Kansas ahead, USC hit and other results of the 2023

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Personnel WriterJul 25, 2023, 08:30 AM ET

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• Basketball recruiting expert.
• Joined ESPN in 2014.
• Graduate of University of Delaware.Just when it appeared safe to come out of the transfer website for the final time this offseason, previous Harvard forward Chris Ledlum decommitted from Tennessee and went back into the website– on July 13. Fortunately for diehard portal watchers, he committed to St. John’s a week later, indicating every player in ESPN’s leading 100 transfer rankings is now off the board.So even if there are some late entrants into the website, it’s time to take stock of the comings and

  goings of this offseason’s portal activities.It’s a sign of the times that we have actually waited more than 4 months after the website window opened to finally examine the winners,

  losers and everything in between. The potentially record-setting variety of portal entrants this spring can be found in waves. There was the initial surge, when the window initially opened March 13, then a constant stream for the next number of weeks till after the NCAA tournament. What followed was a lull till the days leading up to the window closing Might 13, when there was another increase. When the window closed for undergraduate transfers, things slowed down significantly, but graduate transfers and players who withdrew their names from the NBA draft continued to enter.What’s next? Two-time transfers anxiously watch whether college football players in comparable scenarios get waivers from the NCAA to play right now.(More on waiver hopefuls later.)There are likewise coaches curious to see if any graduate transfers– for whom portal due dates do not apply– go on foreign tours with their present groups and decide to reenter the website if they’re dissatisfied with their role there.So, it holds true, the portal never really stops. However here’s our assessment of the 2023 guys’s college basketball transfer window: Thirteen groups that came out ahead