2024-25 men’s NCAA basketball transfer portal tracker: updates

Transfer portal season has become the busiest two months of the college basketball calendar. Entire rosters fall apart and get rebuilt in mere weeks, with some teams needing to go into the portal for 10 or 11 players. Coaching staffs spend two or three years recruiting high school players; and now, they spend two or three weeks — sometimes less — recruiting transfers.

There will be upward of 2,000 players in the portal by the time it closes for undergraduate students on May 1. The vast majority will find a new home in a similar timeframe.

It’s a lot to digest.

So, just like the coaching carousel tracker, we’re going to have a constantly updated transfer portal tracker this offseason. Find all of the latest intel and buzz on the available players in the portal. School lists, visit plans, target boards — all of the movement will be discussed here.

Keep track of ESPN’s ranking of the top 100 transfers here.

April 15

Indiana looking to make early splash in the portal

Mike Woodson is wasting no time rebuilding his roster after a down year in Bloomington.

The Hoosiers already landed Washington State‘s Myles Rice, one of the best point guards in the portal.

They’re also expected to host Stanford‘s Kanaan Carlyle for a visit this week. Carlyle is a former top-50 recruit capable of explosive performances.

Neither Rice nor Carlyle is a knockdown shooter, but Indiana is also pursuing Connor Hickman (Bradley) and Ryan Conwell (Indiana State) to fill that role.

Up front, the top target is No. 1 overall transfer Oumar Ballo. The Arizona big man is expected to visit Bloomington this week, and Indiana is thought to be in a pretty good spot.

Should Ballo leave his visit without committing, the Hoosiers could turn to Drexel‘s Amari Williams, who also visits later in the week. Ballo is the far superior offensive player, but Williams is a three-time CAA Defensive Player of the Year.

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Michigan looks to return to past glory with Dusty May hire

Take a look at the numbers behind Michigan’s hire of former Florida Atlantic basketball coach Dusty May.

Dusty May has Michigan in the mix for several top targets

May didn’t have a completely empty cupboard in Ann Arbor when he took over for Juwan Howard, and George Washington III added to the returnees when he opted to remove his name from the transfer portal and stay at Michigan. But the former Florida Atlantic coach is looking to build a competitive roster in year one, and he’s taking some big swings in the portal.

At the top of the target list: two of his former FAU players in Johnell Davis — arguably the top perimeter player in the portal — and center Vladislav Goldin.

Houston was also pursuing Davis, but the Cougars landed Milos Uzan over the weekend; is Kelvin Sampson’s program still in play?

Michigan is also in the mix for Yale‘s Danny Wolf, a…