Head spinning with all of the transfer portal entries. Up to 800+.

Cannot underestimate the void Luke will leave for us no longer having a defensive stopper. Huge need to bring in someone with the same defensive mentality, or have an existing player assume that mantle, but don't see it with the latter. Luke had it from the beginning in his HS days.

Transfers Coming to the CAA:
Delaware: SO 6'3 Logan Curtis (ECU), JR 6'1 Jameer Nelson Jr. (GW)
Towson: RS SR 6'4 Terry Nolan (Bradley)
UNCW: SO 6'6 Trazarien White (Collin)

Potential Transfers Leaving the CAA:
CofC: GRAD 6'1 Zep Jasper (Auburn), JR 6'5 DeAngelo Epps, SO 6'7 Dontavius King (NCCU), GRAD 6'2 Brevin Galloway (BC), JR 6'2 Brenden Tucker
Elon: SO 6'6 Brandon Harris
Hofstra: GRAD 6'9 Kevin Schutte
JMU: JR 6'3 Jayvis Harvey, JR 6'6 TJ Taylor, JR 6’6 Michael Christmas
Northeastern: SO 6'6 J'Vonne Hadley, JR 6'0 Tyson Walker, GRAD 6'6 Shaquille Walters
Towson: SR 6'2 Jakigh Dottin
UNCW: SR 6'5 Brian Tolefree, JR 6'7 Jake Boggs, JR 6'6 Imajae Dodd, JR 6'5 Joe Pridgen, GRAD 6'7 John Bowen
WM: GRAD 6'4 Luke Loewe

WM Interest:
GRAD 6'5 Austin Butler, Holy Cross (Bollinger 3/3)
JR 6'9 Chase Barrs, Western Michigan (Kemp 3/10)
GRAD 6'1 Conley Garrison, Drury (Boatner 3/11)
RS JR 6'3 Dale Bonner, Fairmont St (Kemp* 3/15, Howland 3/17)
GRAD 6'7 Kaiden Rice, Citadel (Howland* 3/16)
SO 6'3 Tyler Kolek, GMU (Howland 3/18)
JR 5'10 Jalen Benjamin, UAB (tweet 3/20)
RS SR 6'7 Sam Iorio, South Alabama (Bollinger 3/22)
GRAD 5'11 Jarrod West, Marshall (Howland 3/23)

(03-24-2021 11:33 AM)Tribeheart Wrote:  Head spinning with all of the transfer portal entries. Up to 800+.

Cannot underestimate the void Luke will leave for us no longer having a defensive stopper. Huge need to bring in someone with the same defensive mentality, or have an existing player assume that mantle, but don't see it with the latter. Luke had it from the beginning in his HS days.

Wasn't Yuri supposed to be a strong on ball defender? Not saying he'll be as good as Luke next year, but that's a potential spot to take up that mantle next year.

Yuri's got the quickness and athleticism to be a great on-ball defender, but didn't display that this year, and I don't recall that being a calling card in HS. It's one of two areas I hope he'll really focus on in the off-season. That and turnovers. He was tied for 4th on the team in steals and should be able to impact that stat much more.

(03-24-2021 11:33 AM)Tribeheart Wrote:  Head spinning with all of the transfer portal entries. Up to 800+.

Cannot underestimate the void Luke will leave for us no longer having a defensive stopper. Huge need to bring in someone with the same defensive mentality, or have an existing player assume that mantle, but don't see it with the latter. Luke had it from the beginning in his HS days.

This is supposed to be Julian Lewis' calling card, but that's a lot to ask of a freshman. Agree with you that it would be great to bring in a grad transfer or immediately eligible transfer who has this trait.

We are going to miss Luke ... a lot ... in many ways.

Noticed Xavier RS Sr F Jason Carter is in the grad transfer portal. The one-time Ohio player was very close to Coach Kemp, if I remember correctly. I'm not sure he'd be interested in moving to a mid major for his final season, however. 6'8 230lbs. Averaged around 7ppg /6 rebs in his time at Xavier. Averaged about 17 at Ohio before the transfer. He's a grown man who would be an impact player in the CAA.

Towson RS Soph Demetrius Mims Jr has entered the portal

(03-24-2021 02:38 PM)Naptown Tribe Wrote:  [quote='Tribeheart' pid='17346478' dateline='1616603633']
Head spinning with all of the transfer portal entries. Up to 800+.

Cannot underestimate the void Luke will leave for us no longer having a defensive stopper. Huge need to bring in someone with the same defensive mentality, or have an existing player assume that mantle, but don't see it with the latter. Luke had it from the beginning in his HS days.

This is supposed to be Julian Lewis' calling card, but that's a lot to ask of a freshman. Agree with you that it would be great to bring in a grad transfer or immediately eligible transfer who has this trait.

We are going to miss Luke ... a lot ... in many

Out of curiosity, I took a look at Luke's twitter.

