AJ Storr continues career odyssey with latest landing spot in SEC

Even in the transfer portal era, AJ Storr’s career is unprecedently unique. The former three-star prospect began his career at St. John’s before blossoming into a star at Wisconsin in his sophomore season. Then, Storr sprung for a big-time payday at Kansas where he struggled coming off the bench for Bill Self. So, he re-entered the transfer portal searching for a fourth team in four years, and on Thursday he found it, committing to Chris Beard and the Ole Miss Rebels. 

Kansas transfer AJ Storr commits to Ole Miss

Not just four different programs, Storr will have played in four different conferences, the Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, and now the SEC, but his travels are even more drastic than that. Storr became a journeyman in high school, playing at four different schools over his four years, and now with his latest transfer has played at eight schools in eight seasons. 

It’s certainly a red flag, but with only one season of eligibility remaining there is no reason for Beard to be concerned about his newest player’s long-term loyalty to Oxford. This is a big-time upside play for the Rebels, who are buying incredibly low on a talented 6-foot-7 playmaking wing who averaged 16.8 points just two seasons ago. 

Storr was inefficient at Kansas, shooting under 40 percent from the field and averaging just over six points a game, and he struggled to stay on the court for arguably Bill Self’s worst team over his 22 seasons in Lawrence. The Jayhawks desperately needed more perimeter scoring threats to play off multi-time All-American center Hunter Dickinson and Storr showed flashes late in the year with 19 points in the Big 12 Tournament Quarterfinal win over UCF and 15 points in the NCAA Tournament first-round loss to Arkansas. 

Still, despite those performances, Kansas was happy to move on from its biggest NIL mistake to make room for the incoming No. 1 overall recruit in the 2025 high school class, Darryn Peterson.

If Storr can recapture his former from his days at Wisconsin, he’ll be one of the biggest steals of the portal cycle. Beard needs a primary scorer with point guard Sean Pedulla out of eligibility and Storr is one of the few players with the athleticism and skillset to shoulder that load at the SEC level. Will he put it all together for his eighth head coach over the last eight years? We’ll have to wait and see.