2020 transfer list

[Da Coach]

There are already over 240 players in the NCAA transfer portal.
List by conference-
https://watchstadium.com/college-bas...st-10-31-2019/

Another list of 270+ by alphabetical order-

http://verbalcommits.com/transfers/2020?division=D1

The MVC has only 5 known transfers so far.

[bradleyfan124]

There are already over 240 players in the NCAA transfer portal.
List by conference-
https://watchstadium.com/college-bas...st-10-31-2019/

Another list of 270+ by alphabetical order-

http://verbalcommits.com/transfers/2020?division=D1

The MVC has only 5 known transfers so far.

What is going on with Wichita State? I count 5 transfers so far. Is there Coach running out of slush fund money to pay them?

[Da Coach]

Wichita State's 5 transfers-

• 3/14/2020 - 2019 PF DeAntoni Gordon (6-7, 200, 4★) will be transferring. - Per Link
• 3/13/2020 - 2019 PG Noah Fernandes (5-11, 152, 4★) will be transferring.
• 3/13/2020 - 2018 PG Jamarius Burton (6-4, 210, 2★) will be transferring. - Per Corey Evans, Rivals
• 3/13/2020 - 2018 SG Erik Stevenson (6-3, 202, 3★) will be transferring.
• 3/13/2020 - 2018 PG Tate Busse (6-2, 177, 2★) will be transferring.

The first 4 are scholarship players and Tate Busse was a walkon. Reports suggest these transfers were not forced by head coach Gregg Marshall.
Marshall also lost his top scorer, senior Jaime Echenique, to graduation, but 2nd and 3rd leading scorers, transfers Stevenson and Burton were also double-digit scorers. The other two, Fernandes and Gordon, didn't play much, but both were 4-star recruits who were talented, and were expected to be part of next year's key nucleus of players. This leaves WSU with 4 open scholarships. Marshall will now need to do a lot more recruiting than he planned on.

[BRAVE82]

I would imagine that Wichita will be looking to add a PG.

[Da Coach]

The 2020 Transfer List is now well over 400

http://verbalcommits.com/transfers/2020

[LongTimeFan]

There are several players in the positions mentioned by Wardle that could be available next year, but schools are already warming up their phones with calls.

[Da Coach]

Another player who Bradley once recruited has entered the Transfer Portal, and is available.
Koreem Ozier, a 6'1" combo guard who is a sophomore at Sacred Heart University has just entered the NCAA Transfer Portal-

https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status/1245022576994406400

http://verbalcommits.com/players/koreem-ozier

Koreem Ozier graduated in 2017 from Racine Case High School where he sets scoring records and is the all-time leading scorer at that school. He lead the state of Wisconsin in scoring 2 years in a row and averaged over 30 points per game as a senior. Our coaches were aware of him, though I do not believe Bradley recruited him seriously out of high school. He spent a post-grad year at Scotland Sports Campus in 2017-18, and was a teammate with Ari Boya there.
Here is a mention of him from our Recruiting thread-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/26052-2018-beyond-recruiting-targets?p=456192#post456192

.... but he eventually committed to Sacred Heart University of the Northeast Conference.
He has been a starter for 2 seasons at SHU, and averaged 14.0 ppg each of his two seasons there.
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...6/koreem-ozier

Bio- https://www.shubigred.com/sports/m-b...er_koreem_xmat

[Da Coach]

The NCAA transfer list is now over 600 names-
2020 transfer list- http://verbalcommits.com/transfers/2020?division=D1
It contains 2 Bradley players, Stephan Gabriel and Sean Houpt.

Last season (2019) it reached 997 names-

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

2018 reached 873 and 2017 was 894-

[Da Coach]

A bunch more D1 players have announced today that they will transfer, including one more MVC player.
John Hall of Evansville has added his name to the NCAA transfer portal. He is a redshirt junior, having sat out his freshman year, and thus will be eligible as a grad-transfer. This past season, he started 25 of their 32 games, and averaged 6.0 ppg and 3.2 rpg.

[Da Coach]

Another player who Bradley once recruited has entered the Transfer Portal, and is available.
Koreem Ozier, a 6'1" combo guard who is a sophomore at Sacred Heart University has just entered the NCAA Transfer Portal-

https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status/1245022576994406400

http://verbalcommits.com/players/koreem-ozier

Koreem Ozier graduated in 2017 from Racine Case High School where he sets scoring records and is the all-time leading scorer at that school. He lead the state of Wisconsin in scoring 2 years in a row and averaged over 30 points per game as a senior. Our coaches were aware of him, though I do not believe Bradley recruited him seriously out of high school. He spent a post-grad year at Scotland Sports Campus in 2017-18, and was a teammate with Ari Boya there.
Here is a mention of him from our Recruiting thread-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/26052-2018-beyond-recruiting-targets?p=456192#post456192

.... but he eventually committed to Sacred Heart University of the Northeast Conference.
He has been a starter for 2 seasons at SHU, and averaged 14.0 ppg each of his two seasons there.
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...6/koreem-ozier

Bio- https://www.shubigred.com/sports/m-b...er_koreem_xmat

One-time Bradley recruit Koreem Ozier, who is transferring from Sacred Heart could end up in the MVC with a rival of Bradley's. Bradley filled their need for another point guard, so they would no longer be interested, but according to this source, SIU is one of several schools making a pitch for former Racine Case HS star Koreem Ozier, a pretty good point guard looking for a new school-

https://twitter.com/scoopmantv/status/1245391415565221888

[LongTimeFan]

It will be hard for SIU to compete with some of the schools mentioned in the text. If he went to North Carolina, it might be easier for him to graduate.

