Big East Basketball: Ranking the top 20 transfers for the 2024-2025 season
By John Makuch
7. Pop Issacs (Creighton)
The Creighton Blue Jays have done a great job over the past few years of finding talent, making them better than they found them, and immediately doing the same thing with another impact transfer. Coach McDermott and crew will look to repeat their usual cycle with a great player in Pop Issacs. The former Texas Tech Red Raider will have two years of eligibility and is a scoring machine out of the Big 12.
Issacs put up 16.1 points per game in Big 12 play last season and has 135 made threes through his 59 career games so far. He is a much-needed scorer after the departure of Baylor Scheierman to the NBA, and with Ryan Kalkbrenner staying, this team will look to compete after this addition. While those shooting percentages will need to go up, that is what Creighton is solid at developing, efficiency. He will have to be consistent to find major playing time for this Blue Jays team, but he is talented enough to make that work despite the dip in percentages after he played more last season.
He is another transfer on this list that will be depended on to break out, and he is too good of an all-around player to not find some more success in this new program he finds himself in. It is just all about developing his game and refining his mechanics, right now he is a wild scorer who needs to solidify his play a bit, and if he does so, then Creighton will have a big piece in replacing the offense they lost this offseason.