2024 - Portal Tracker

[two3zone]

I hope you're right about Choppa, but we don't really know at this point. As for upgrades everywhere, our PG position says hello. If your answer is Carlos, I want whatever gummies you're eating.

Are we middle aged men really calling a kid "Choppa"?

 

[longtimefan]

Are we middle aged men really calling a kid "Choppa"?

I actually have a (much younger) nephew who has gone by that name practically since the day he was born. Of course, he was called the more formal "Chopper".

 

[JDubbin]

Are we middle aged men really calling a kid "Choppa"?

Although the word meanings are significantly different, middle aged men have been saying "choppa" for many years now thanks to Arnold

 

[Zelda Zonk]

Are we middle aged men really calling a kid "Choppa"?

Jeebus. I didn’t know the meaning, hiphop not being my thang and whatnot.

 

[Sbucketball]

I feel bad for Red that this is the landscape he started out in. Roster construction is way different than it’s ever been

Just be glad this era didn't start in JB's prime, or else we probably would have lost a lot of our historical success. I never say anything bad about JB and appreciate all he did, but it's seems more than reasonable to guess he wouldn't have done as well in this era. Just doesn't seem to suit him and his coaching style. Good time for a transition.

 

[longtimefan]

Just be glad this era didn't start in JB's prime, or else we probably would have lost a lot of our historical success. I never say anything bad about JB and appreciate all he did, but it's seems more than reasonable to guess he wouldn't have done as well in this era. Just doesn't seem to suit him and his coaching style. Good time for a transition.

I don't think JAB would be the only "legendary" coach who would have trouble in this new era.

 

[two3zone]

I don't think JAB would be the only "legendary" coach who would have trouble in this new era.

Its why they all retired at once, I don't blame them.

 

[MSOrange]

Its why they all retired at once, I don't blame them.

Definitely. Even if you're in favor of the changes (and I generally am, even if it makes it not as much fun to be a fan) would I like to be dealing with trying to rebuild my roster every single year and 'free agency" when I'm in my 70s?? Heck no!

 

[RyanCuse44]

 

[Cheriehoop]

Ouch for Nova, especially this late into the portal wars.

Wonder what happened - wonder was Nova already sniffing the portal?

 

[Orangezoo]

Ouch for Nova, especially this late into the portal wars.

Wonder what happened - wonder was Nova already sniffing the portal?

Nova is a mess - Neptune seems to be struggling this off season. They aren’t even top 70 in the portal class rankings right now and don’t have an impressive freshman class coming in either. All that with them having a GM too

 

[RyanCuse44]

 

[DCUNITED13]

So many unknowns for next year. We could have a good (NCAA) team or we could have a losing record, I have no idea. But I do know there’s several things that need to work out for us to be good

1. Freeman has to be the real deal and have one of the best freshman seasons in Syracuse history (similar to Moten and Melo)
2. Westry has to be 100% healthy and actually better than he was before he got hurt.
3. Moore, JJ, and Cuffe all need to be consistent shooters and elevate their games. JJ especially has to reach his full potential
4. Bell has to learn how to rebound and play defense.
5. Lampkin has to be a dominant offensive force down low and be able to rebound like a beast.
6. Carlos will need to elevate his game at PG and figure out how to guard players at a higher level.
7. Davis needs to fill in all of the gaps

To me there are too many unknowns. While I would love to see everything come together, the last decade of Syracuse basketball would make that scenario seem unlikely. Red has made some odd moves this offseason. The net portal activity hasn’t been great. Syracuse basketball is in a strange place.

Over the last decade we have been impacted by injuries. Last year injuries at a number of positions had a major impact where we had 40% of our roster playing out of position without a legitimate size back-up.

Jesse Edwards Jr. Year we were on a verge of being on the bubble until he broke his wrist against BC.

Under JB previously we were generally lucky to not have major injuries that impacted the regular season results. However, starting in around 2005-2006 injuries began to eat away out our roster. This makes it hard to sustain performance.

I hope this team stays healthy and without losing players. I like our current team but need depth.

From OrlandoCuse above the only points I would adjust is
#4 Bell to continue to improve his defense and rebounding (he was significantly better than his freshman year.)
#6 Need a consistent point guard who can penetrate and kick out to shooters or drivers.

 

[RyanCuse44]

 

[RyanCuse44]

 

[Cheriehoop]

Thought the portal was closed?

 

[MSOrange]

Thought the portal was closed?

