2019 transfers

[tornado]

Clayton Hughes tells the Indiana State beat guy that he wants to transfer to play with his brother who is headed to Indiana Wesleyan
Indiana Wesleyan had a pretty good season - they made it to their Elite Eight - http://www.iwuwildcats.com/article/6454


Derrick Smits, who is transferring from Valparaiso - kinda slams the entire MVC - tells their beat guy he wants to play better competition

https://twitter.com/NWIOren/status/1107724135608864768

Derrick's dad, ex-NBAer Rik Smits now lives in Arizona so wouldn't be surprising if he looks for a school out west.

[egib52]

Clayton Hughes tells the Indiana State beat guy that he wants to transfer to play with his brother who is headed to Indiana Wesleyan
Indiana Wesleyan had a pretty good season - they made it to their Elite Eight - http://www.iwuwildcats.com/article/6454


Derrick Smits, who is transferring from Valparaiso - kinda slams the entire MVC - tells their beat guy he wants to play better competition

https://twitter.com/NWIOren/status/1107724135608864768

Derrick's dad, ex-NBAer Rik Smits now lives in Arizona so wouldn't be surprising if he looks for a school out west.

Wow I totally missed him getting POY in the Valley after dominating such weak competition, and leading Valpo to the tournament.

[tornado]

Wow I totally missed him getting POY in the Valley after dominating such weak competition, and leading Valpo to the tournament.

Derrik Smits did make the MOST IMPROVED TEAM - http://valpoathletics.com/mbasketbal...improved-team/
..so that means he did IMPROVE playing against MVC competition - let's see if he mimics the progress of Marcus Arnold, Dominic Olejniczak & Reggie Lynch who went from respected MVC starter to either deep sub or disgraced idiot on someone else's roster...

[Da Coach]

From what I saw of Smits, he does have nice skills and has the potential to be a much more dominant player, but is very passive and foul-prone. I doubt he will do better if he lands at a higher level school for his one grad-transfer year. I suspect he has heard from bigger schools in other conference and they are telling him he should transfer up, but in the end, I see him as a backup if he goes to a top 5 or 6 conference.

[tornado]

One time Bradley recruit then Drake commit ...then reopened and became a Bradley recruit again
but he landed at Ohio - Teyvion Kirk from Joliet West.
he averaged 15 ppg as a sophomore but is now leaving & wants to transfer.. likely aiming at a power-conference spot

[tornado]

Drake is losing a kid to transfer -
one of the potential future backups for Nick McGlynn, Matt Gray - a big Australian kid who redshirted this year
is leaving and transferring... https://godrakebulldogs.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5929

[Da Coach]

The 2019 transfer list is now over 400 players, and is growing fast. It looks like it could reach record numbers of transfers. Many more names will be added when the spring signing period and recruiting season ends, and then more are announced around the end of the school year.

http://verbalcommits.com/transfers/2019?division=D1

10-15 years ago, the number of transfers were around 200-300 per year, but in 2015 it has surpassed 700, And last Year (2018 ) surpassed 800.

[bradleyfan124]

The 2019 transfer list is now over 400 players, and is growing fast. It looks like it could reach record numbers of transfers. Many more names will be added when the spring signing period and recruiting season ends, and then more are announced around the end of the school year.

http://verbalcommits.com/transfers/2019?division=D1

10-15 years ago, the number of transfers were around 200-300 per year, but in 2015 it has surpassed 700, And last Year (2018 ) surpassed 800.

Millennials!!!

[tornado]

ISU's Isaac Gassman is transferring - but he already burned his redshirt year back in 2016-17 -
he's actually a pretty good 3-pt shooter, hitting 40% in his career so far (42-106) but was always a bit of a defensive liability against DI opponents
so he might go DII - but he's been at ISU long enough (3 years plus summers) that he might be able to go as a grad-transfer and help some other DI with his shooting.

I am surprised nobody has asked out at SIU given the coaching change - especially since one of their players is the son of a Barry Hinson assistant who may not be retained.

UNI's Tray Croft is also transferring - he was a really prolific scorer in high school & junior college. His choices are kind of limited now since he already sat out a year and will have to do so again if he goes DI, and if he doesn't have the grades, then some DII's won't even want to deal with that.

