Ten winners & losers through the first month of the transfer portal--Mid-Major Madness
Winners
Youngstown State
Jerrod Calhoun added a talented quartet that makes the Penguins an immediate contender in the Horizon League. Malek Green comes from Canisius after winning the MAAC’s Sixth Man of the Year award in 2020-21. Bryce McBride averaged nearly 12 points per game at Eastern Michigan. Brandon Rush averaged 14.2 points per game at Fairleigh Dickinson, and Adrian Nelson produced at another Horizon League school in Northern Kentucky. Watch out for the mighty Penguins!
Losers
Cleveland State
It’s a norm for teams to lose most of their roster after a coaching change but nearly everyone left for Missouri. The Vikings will come into the new season with a completely new look after winning back-to-back Horizon League regular-season titles.
Ranking the best available men’s college basketball transfers, high school recruits: Isiaih Mosley enters at No. 2--The Athletic
8. Patrick Baldwin Jr. | 6-9 forward | sophomore | Milwaukee
Baldwin is a real conundrum for coaches. A top-five prospect in the 2021 recruiting class, Baldwin chose to go play for his father at Milwaukee and carve out his own path. It went poorly. He had a terrible season, averaging 12 points and six rebounds while shooting 34 percent from the field and 26 percent from 3 in 11 games before shutting it down with an injury. Some of that is contextual. Baldwin’s guards at Milwaukee were horrible this season, totally incapable of getting him the ball in advantageous positions to make plays. He took only a handful of uncontested looks the entire season. Any team that gets Baldwin at the high-major level will have a much easier time getting Baldwin chances, if only because the talent around him will be better. Teams won’t be able to sell out all they have to stop him coming off of off-ball screening actions to get free. I’d love to see him at an actual basketball power next year. I think that’s where he’ll be best utilized. He needs to get tougher, and be willing to fight through the difficult moments. But I think if he’s in a better situation, that’ll shine through. He’s huge at 6-foot-9, and he’s a good shooter regardless of what the percentages say. Any person who saw him at the high school level will tell you that. Of course, all of this is dependent on him coming back to college. Multiple sources on the NBA personnel side still see him as a first-round grade despite his tough season, and I still have him as a top-25 guy in the class because I buy the shooting that much.
12. Antoine Davis | 6-1 guard | graduate | Detroit Mercy
His dad has let him rock for four years, basically shooting it anytime he could see the rim. He averaged 24.6 points and 4.4 assists for his career with usage rates north of 34 percent in three of four seasons. He’s likely looking to make the jump to a higher level, and so with that will come some adjustments. But in some ways the game could get easier for him on a better team. He’s had to create his own offense with defenses geared to stop him. That can be exhausting, and on top of the offensive demands, he rarely ever went off the floor, averaging 37.3 minutes. He was originally committed to Houston out of high school, and let’s say as a thought exercise, he lands back with the Coogs. Definitely possible considering the connection and chance to play on a bigger stage. Now he’d be on a team where there are a lot of other options and guys who can set him up. He shot 45.9 percent this season on catch-and-shoot shots, per Synergy, and that’s an impressive number considering he often didn’t have much space. On a really good team, he’d get much better catch-and-shoot opportunities. He’s also got some wiggle to him and can create his own shot. With better teammates and more space to work out of, he’d have more options when he shakes his man. It’s going to take a little rewiring. There will be more demands on him to defend. He’s going to generate plenty of interest, because the man is an elite shooter.
Predictions for the Top Available Transfers--The Portal Report
Antoine Davis
The veteran from Detroit Mercy would certainly get the green light to shoot in Manhattan. He would provide experience for a young team led by newly minted head coach Jerome Tang.
Former school: Detroit Mercy. Prediction: Kansas State.
Patrick Baldwin Jr.
Although the former five-star recruit struggled as a freshman, he is still being mocked as a late first rounder. There’s no reason to pass up being a first round NBA player.
12.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.5 assists. Former school: Milwaukee. Prediction: NBA.
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