest Udeh Jr. were among the departures. But the good news is that there was plenty of room to bring in some heavy hitters and they may have landed a trio of home runs.

The big name is Dickinson, an All-Big Ten center from Michigan that averaged 18.5 ppg and 9.0 rpg. He has several 30+ point performances and the difference between him and other big-name transfer pickups this offseason is that he’s a proven high-level power conference player, while others are hoping to match Dickinson’s production.

Kansas also may have landed one of the top freshmen that didn’t enter the NBA Draft in Morris. He’s a former five-star prospect that dealt with a number of veteran guards ahead of him on the Texas depth chart. He could easily be a national breakout star next to Dajuan Harris Jr. in the backcourt.

And the Jayhawks also brought in Timberlake, one of the best pure shooters from the portal. At Towson, the 6’4 guard averaged 17.7 ppg, while shooting 42% from three-point range. On paper, shooting is viewed as one of the main weaknesses on the Kansas roster so if Timberlake can help solve that, this team will once again be in contention to win it all.