There are countless opinion pieces floating around about the changing nature of college sports and NIL and conference realignment and the transfer portal. This isn’t that. This is first, a statement of the plain reality that the transfer portal and specifically intra-conference transferring are not likely to go away in the near future. 70% of teams in the Big 12 have an intra-conference transfer on their roster (Texas Tech has 2). Second, how is this reality playing out in the best men’s basketball conference in America?
Please be aware that the players evaluated here include De’Vion Harmon and Bryce Thompson.