With the middle of the week here, I thought it was a good time to take a much-needed break from football. For some time now, I've been digging for some stats on transfer rates for college basketball programs. Verbal Commits is a great resource and has this data for the past four seasons, so I was interested to see where Pitt stacked up among other schools.
Here's what I came up with. The numbers (which I obviously can't personally account for) shown are the number of transfers a school lost from 2012-2015:
17 - Arizona State
15 - Rutgers
14 - Auburn, Texas Tech
13 - Louisville, Oregon
12 - Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Utah
11 - Alabama, Iowa State, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, West Virginia
10 - Maryland, Washington State
9 - PITT, Kansas State, Mississippi State, Penn State, Texas A&M, Wake Forest
8 - Boston College, Georgia Tech, Illinois, North Carolina State, Purdue, UCLA, USC, Washington
7 - LSU, Michigan
6 - Arkansas, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas, Vanderbilt
5 - Colorado, Florida State, Georgia, Iowa, Miami, Minnesota, Northwestern
4 - Arizona, Baylor, Duke, Oklahoma, Virginia
3 - Michigan State, Notre Dame, TCU
2 - Kentucky, Ohio State, Stanford, Syracuse, Wisconsin
0 - North Carolina
Something to keep in mind here, obviously, is the list of schools that have endured coaching changes over that time.