After one year -- despite its futuristic name -- the NCAA’s transfer portal has not quite taken college basketball into a distant utopia, free of its myriad issues of the past.
While players have often benefited from the mainstreamed mechanism to switch schools, rising transfer rates and unrest in the player-school relationship continue to put programs in a lurch.
It’s impacting state Division I basketball programs and players in a big way.
Take Detroit Mercy, for instance.
The Titans basketball program is ineligible for the 2019-20 postseason because of the high turnover rate, the nation’s only Division I men’s basketball program banned for failing to meet minimum standards in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Report.