College basketball’s 2024 transfer portal cycle opens Monday. A trickle of graduate transfers have already entered the portal, but the 45-day window (one of a few new changes) for underclassmen to look for their new home starts just a few hours after Selection Sunday.
The 2023 cycle has been a smashing success.
The Player of the Year in the SEC was a transfer (Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht).
The Player of the Year in the Pac-12 was a transfer (Arizona’s Caleb Love).
The co-Player of the Year in the AAC was a transfer (South Florida’s Chris Youngblood).
Illinois’ Marcus Domask and Wake Forest’s Hunter Sallis were both named First Team, All-Conference this week. Both came from the 2023 transfer cycle. Both weren’t necessarily the biggest names, either. Impact players are capable of being found just about anywhere.
The portal matters now more than ever, and coaching staffs throughout the country are already formulating their big boards and gameplans to fill their respective needs. It’s expected to be mayhem. Here are nine teams who will have their fingerprints all over the 2024 transfer portal cycle in more ways than one.
Ed Cooley didn’t leave Providence for Georgetown to be the laughingstock of the Big East every year. Georgetown could be 40 minutes away from its offseason getting started in earnest. The Hoyas are expected to be major players in the 2024 cycle, and Cooley needs a little bit of everything. More size would be a good place to start to buff up one of the worst defenses in the country. A big guard who can take some of the playmaking load off Jayden Epps would be helpful, as well. Georgetown just has to hit on its transfers in a major way if it wants to compete in a top-heavy Big East.
