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1 week ago | 
cbssports.com | Isaac Trotter
Fresh off leading Florida to 36 wins and a national championship, the Gators have handed coach Todd Golden a fresh six-year contract that will make him one of the top five highest-paid coaches in the country. Golden's new deal stretches to 2031. He will earn $40.5 million over the next six years, the school announced Tuesday. Golden, now 39, was the youngest head coach to win the national championship since NC State's Jim Valvano in 1983.
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1 week ago | 
247sports.com | Isaac Trotter
The 2025 transfer portal cycle is not fully wrapped up yet, but Miami is the only high-major program that does not have double-digit guys on the roster right now. That speaks to the calendar shifting and numerous players opting to take the money from the college ranks instead of testing the NBA Draft waters. Also, we'll cut Miami first-year coach Jai Lucas some slack.
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1 week ago | 
thepress.net | Isaac Trotter
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2 weeks ago | 
cbssports.com | Adam Finkelstein |Isaac Trotter
The 2025 college basketball transfer portal may be closed, but there are still numerous national-caliber programs looking to make significant additions to their roster before next season. The challenge is that many of the best available players in the portal still aren't sure they'll be playing college basketball next season. In fact, the seven best available players, according to the last 247Sports Portal Rankings, have also declared for the NBA Draft.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbssports.com | Matt Norlander |Isaac Trotter
The transfer portal deadline hit at midnight ET Wednesday, ending the liveliest and most congested transfer cycle in college basketball history. Nearly 2,200 players who are not walk-ons and are currently eligible put their names into the portal over the past month. That much activity has led to a record-setting amount of money being promised across college hoops, in addition to new levels of widespread anxiety amongst coaches and athletic directors.
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3 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Isaac Trotter
1. F Yaxel Lendeborg
Transferring from: UAB
Transferring to: Michigan
The scout: Yaxel Lendeborg is the top dawg in the portal, who is positioned to be a major needle-mover if the NBA doesn't come calling. Lendeborg is a 6-foot-9, 240-pound forward who can pass, dribble, shoot and defend. Lendeborg can play the small-ball 5 or toggle to the 4 rather effortlessly, and he dominates with a mix of power and finesse.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbssports.com | Isaac Trotter
There is one overarching question circling throughout college basketball circles: Are you transferring for basketball or money reasons? Multi-million-dollar offers in this money-rush 2025 portal cycle have made it even harder to find the correct convergence between the best basketball situation and the most lucrative deal. Do you pick once-in-a-lifetime money? Or the best fit for your game? Can you possibly have your cake and eat it, too? It's a complicated, nuanced discussion.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbssports.com | Isaac Trotter |David Cobb |Adam Finkelstein |Travis Branham
The college basketball transfer portal has been on fire in the last week with enormous names hitting free agency, aiming to cash in on the influx of money in a historic cycle. It calls for a fresh rankings update, and there was a heated debate at the top between two AAC rivals: Memphis' PJ Haggerty and UAB's Yaxel Lendeborg. Parsing the differentiators between two unquestioned studs is not easy.
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3 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Isaac Trotter
The transfer portal is a weird, eerie place, especially nowadays with multi-million-dollar offers flying around left and right. The ballooning money in the 2025 portal cycle has made it even harder to find the correct convergence between the best basketball situation and the most lucrative deal. RELATED: The $10 million club - College basketball's portal recruiting hits unthinkable levels of financial chaosDo you pick once-in-a-lifetime money? Or the best fit for your game?
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3 weeks ago | 
cbssports.com | Isaac Trotter |David Cobb |Adam Finkelstein |Travis Branham
Darian DeVries had the concept of a roster, but you famously can't hoop with four guys on the team. In two days, Indiana's roster has nearly doubled in size. DeVries has racked up three commits in 48 hours, and his first IU squad is starting to take shape. Sam Houston State transfer Lamar Wilkerson is the jewel. The Hoosiers ponied up the big bucks to outlast Kentucky and Auburn for one of the premier sharpshooters in this portal haul who has drawn comparisons to Chaz Lanier.
