2019 transfers

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Brian Wardle is in Minneapolis, MN watching the Illinois Irish & Tim Finke - Class of 2018 & younger brother of Illini Michael Finke ...

Former Bradley recruit Tim Finke is currently a freshman at Grand Canyon but now that his older brother is graduating,
Tim Finke is leaving and has announced he will transfer.


and another former Bradley recruit, Ra Kpedi is transferring - https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...er/3338789002/

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24/7 Sports ranks the transfers currently available
..Jaylen Fisher is ranked as the 8th highest ranking guard available transfer, Kingsby is ranked 49th, Bryce Moore is 61st,
Tim Finke 70th (among guards)

https://247sports.com/Season/2019-Ba...ransferPortal/

[ihatetea]

Pretty sure those rankings are how that site had these players ranked coming out of high school. For instance, if you look for Lamont West, he doesn’t have any rating number and is fairly far down the list despite scoring well in one of the toughest conferences and shooting a good percentage from three. He’s also listed as a small forward despite playing more as a power forward.

for instance, this guy is listed higher than West despite scoring 3.6 and rebounding 3.7 for st bonaventure in just 19 games last year

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/tshiefu-ngalakulondi-1.html

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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 headed to DePaul

[egib52]

Charlie Moore headed to DePaul

I'm stunned

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I notice that Valparaiso is linked to just about every available transfer out there...gotta wonder
if it's because they plan to replace McMillan & Bradford, too...

[Da Coach]

Here is a pretty good list of the top 100 transfers. I am not sure the lists of schools each transfer is leaning toward are accurate. The only one in this list that is linked to Bradley is #42 Evan Gilyard formerly of UTEP. There are a few others, too.
https://watchstadium.com/news/rankin...on-04-22-2019/

We were the first to post Bradley's interest in Evan Gilyard way back in July, 2015 when he was at Chicago Simeon HS-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/25854-a-coach-wardle-sighting?p=427596#post427596

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/recruits-and-recruiting/25900-class-of-2017-evan-gilyard#post25900

And we posted again about him last month when he left UTEP and planned to transfer-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/28078-2019-transfers?p=484033#post484033

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The Redbirds' Josh Jefferson is headed to Green Bay after transferring from ISU

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SIU is hosting a visit today from Northwestern transfer Barret Benson.
He's a 6-10 grad transfer with one year to play but has played very little in 3 seasons at Northwestern.
He gets 10 min per game and even started 5 games, averages about 2 ppg & 3 rpg but hits only 40% and only 56% on FTs
He has 194 career points in three seasons - considerably less than Callum Barker, Jayden Hodgson or even Jojo McGlaston scored at Bradley.
I checked the Northwestern fans' reactions on their message board - they are quite concerned with all the players transferring out...
but they are not being replaced with Big Ten caliber kids...
Right now, the only scholarship guys they have coming back are Greer, Kopp, Gaines, Young, Turner & Nance- all of whom COMBINE
to average only a little over 10 ppg! NW Fans are a little miffed that the school re-upped Chris Collins all the way thru 2025 and there's nothing positive on the horizon..(they finished in last place this year at 4-16 and are looking at a total re-build for next year)
Even the one year they got all the press for making the NCAA (2017) - they still finished just ahead of 9th place Illinois.

[Da Coach]

Former Valparaiso center Derrick Smits is transferring to Butler. He will be a grad-transfer, and will be eligible next fall at Butler.

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lot of playing time available there for him

[Da Coach]

SIU is hosting a visit today from Northwestern transfer Barret Benson.
He's a 6-10 grad transfer with one year to play but has played very little in 3 seasons at Northwestern.
He gets 10 min per game and even started 5 games, averages about 2 ppg & 3 rpg but hits only 40% and only 56% on FTs
He has 194 career points in three seasons - considerably less than Callum Barker, Jayden Hodgson or even Jojo McGlaston scored at Bradley.
I checked the Northwestern fans' reactions on their message board - they are quite concerned with all the players transferring out...
but they are not being replaced with Big Ten caliber kids...
Right now, the only scholarship guys they have coming back are Greer, Kopp, Gaines, Young, Turner & Nance- all of whom COMBINE
to average only a little over 10 ppg! NW Fans are a little miffed that the school re-upped Chris Collins all the way thru 2025 and there's nothing positive on the horizon..(they finished in last place this year at 4-16 and are looking at a total re-build for next year)
Even the one year they got all the press for making the NCAA (2017) - they still finished just ahead of 9th place Illinois.

Northwestern transfer Barret Benson commits to SIU. This choice is no surprise. Benson played little in his 3 seasons at Northwestern, and wanted to pick a school where he would get a lot of playing time. SIu fits that description. The other factor... Benson played for the Illinois Wolves AAU program, which is run by Mike Mullins, father of SIU head coach Bryan Mullins, and SIU assistant coach Brendan Mullins.

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I was trying to find some recent highlights of Barret Benson and instead found this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J353Tqg-sQ

it is a video produced by Northwestern to highlight Benson and it does show some on-court highlights..
but every one is just Benson cheering on his teammates from the Northwestern bench...
then later in the video it shows a little routine he does as a stand-up comic.....
There are some other older highlight videos of him prior to 2017 and he does look like he has potential -

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Iowa's Isaiah Moss is transferring - he would be a grad transfer and immediately eligible...
doubt he'd consider a midmajor - he was a full time starter and averaged 9 ppg and 42% 3-pt shooting
He was originally out of Simeon HS in Chicago and back in 2014 he was a top target of....guess who --
Head Coach Brian Wardle of Green Bay - https://cube.sportngin.com/news_article/show/405782

https://www.krossover.com/articles/recruiting-roundup-080114/

[egib52]

I am sure you are right that he probably won't go MM, but he is the kind of guy who could end up averaging 15-20 a game because there would be more focus on him in the offense. If he stays High Major he will likely be a bench player or 3pt specialist.