Isaac Trotter
National College Basketball Writer at 247Sports
@247Sports, @CBSSports National College Basketball Writer
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6 days 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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1 week 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.
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1 week ago |
cbssports.com | Isaac Trotter |David Cobb |Adam Finkelstein |Travis Branham
Chris Beard got his first head coaching gig at Fort Scott Community College in small-town Kansas where Junior College rosters flip-flop like fish. So renovating an Ole Miss roster that lost six of its top seven players to graduation is no new task, and Beard is clearly unafraid to take big swings after making the Sweet 16 and leveraging Texas' interest into even more resources.
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1 week ago |
247sports.com | Isaac Trotter
There are 76 high-major teams in college basketball. Seventy-seven if you include Gonzaga, 78 if San Diego State counts and the final count settles at 79 if money-bag Memphis gets the nod. Only 19 of those 79 teams are currently slated to get multiple double-digit scorers back. Such is life in the free agency era of college basketball where retention is harder than ever while remaining a key variable more often than not for the best teams in the country.
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1 week ago |
cbssports.com | Isaac Trotter |David Cobb |Travis Branham
New Xavier coach Richard Pitino had one heckuva Saturday. Pitino reeled in three (!) portal commits in 12 hours at three critical positions of need. Montana guard Malik Moore, Evansville wing Gabriel Pozzato and Florida Atlantic forward Tre Carroll all hopped on board, and each of them project to be Day 1 starters. Moore may shape up to be the jewel of Pitino's first Xavier club. The 6-foot-5 guard owns a silky-smooth jumper and a polished handle.
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Ranking the top 100 players in the transfer portal with scouting reports on every single player. This one is loaded... Story: https://t.co/K6mWJQK6aX https://t.co/igvMuamNxC
Kentucky’s defense has a chance to be way, way, way better with Otega Oweh, Mo Dioubate and Jayden Quaintance on the floor together. Mark Pope has never had a top-20 defense. That trio should change that, if Quaintance is healthy.
The same Houston team that executed to perfection in crunch time against Purdue did the 'incomprehensible' and ... blinked. The scene from inside a whaling Houston locker room with Many Men bumpin' around the corner. https://t.co/P5ujNQ84mi