This year, over 1,000 Division I men’s basketball players entered the transfer portal, making for another hectic period in which the “offseason” was very much just a second season for coaches and players alike. The former sought to keep rosters intact or rebuild them while the latter looked for new homes. It’s a trend that has left coaches exhausted, and in many cases, it’s nearly impossible to follow who is going, who is leaving, who is in high demand and who should be avoided.
CBS Sports’ Kyle Boone ranked the top 50 transfers, and from star bigs to sneaky guards, from small schools to big and vice versa, from surprising departures to expected adieus, it’s been a wild ride. Here’s how the top five players will immediately impact their new squads.
Dickinson isn’t perfect, but it’s easy to see why he’s first on these rankings: He just produces and produces and produces. Over the last 25 seasons, just four Big Ten players have averaged 18 points and nine rebounds while making at least 20 3-pointers in a season.
2009-10 Evan Turner (AP Player of the Year, Naismith Award, Wooden Award, First-Team All-America, Big Ten Player of the Year)2016-17 Caleb Swanigan (First-Team All-America, Big Ten Player of the Year, Naismith Award finalist, Wooden Award finalist)2019-20 Luka Garza (First-Team All-America, Big Ten Player of the Year, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award, Naismith Award finalist, Wooden Award finalist)2022-23 Hunter Dickinson
The awards say Turner, Swanigan and Garza put together all-time great seasons. Dickinson’s top honor last season was a second-team All-Big Ten nod after to a down year for Michigan. But Kansas seems like a program immune to down years, and now Dickinson will get the chance to be a top player on a top team.
Last season, Dickinson scored 286 points on post ups alone. That was fourth nationally, and two of the players ahead of him were Zach Edey and Drew Timme. There simply aren’t…
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