Their coach David Patrick just left so those players have a 30 day window

 

[Cheriehoop]

Their coach David Patrick just left so those players have a 30 day window

Thank you.

 

[Cuse1055]

Their coach David Patrick just left so those players have a 30 day window

David Patrick the former Cuse player on the 96 team?

 

[rrlbees]

David Patrick the former Cuse player on the 96 team?

Yes

 

[MSOrange]

David Patrick the former Cuse player on the 96 team?

Correct

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[RyanCuse44]

 

[RyanCuse44]

Not noted in link above from OE but he's red shirting this year -

 

[Cheriehoop]

ACC Transfer Portal as of May 21
Thanks to Duke’s “brevity“ for this weekly list.
Boston College

6 OUT
Prince Aligbe (to Seton Hall)
Claudell Harris Jr (to Mississippi State)
Mason Madsen (to Utah)
Devin McGlockton (to Vanderbilt)
Armani Mighty (to Buffalo)
Jaeden Zackery (to Clemson)

4 IN
Joshua Beadle (from Clemson)
Dion Brown (from UMBC)
Roger McFarlane (from SE Louisiana)
Chad Venning (from St. Bonaventure)

California

8 OUT
Devin Askew (to Long Beach State)
Monty Bowser
Rodney Brown Jr (to Virginia Tech)
Jalen Celestine (to Baylor)
Gus Larson
Grant Newell (to North Texas)
ND Okafor (to Washington State)
Wrenn Robinson

8 IN
DJ Campbell (from Western Carolina)
Lee Dort (from Vanderbilt)
Joshua Ola-Joseph (from Minnesota)
BJ Omot (from North Dakota)
Rytis Petraitis (from Air Force)
Mady Sissoko (from Michigan State)
Andrej Stojaković (from Stanford)
Christian Tucker (from UTSA)

Clemson

4 OUT
Joshua Beadle (to Boston College)
Jack Clark (to VCU)
RJ Godfrey (to Georgia)
Alex Hemenway (to Vanderbilt)

4 IN
Myles Foster (from Illinois State)
Viktor Lakhin (from Cincinnati)
Christian Reeves (from Duke)
Jaeden Zackery (from Boston College)

Duke

7 OUT
Jaylen Blakes
Mark Mitchell Jr (to Missouri)
TJ Power (to Virginia)
Christian Reeves (to Clemson)
Jeremy Roach (to Baylor)
Jaden Schutt (to Virginia Tech)
Sean Stewart (to Ohio State)

4 IN
Maliq Brown (from Syracuse)
Mason Gillis (from Purdue)
Sion James (from Tulane)
Cameron Sheffield (from Rice)

Florida State

10 OUT
Sola Adebisi
Cameron Corhen (to Pittsburgh)
Cam'Ron Fletcher (to Xavier)
De'Ante Green (to South Florida)
Tom House (to Furman)
Waka Mbatch
Baba Miller
Amir Spears (to UTSA)
Jalen Warley (to Virginia)
Jamir Watkins

4 IN
Jerry Deng (from Hampton)
Malique Ewin (from JUCO/South Plains)
Bostyn Holt (from South Dakota)
Justin Thomas (from UTSA)

Georgia Tech

7 OUT
Amaree Abram (to Louisiana Tech)
Tyzhaun Claude
Dallan Coleman (to UCF)
Ebenezer Dowuona (to James Madison)
Tafara Gapare (to Maryland)
Miles Kelly
Ibrahima Sacko (to New Mexico)

3 IN
Javian McCollum (from Oklahoma)
Ryan Mutombo (from Georgetown)
Luke O'Brien (from Colorado)

Louisville

13 OUT
Skyy Clark (to UCLA)
Koron Davis
Dennis Evans (to Grand Canyon)
Kaleb Glenn (to Florida Atlantic)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (to NC State)
Mike James (to NC State)
Ty-Laur Johnson (to Wake Forest)
Danilo Jovanovich (to Milwaukee)
Hercy Miller
Emmanuel Okorafor
JJ Traynor (to DePaul)
Tre White (to Illinois)
Curtis Williams (to Georgetown)

11 IN
Terrence Edwards Jr (from James Madison)
J'Vonne Hadley (from Colorado)
Chucky Hepburn (from Wisconsin)
Koren Johnson (from Washington)
Aly Khalifa (from BYU)
Kasean Pryor (from South Florida)
Kobe Rodgers (from Charleston)
James Scott (from Charleston)
Reyne Smith (from Charleston)
Aboubacar Traoré (from Long Beach State)
Noah Waterman (from BYU)