He's been followed by coaches at Utah State, Montana State, UIC, Incarnate Word, Colorado State, Troy, Hawaii, Cal State Northridge, Bryant, UW-Milwaukee, South Dakota State, and Loyola.

I don't know if P5 coaches are less likely to follow players, but I would think he has his sights set on a P6 team, or at least a top tier mid major. Utah State and Loyola are both very solid programs, and Colorado State is on the upswing, but I was expecting some bigger name schools.

(03-23-2021 07:07 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(03-23-2021 05:51 PM)Tribal Wrote:  Best of luck to Luke. The years of guys like Nate and Marcus playing out eligibility at W&M may be a wrap.

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I think the days of guys playing out their eligibility at most schools is a wrap. A productive RS Jr at the mid major level is as good as gone.

Don't forget Luke isn't playing for the coach who didn't recruit him and almost certainly would have left if he had received anything more than minimal attention on the transfer market two years ago.

You may yet be right. But until we see guys like Connor outplay their recruiting status and immediately mercenary their way upwards, I will not have seen enough evidence for it.

(03-24-2021 08:34 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  Out of curiosity, I took a look at Luke's twitter.

He's been followed by coaches at Utah State, Montana State, UIC, Incarnate Word, Colorado State, Troy, Hawaii, Cal State Northridge, Bryant, UW-Milwaukee, South Dakota State, and Loyola.

I don't know if P5 coaches are less likely to follow players, but I would think he has his sights set on a P6 team, or at least a top tier mid major. Utah State and Loyola are both very solid programs, and Colorado State is on the upswing, but I was expecting some bigger name schools.

Luke played every bit as well as Pierce did before he transferred and appreciably better than Milon, who had several P5 offers, including Ohio State. I understand that the overall talent level in D1 is now going to be much higher and that there are many fewer starting spots available now but even so...this would be a very underwhelming list. I don't think CSU, USU, SDSU have meaningful open spots unless people are leaving that I don't see. In a normal year, I would think a school like Wisconsin has a hometown spot with six of their eight rotation guys being seniors. But no idea how many of those guys are staying now.

(03-24-2021 08:34 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  Out of curiosity, I took a look at Luke's twitter.

He's been followed by coaches at Utah State, Montana State, UIC, Incarnate Word, Colorado State, Troy, Hawaii, Cal State Northridge, Bryant, UW-Milwaukee, South Dakota State, and Loyola.

I don't know if P5 coaches are less likely to follow players, but I would think he has his sights set on a P6 team, or at least a top tier mid major. Utah State and Loyola are both very solid programs, and Colorado State is on the upswing, but I was expecting some bigger name schools.

I assume you meant Loyola of Chicago. There are also Loyola (MD (Baltimore)) which plays in the Patriot League and Loyola Marymount which is in the West Coast Conference. Just based on your list, it could just as easily have been one of those (although Loyola Marymount does usually go by that name). There is also a Loyola in New Orleans but they don't play Division I. Luke might go to Milwaukee for obvious reasons but the only reason to go to those other schools rather than stay another year at W&M would be if they offered a grad degree in a field that W&M does not offer. Maybe he wants to go fishing in Hawai'i.

(03-24-2021 08:51 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  

(03-23-2021 11:44 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  Coach Howland has started following 5’11 Jarrod West, a grad transfer from Marshall. So far he has followed back coaches from Rhode Island, Georgetown, San Diego, Iona, and Utah Valley.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...est-2.html
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/jarrod-west

Junior year highlights:
https://youtu.be/8HpC2bD_99Q

Jake Weingarten in a couple of tweets says Jarrod West has been contacted by West Virginia, GA Tech, Duquesne, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Florida, Georgetown, Ohio State, Texas, Rhode Island, and Wichita State. West is from WV and his father played for WVU.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jakeweingarte...0846855168

An article on Zagsblog says Jarrod West has received offers from Rhode Island, Louisville, Pitt, and Wichita St. West says he wants to commit “sooner rather than later.”

https://www.zagsblog.com/2021/03/24/mars...han-later/

The offer process with transfers is a little frustrating; some transfers keep getting offers but most never announce any offers even though they’re talking with schools and eventually commit somewhere. For WM it’s hard to know if a player they start following is a passing interest or someone they really want because we never hear of any offers.

(03-24-2021 11:50 PM)Zorch Wrote:  

(03-24-2021 08:34 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  Out of curiosity, I took a look at Luke's twitter.

He's been followed by coaches at Utah State, Montana State, UIC, Incarnate Word, Colorado State, Troy, Hawaii, Cal State Northridge, Bryant, UW-Milwaukee, South Dakota State, and Loyola.

I don't know if P5 coaches are less likely to follow players, but I would think he has his sights set on a P6 team, or at least a top tier mid major. Utah State and Loyola are both very solid programs, and Colorado State is on the upswing, but I was expecting some bigger name schools.

