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2026 Portal transfers

Da Coach said:
Some MVC names-
UNI players Will Hornseth and Leon Bond are in the portal
Indiana State forward Enel St. Bernard is in the portal
Belmont's Win Miller is in the portal
Murray State's Tristan Ford, a point guard that Bradley recruited, is in the portal
Evansville's Leif Moeller is in the portal.

More to come
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UNI's R.J. Taylor is in the portal
Indiana State's Caden Huttenlocker is in the portal (was a transfer from juco one year ago, but red-shirted this past season)
Freshman Jayden Watson and junior Mark Brown of Valparaiso both are in the portal
 
There are now about 1,400 names either in the portal or who have announced they will enter the portal. Of those, only about a dozen or less have actually committed anywhere yet.
If anyone is interested in following names in the portal, here are some sites that help-
Verbalcommits- https://verbalcommits.com/transfers - scroll across the names at the top to see the latest names; refresh every few minutes to update; can also follow their feed on X.com- https://x.com/VerbalCommits
Verbalcommits also has a page that updates with MVC transfers- https://verbalcommits.com/conferences/missouri-valley
On3.com- https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/wire/basketball/ (has a lot fewer names)
The Portal Report- they have a subscription website, but you can follow their feed on X.com- https://x.com/ThePortalReport
 
Da Coach said:
There are now about 1,400 names either in the portal or who have announced they will enter the portal. Of those, only about a dozen or less have actually committed anywhere yet.
If anyone is interested in following names in the portal, here are some sites that help-
Verbalcommits- https://verbalcommits.com/transfers - scroll across the names at the top to see the latest names; refresh every few minutes to update; can also follow their feed on X.com- https://x.com/VerbalCommits
Verbalcommits also has a page that updates with MVC transfers- https://verbalcommits.com/conferences/missouri-valley
On3.com- https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/wire/basketball/ (has a lot fewer names)
The Portal Report- they have a subscription website, but you can follow their feed on X.com- https://x.com/ThePortalReport
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Thanks. I looked at those last year. Interesting to watch
 
Anyone have stats on the 2025 portal? I wonder how many entered, how many had to drop a division or how many weren't signed at all
 
If you google the question, there are multiple articles that come up with differing numbers.

This source cites 2,033 as of April 10, 2025-
frontofficesports.com

Over 2,000 Men’s Basketball Players Have Entered Transfer Portal

The transfer portal opened March 24 and will close April 22. Many schools have seen more than half their roster enter the portal.
frontofficesports.com frontofficesports.com

Another source says 2,320 (as of Aug. 9, 2025)-
frontofficesports.com

NCAA Transfer Portal Hits Record Numbers—Again

There are success stories for players who have entered the portal, but there are many instances of players returning to their previous programs.
frontofficesports.com frontofficesports.com

Other sources give varying numbers between 2,000 and 2,500

Verbalcommits.com can be set to show the 2025 portal transfer entries, and they listed an even higher number- 2,652 -
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This source says there are 2,901 players in the portal already -
more than half the total number of DI players on the 365 rosters, but of course the 2,901 would include a number if D2 guys.
 
Kososaur said:
So those are numbers in the portal. How many didn't get offers?
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in 2025, multiple reports claimed that almost 50% of the ~2,700 who were in the portal, never found a place to play in 2025-26,
although some (like Timoty van der Knaap's brother Jacopo van der Knapp & Trey Pettigrew) landed outside of DI at D2 or juco, and
maybe escaped being counted...
 
The school names and symbols that website uses (Bradley, UNI, Drake) on that page represent the schools recruiting those players. They are all current juco players.
Those were offers made by MVC teams in the past few months.
The Bradley offer to Ryan Hunt was posted on Bradleyfans back in January, Hunt, the 7' Australian big man that Bradley offered and was following at Eastern Arizona College, already gave a verbal commitment to TCU.
Braylon Roman is still uncommitted and Bradley is still following. And Sean Register committed to Liberty over the other offers he had.
 
Add Drake’s Wilguens Exacte, UNI’s Ismael Diouf & InSU’s Derek Vorst in the portal.

There’s roughly 5400 total DI players
And about 1600-1700 are seniors & out of eligibility or walk-ons.
Of the remaining 3700 or so, about 1700 are already in the portal with more to come.
So over 40% of all DI players with eligibility for 2026-27 are transferring - and it could approach 50% by the time the portal closes.
 
Kososaur said:
Anyone have stats on the 2025 portal? I wonder how many entered, how many had to drop a division or how many weren't signed at all
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I read an article in the Fall last year that the number of football and basketball portal players not finding a home was pretty consistent at about 60%.
 
CarolinaBrave said:
I read an article in the Fall last year that the number of football and basketball portal players not finding a home was pretty consistent at about 60%.
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Wasn't expecting it to be that high, I'd think that's the number not getting D1 offers, many are getting D2 or D3. Either way, the kids have to know that it's a possibility, so I wonder how many of those were coaches choice rather than the players. Teams still need players, rosters would have about 1/3 open slots if that many kids are out.
 
Kososaur said:
Wasn't expecting it to be that high, I'd think that's the number not getting D1 offers, many are getting D2 or D3. Either way, the kids have to know that it's a possibility, so I wonder how many of those were coaches choice rather than the players. Teams still need players, rosters would have about 1/3 open slots if that many kids are out.
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I think the portal makes it much easier for a coach to tell a kid that he is not coming back next year. I image many of those players end up in D2 or D3 programs somewhere.
 
A lot of guys get bad information/told what they want to hear about teams being interested in them with a monetary package that never come to fruition
 
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