Another kid who was a prolific scorer in junior college just announced he's transferring - Ty Lazenby - but he just never found any playing time in Oklahoma's deep lineup
https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...261#post449261

Indiana also has a big kid transferring - 6-10 Clifton Moore, who was Top 150 in high school, averaged 20 ppg/10 rpg, was recruited by Tom Crean before Crean got fired - but never fit Indiana's offense... He could be a solid midmajor player...
Reportedly both he & Lazenby are A-students.

[ihatetea]

Players like Moore and Williams always make me hesitant. Were they as talented as evaluators thought and just misused? Bad fits for the system? Clashed with their teammates and coaches? Were they secretly hurt in a way that inhibited them but completely capable of bouncing back to their expected levels? Or were the evaluators bad at their jobs and these guys just aren’t quite that good? If the staff wants to take one of those two I’d have to assume they know what they’re doing. But that voice in the back of my head would keep saying “maybe they aren’t that good. Remember Mike Shaw? He was a formerly highly rated prospect that transferred after putting up poor numbers. And he was just okay for us.”

[tornado]

Here's an interesting transfer--
Charlie Moore - Kansas guard originally from Chicago (Morgan Park)
Obviously looking for more playing time and keeps getting recruited over at Kansas and loses playing time to bigger talented guys.

[Da Coach]

Here's an interesting transfer--
Charlie Moore - Kansas guard originally from Chicago (Morgan Park)
Obviously looking for more playing time and keeps getting recruited over at Kansas and loses playing time to bigger talented guys.

Charlie Moore started at Cal and was one of their top players as a freshman. He started 34 of 34 games there in 2016-17 and averaged 12.2 ppg. But then the coach that recruited him, Cuonzo Martin left to take the Missouri job, and Moore decided to transfer He wanted more certainty of getting national exposure and playing in the NCAA Tournament, so he transferred to Kansas. He sat out last season, and played this season. But he only played 13 minutes per game this past season, and was 10th on the team with his 2.9 ppg average. He shot only 28.6% overall and 26.7% on threes. In Kansas' two NCAA Tournament games, he only had a total of 2 points. He has played 2 seasons (one at Cal and one at Kansas), but he will lose a year of eligibility by transferring again (unless he gets a waiver from the NCAA) because he already burned a redshirt year with his first transfer.

He is from Chicago (Morgan Park HS) and played for Mac Irvin Fire. He's a pretty good player, but needs to find the right school this time. I'd guess that he might transfer to a school like UIC or another Chicago school, where he will play a lot more, and maybe have a better chance at getting a waiver and be eligible right away and not have to sit out another year.

[Mikovio]

Mike Shaw was just never fully healthy here.

[tornado]

Loyola loses reserve guard Isaiah Bujdoso - transferring

http://loyolaphoenix.com/2019/03/loyola-isaiah-bujdoso-announces-intention-to-transfer/

[egib52]

Charlie Moore started at Cal and was one of their top players as a freshman. He started 34 of 34 games there in 2016-17 and averaged 12.2 ppg. But then the coach that recruited him, Cuonzo Martin left to take the Missouri job, and Moore decided to transfer He wanted more certainty of getting national exposure and playing in the NCAA Tournament, so he transferred to Kansas. He sat out last season, and played this season. But he only played 13 minutes per game this past season, and was 10th on the team with his 2.9 ppg average. He shot only 28.6% overall and 26.7% on threes. In Kansas' two NCAA Tournament games, he only had a total of 2 points. He has played 2 seasons (one at Cal and one at Kansas), but he will lose a year of eligibility by transferring again (unless he gets a waiver from the NCAA) because he already burned a redshirt year with his first transfer.

He is from Chicago (Morgan Park HS) and played for Mac Irvin Fire. He's a pretty good player, but needs to find the right school this time. I'd guess that he might transfer to a school like UIC or another Chicago school, where he will play a lot more, and maybe have a better chance at getting a waiver and be eligible right away and not have to sit out another year.

He should never have gone to KU. He left after Cuonzo left town, but should have gone to a school that would highlight him or stayed. KU is a blue blood who will always pull 5 stars.