I assume you meant Loyola of Chicago. There are also Loyola (MD (Baltimore)) which plays in the Patriot League and Loyola Marymount which is in the West Coast Conference. Just based on your list, it could just as easily have been one of those (although Loyola Marymount does usually go by that name). There is also a Loyola in New Orleans but they don't play Division I. Luke might go to Milwaukee for obvious reasons but the only reason to go to those other schools rather than stay another year at W&M would be if they offered a grad degree in a field that W&M does not offer. Maybe he wants to go fishing in Hawai'i.

Good point above. I was a little deflated when I saw the list, in part because I was hoping Luke would get some higher level interest and two, I don’t see W&M taking a backseat in basketball or anything else to this collection of schools.

I think Luke could generate a lot of excitement at Kaplan next year. If he doesn’t get a much higher profile opportunity, I hope he sticks.

Of course that’s a fan view. Luke could have many other interests to pursue. All the best and if he is fully out, just sorry I didn’t see him play more often for us.

Coach Howland and rising RS JR Jimmy Nichols Jr. (who entered the transfer portal from Providence an hour ago) are now following each other. Nichols Jr. is originally from Conway, SC.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...ols-1.html
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/jimmy-nichols-jr

(03-25-2021 07:02 AM)Sitting bull Wrote:  

(03-24-2021 11:50 PM)Zorch Wrote:  

(03-24-2021 08:34 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  Out of curiosity, I took a look at Luke's twitter.

He's been followed by coaches at Utah State, Montana State, UIC, Incarnate Word, Colorado State, Troy, Hawaii, Cal State Northridge, Bryant, UW-Milwaukee, South Dakota State, and Loyola.

I don't know if P5 coaches are less likely to follow players, but I would think he has his sights set on a P6 team, or at least a top tier mid major. Utah State and Loyola are both very solid programs, and Colorado State is on the upswing, but I was expecting some bigger name schools.

I assume you meant Loyola of Chicago. There are also Loyola (MD (Baltimore)) which plays in the Patriot League and Loyola Marymount which is in the West Coast Conference. Just based on your list, it could just as easily have been one of those (although Loyola Marymount does usually go by that name). There is also a Loyola in New Orleans but they don't play Division I. Luke might go to Milwaukee for obvious reasons but the only reason to go to those other schools rather than stay another year at W&M would be if they offered a grad degree in a field that W&M does not offer. Maybe he wants to go fishing in Hawai'i.

Good point above. I was a little deflated when I saw the list, in part because I was hoping Luke would get some higher level interest and two, I don’t see W&M taking a backseat in basketball or anything else to this collection of schools.

I think Luke could generate a lot of excitement at Kaplan next year. If he doesn’t get a much higher profile opportunity, I hope he sticks.

Of course that’s a fan view. Luke could have many other interests to pursue. All the best and if he is fully out, just sorry I didn’t see him play more often for us.

Yes, Loyola Chicago.

And I had the same thought, Luke might stick around here over going to South Dakota State, but again this is just based on twitter follows, so he could have plenty of other coaches contacting him

(03-25-2021 12:16 PM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  Coach Howland and rising RS JR Jimmy Nichols Jr. (who entered the transfer portal from Providence an hour ago) are now following each other. Nichols Jr. is originally from Conway, SC.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...ols-1.html
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/jimmy-nichols-jr

Perhaps Howland and Nichols know one another with Howland's coaching history in South Carolina.

(03-25-2021 05:46 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  

(03-24-2021 08:51 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  

(03-23-2021 11:44 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  Coach Howland has started following 5’11 Jarrod West, a grad transfer from Marshall. So far he has followed back coaches from Rhode Island, Georgetown, San Diego, Iona, and Utah Valley.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...est-2.html
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/jarrod-west

Junior year highlights:
https://youtu.be/8HpC2bD_99Q

Jake Weingarten in a couple of tweets says Jarrod West has been contacted by West Virginia, GA Tech, Duquesne, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Florida, Georgetown, Ohio State, Texas, Rhode Island, and Wichita State. West is from WV and his father played for WVU.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jakeweingarte...0846855168

An article on Zagsblog says Jarrod West has received offers from Rhode Island, Louisville, Pitt, and Wichita St. West says he wants to commit “sooner rather than later.”

https://www.zagsblog.com/2021/03/24/mars...han-later/

The offer process with transfers is a little frustrating; some transfers keep getting offers but most never announce any offers even though they’re talking with schools and eventually commit somewhere. For WM it’s hard to know if a player they start following is a passing interest or someone they really want because we never hear of any offers.

Jake Weingarten tweets:

“ Marshall transfer Jarrod West tells
@Stockrisers
that Rhode Island and Miami both just offered and he will virtually meet with both staff’s tomorrow. In addition, he will also virtually meet with UF’s Mike White tomorrow as well.

Plus, Virginia and Vanderbilt have reached out.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/jakeweingarte...6098181121

Hofstra Frosh G Vukašin Mašić has entered the transfer portal.

Another possible GMU/Fischer connection. GMU JR G Jordan Miller has entered the transfer portal. One of Mason's top scorers, averaged 15.8 ppg