NCAA Basketball: Indiana, Kentucky among top 25 transfer classes in early May

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, center, posed for a photo onstage after giving Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope and Louisville basketball coach Pat Kelsey the title of Kentucky Colonel at the 2024 Leadership Louisville Luncheon at the Kentucky International Convention Center in downtown Louisville on Wednesday, August 28, 2024.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, center, posed for a photo onstage after giving Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope and Louisville basketball coach Pat Kelsey the title of Kentucky Colonel at the 2024 Leadership Louisville Luncheon at the Kentucky International Convention Center in downtown Louisville on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. | Jeff Faughender/Courier Journal & USA Today Network / USA TODAY NETWORK
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Thousands of college basketball players have entered the transfer portal in the last two months, signaling the latest crazy and eventful offseason in this sport. Even weeks before the season had actually crowned a champion there was already a significant focus on next year and where all these players would land.

The calendar now reads May and these teams across the nation have been busy at work in this offseason. Hundreds of those players in the portal have found their new homes or returned to their old schools, with the rosters for next season really starting to shape up. NIL continues to have a major impact on the movement and there have been some pretty exciting decisions made by these players already.

We’ll be considering those movements today as a whole by looking at which teams have made the biggest moves in the transfer portal this offseason. We’re identifying the top 25 classes to this point and ranking them based on who they’ve added and explaining a little bit of what it could mean for their teams in the future.