[Da Coach]

7'3" Purdue redshirt senior center Matt Haarms entered his name into the Transfer Portal today. He has already heard from at least 25 other schools.
https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/sta...86176412819463

Note that one of the first schools to contact him was Illinois State. Dan Muller is desperate to add a productive big man.
Good luck competing against schools like Gonzaga, Minnesota (maybe they want a grad-transfer in case Liam Robbins has to sit out a year), Oklahoma, Louisville, Kentucky, Arizona, Arkansas, Arizona State, Syracuse, Mississippi, DePaul, South Carolina, Wichita State, Oklahoma State, Cincinnati, Washington State, Utah, Oregon State, Boston College, Virginia Tech, Seton Hall, and others.

[Da Coach]

Another new name with a slight Bradley connection just hit the transfer portal- Grant Weatherford, who just left IUPUI, is now in the transfer portal as a grad-transfer....
I am not suggesting that Bradley could be interested. Bradley doesn't have any open scholarships at this time.

He was a 3-star guard from Hamilton Heights HS in Cicero, Indiana in 2015, and landed at Purdue. He redshirted the 2015-16 season at Purdue, then left and transferred to Midland College, a juco in Texas, where he played in 2016-17. From there, he went to IUPUI, but redshirted again for the 2017-18 season, and then has been a starter at IUPUI for the past 2 seasons. In 2018-19 he averaged 6.2 ppg and shot 46% from three. This past season he was 3rd in scoring on IUPUI with an average of 9.3, 2nd in rebounding at 4.9 rpg, and 2nd in assists with 3.0 apg. He shot 33% from three.
Since he has played 3 full seasons (one at Midland and 2 at IUPUI) and he's redshirted 2 seasons (at Purdue in 2015-16 and at IUPUI in 2017-18 ), he will need a waiver to play a 6th year. But the NCAA has been more generous with such waivers in the last few years.

His connection to Bradley is that in high school, he played for the Indiana Elite AAU/summer program and was coached there by the head coach of Indiana Elite, Mark Adams, who is the father of Bradley assistant coach Drew Adams.

[Da Coach]

CBS Sports college basketball expert Jon Rothstein wrote this column about what he sees happening if the NCAA does pass a new rule allowing all NCAA college players the ability to transfer one time without any penalty or any required sit-out period. Such a proposal will be considered and possibly voted on by the NCAA later this summer.
All 5 of Rothstein's potential outcomes are bad for mid-major schools.
https://collegehoopstoday.com/index....fer-exception/

Here are the 5 effects he sees happening, along with some quotes clipped from his column-
1) More tampering - "Handshake lines would become home visits,” one high-major assistant said recently. “We’d be recruiting off each other’s teams every single day.”
players...would be poached from mid-major programs...
Michigan associate head coach Phil Martelli said last week. “Coaches would go back to hating each other. It’s just not good.”

2) MId-majors would essentially become junior colleges- In essence, mid-major programs with highly productive players would have no chance of keeping a nucleus intact.
“One player makes such a big difference.”
“There’s a supply and there’s a demand,” former Drexel coach Bruiser Flint added.... “If you’ve got a really good player... you’ve got no shot of keeping him.”
It will be nearly impossible for mid-major basketball to exist the way it has for decades if the NCAA passes a rule where transfers can play immediately without a penalty. The new junior college?

3) More roster turnover- We’re going to see a lot of turnover,” Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery said... “It’ll change the complexion of the sport.”
The most successful teams in college basketball have always been those who have had great continuity over the course of time. This would be extremely hard to accomplish if a one-time transfer waiver was put into effect.

4) Program building would become obsolete- ...Duke has shifted from winning with older and more experienced guys to assembling the best talent it can from what’s available in that year’s freshman class.... (now) everyone else will likely have to follow suit at some point.

5) The potential elimination of waivers- This is a good thing. Why have some players gotten waivers over the past few years while some haven’t?
Tom Izzo said of the waiver process... "We’ve got a lot of people making up stories" (to try to get the NCAA to approve a waiver).

All of these changes, if they happen, would likely harm the mid-major schools like Bradley.
Personally, I don't see the NCAA eliminating waivers. I think they like being the king-makers, and having the exclusive, arbitrary right to make those decisions, so they can favor some schools over others and not have to owe anyone an explanation.

[Da Coach]

One more interesting transfer-related column.... Jeff Goodman, former college basketball writer for ESPN, posted this column evaluating the transfers who "transferred up" to higher-level schools. What he found with the 50 such transfers last year was that all but two saw their playing time and production fall significantly. The only two who played and produced as much at the higher level were two transfers who followed their head coach who was hired away by the higher school.
https://watchstadium.com/transferrin...rs-04-13-2020/

Here is the summary of the average drops in production for the players who transferred.