Miami

8 OUT
AJ Casey (to St. Louis)
Nick Cassano
Bensley Joseph (to Providence)
Michael Nwoko (to Mississippi State)
Norchad Omier (to Baylor)
Wooga Poplar
Jakai Robinson (to Bryant)
Christian Watson (to Southern Miss)

4 IN
Jalen Blackmon (from Stetson)
Kiree Huie (from Idaho State)
Brandon Johnson (from East Carolina)
Lynn Kidd (from Virginia Tech)

NC State

4 OUT
Alex Nunnally
Ernest Ross (withdrawn, back to NC State)
LJ Thomas (to Austin Peay)
Cam Woods

4 IN
Marcus Hill (from Bowling Green)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (from Louisville)
Mike James (from Louisville)
Dontrez Styles (from Georgetown)

North Carolina

2 OUT
James Okonkwo (to Akron)
Seth Trimble (withdrawn, back to UNC)

1 IN
Cade Tyson (from Belmont)

Notre Dame

4 OUT
Carey Booth (to Illinois)
Raheem Braiton
Alex Wade
Matt Zona (to Fordham)

3 IN
Matt Allocco (from Princeton)
Burke Chebuhar (from Lehigh)
Nikita Konstantynovskyi (from Monmouth)

Pittsburgh

2 OUT
Federiko Federiko (to Texas Tech)
William Jeffress (to Louisiana Tech)

2 IN
Cameron Corhen (from Florida State)
Damian Dunn (from Houston)

SMU

9 OUT
Denver Anglin (to Rice)
Xavier Foster
Ja'Heim Hudson (to Auburn)
Jefferson Koulibaly (to Pacific)
Mo Njie
Zhuric Phelps (to Texas A&M)
Jalen Smith (to Rice)
Tyreek Smith (to Memphis)
Ricardo Wright (to Kennesaw State)

6 IN
Jerrell Colbert (from Kansas State)
Matt Cross (from Massachusetts)
AJ George (from Long Beach State)
Kevin Miller (from Wake Forest)
Kario Oquendo (from Oregon)
Yohan Traore (from UCSB)

Stanford

5 OUT
Brandon Angel (to Oregon)
Kanaan Carlyle (to Indiana)
Max Murrell (to UC Santa Barbara)
Maxime Reynaud (withdrawn, back to Stanford)
Andrej Stojaković (to California)

3 IN
Cole Kastner (from Virginia LAX)
Derin Saran (from UC Irvine)
Oziyah Sellers (from USC)

Syracuse

6 OUT
Maliq Brown (to Duke)
Peter Carey (to Siena)
Quadir Copeland (to McNeese)
Mounir Hima (to Howard)
William Patterson
Justin Taylor (to James Madison)

3 IN
Jaquan Carlos (from Hofstra)
Jyáre Davis (from Delaware)
Eddie Lampkin Jr (from Colorado)

Virginia

4 OUT
Leon Bond III (to Northern Iowa)
Dante Harris
Tristan How (to NYU)
Desmond Roberts

5 IN
Darrin Ames (from Kansas State)
Carter Lang (from Vanderbilt)
TJ Power (from Duke)
Elijah Saunders (from San Diego State)
Jalen Warley (from Florida State)

Virginia Tech

7 OUT
John Camden (to Delaware)
MJ Collins (to Vanderbilt)
Lynn Kidd (to Miami)
Tyler Nickel (to Vanderbilt)
Sean Pedulla (to Ole Miss)
Mylyjael Poteat (withdrawn, back to Virginia Tech)
Rodney Rice (to Maryland)

5 IN
Rodney Brown Jr (from California)
Ben Burnham (from Charleston)
Toibu Lawal (from VCU)
Hysier Miller (from Temple)
Jaden Schutt (from Duke)

Wake Forest

8 OUT
Abramo Canka (to Stetson)
Andrew Carr (to Kentucky)
Aaron Clark (to Pepperdine)
Jao Ituka (to Jacksonville State)
Zach Keller (to Utah)
Matthew Marsh (to Oregon State)
Kevin Miller (to SMU)
Damari Monsanto

5 IN
Churchill Abass (from DePaul)
Omaha Biliew (from Iowa State)
Davin Cosby Jr (from Alabama)
Ty-Laur Johnson (from Louisville)
Tre'Von Spillers (from Appalachian State)