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Winners and losers from college basketball's 2024 transfer portal cycle

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Winner: Marquette's silence is golden

Sometimes, no news is good news. Such is the case with Marquette, whose roster has no outbound or inbound transfers. While Tyler Kolek and Oso Ighodaro have declared for the draft, Shaka Smart's Golden Eagles will return a solid nucleus and have more minutes available for a young crop of internally developed players who should be ready to step into rotation roles. – Cobb

Loser: Seton Hall disintegrates after NIT title

Congratulations on the NIT title, now go rebuild your roster from scratch. That's the reward coach Shaheen Holloway got after guiding his alma mater to a 25-12 record and thrilling NIT championship win over a 32-win Indiana State team. While some of the Pirates' numerous departures were relatively insignificant, losing starters Kadary Richmond, Dre Davis and Dylan Addae-Wusu to the portal stings. Richmond is an especially painful loss as the multi-faceted point guard was a first-team All-Big East performer. It will take a Herculean effort for SHU to find adequate replacements at this point in the cycle. – Cobb

Winner: DePaul's reboot has strong start

Former Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann is hitting the ground running at what is arguably the worst job in a major college basketball conference. DePaul hasn't been to an NCAA Tournament since 2004 and is coming off a 3-29 season. But with the transfer class Holtmann is putting together, don't be surprised if the Blue Demons make strides in his first season. Backcourt players Conor Enright (Drake), Jacob Meyer (Coastal Carolina), Isaiah Rivera (Illinois-Chicago) and David Thomas (Mercer) each shot 40% or better from 3-point range at their last stops. Many of the frontcourt additions have perimeter shooting acumen as well. Holtmann faces a long road to making DePaul relevant in the Big East, but he's off to a good start. – Cobb

Winner: Xavier is reloading

Xavier finished 16-18 in coach Sean Miller's second season after reaching the Sweet 16 as a No. 3 seed in the first year of his second stint with the Musketeers. Given the caliber of transfers Miller has landed, expect to see the Musketeers back in the Big Dance. Guards Ryan Conwell (Indiana State), Marcus Foster (Furman) and Dante Maddox Jr. (Toledo) are big-time bucket getters from strong mid-major programs. Frontcourt players John Hugley IV (Oklahoma) and Lassina Traore (Long Beach State) will also add production to a roster that is expected to have veteran forwards Jerome Hunter and Zach Freemantle back from injury. – Cobb
 
We have very solid players coming in -two highly regarded freshmen, three highly regarded portal transfers, one highly regarded player and five openings for transfer portal players. There are a lot of highly regarded transfer portal players,
we are targeting that have not decided yet. This article is very premature and a waste.

Let's wait and see who we end up when all is said and done!

Cobb must be a SJU fan, he only mentions players SHU is losing, not one mention of a player SHU is going to have on their roster next yr. A total waste as a journalist!!!

Cobb is a joke!

Cobb is a loser as a journalist!
 
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We have very solid players coming in -two highly regarded freshmen, three highly regarded portal transfers, one highly regarded player and five openings for transfer portal players. There are a lot of highly regarded transfer portal players,
we are targeting that have not decided yet. This article is very premature and a waste.

Let's wait and see who we end up when all is said and done!

Cobb must be a SJU fan, he only mentions players SHU is losing, not one mention of a player SHU is going to have on their roster next yr. A total waste as a journalist!!!

Cobb is a joke!

Cobb is a loser as a journalist!
Yeah a guy from Memphis, who covers Tennessee and Memphis, and with no Northeast background and ties must be a huge St. John’s fan.

I also heard he has big love for Rutgers, Nova, and UCONN and the only thing that motivates him is a platform to attack Seton Hall.
 
Its way too early but the writer is not wrong when it comes to SHU at this point. It is what it is - we have more NIL $ but don't have enough money to keep both Dre and Kadary and field a team.
 
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Its way too early but the writer is not wrong when it comes to SHU at this point. It is what it is - we have more NIL $ but don't have enough money to keep both Dre and Kadary and field a team.
It’s just a stupid time to put anything like this out. No different than reading the game threads 5 minutes into a game.
 
We have very solid players coming in -two highly regarded freshmen, three highly regarded portal transfers, one highly regarded player and five openings for transfer portal players. There are a lot of highly regarded transfer portal players,
we are targeting that have not decided yet. This article is very premature and a waste.

Let's wait and see who we end up when all is said and done!

Cobb must be a SJU fan, he only mentions players SHU is losing, not one mention of a player SHU is going to have on their roster next yr. A total waste as a journalist!!!

Cobb is a joke!

Cobb is a loser as a journalist!
Everything is perfect!!!
 
Technically, we've only lost Davis thus far as Wusu and Richmond haven't chosen other locations yet. Picking up three power 6 players who were in the Top 150 of their respective classes isn't bad either. The story is still being written.
 
Its way too early but the writer is not wrong when it comes to SHU at this point. It is what it is - we have more NIL $ but don't have enough money to keep both Dre and Kadary and field a team.
Because while we’re apparently ahead of last years NIL we are still a year or two behind everyone else despite what the university would like you to believe.
 
It’s just a stupid time to put anything like this out. No different than reading the game threads 5 minutes into a game.
Yeah, but how much better would we be feeling if we had a report similar to Marquette’s despite it being insanely early for these types of reports?
 
Technically, we've only lost Davis thus far as Wusu and Richmond haven't chosen other locations yet. Picking up three power 6 players who were in the Top 150 of their respective classes isn't bad either. The story is still being written.
Thought Wusu was coming back or is that just still a strong rumor because he attended the Corks event?
 
Yeah, but how much better would we be feeling if we had a report similar to Marquette’s despite it being insanely early for these types of reports?
Of course we'd be feeling good because once you know you have solid players coming in it's easy to feel good. Marquette regardless of some idiots opinion of them being winners or losers, has good players coming in. We very well could have good players coming in and because of that it's stupid to say we're losers in the transfer portal. The full story of the 2024 transfer portal is still being written.
 
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Mike Brown when he was one of PJ’s recruiting assistants used to say your program is on the uptick when the players you’re bringing in are better than the players leaving. It’s way too early to make that assessment but we are losing our key core players who are transferring and replacing them will not be easy.
 
Its way too early but the writer is not wrong when it comes to SHU at this point. It is what it is - we have more NIL $ but don't have enough money to keep both Dre and Kadary and field a team.
If we had a budget of $3 million, we could have. We don't. NIL is much better, but still not nearly enough to compete with these big guns. Need to fund a team, not just a few stars.

I can't imagine we will be able to any time soon, unless there's a Law School and Wall Street push, or some corporate sponsor that steps up.
 
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