2014-15 College Basketball Transfers, Rumors, Grads, and Packed Bag Updates

[jbcarol]

http://zagsblog.com/articles/college-transfer-list

[jbcarol]

Xavier forward Justin Martin is free to move about the country for his final season of college basketball. Martin will graduate from Xavier this May and will seek a transfer out for his final year of eligibility.

He's listed at 6-6, 205-pounds and he averaged 11.7 points and 5.2 rebounds per game for the Musketeers in 2013-14.

http://kentuckysportsradio.com/basketball-2/a-new-graduate-transfer-option-emerges

[jbcarol]

http://kentuckysportsradio.com/basketball-2/learn-more-about-bryce-dejean-jones-and-justin-martin

5th year seniors ready for immediate playing time after transfer.

[ChicoHog]

I think way too many kids are transferring now.  Not fond of the 5th year senior rule.  I'm still old school and think if a player transfers then they should have to sit a year unless they go to a D2 school. 

[k.c.hawg]

I think way too many kids are transferring now.  Not fond of the 5th year senior rule.  I'm still old school and think if a player transfers then they should have to sit a year unless they go to a D2 school. 

I like the fact that a kid can take care of his business and get his degree and earn the opportunity to go create a better situation for himself. There are some kids out there getting their degree in 3 years and going to play their 4th year somewhere else. Russell Wilson was more than likely going to sit on the bench his senior season at NC State behind Mike Glennon.....Wilson by taking care of his business was able to go to Wisconsin, play in a Rose Bowl and get drafted by the Seahawks. Glennon became the starter at NC State and was drafted by the Bucaneers.

Considering the number of student athletes that never graduate, the number that transfer because they aren't getting enough playing time....I have no problem giving the ones that get their degree the option of playing their last season elsewhere if they consider it to be a better situation for themselves. They are leaving their previous institution in good standing APR wise and in a sense have fulfilled what should be the original intent of getting a degree.

[jbcarol]

Ben Roberts ‏@NextCats ·15 hrs
Bryce Dejean-Jones ... RT @B2nyce Had a great weekend in Ames my first time there but won't be the last I've decided I wanna be a Cyclone!

Ben Roberts ‏@NextCats
Bryce Dejean-Jones -- a 6-5 guard -- averaged 13.6 points as junior at UNLV this season. Definitely leaving Rebels after graduating in May.

[jbcarol]

Adam Zagoria ‏@AdamZagoria ·10 mins
College Transfer List http://zagsblog.com/articles/college-transfer-list/ ...

[jbcarol]

Ben Frederickson ‏@Ben_Fred ·14 hrs
Tennessee State graduate transfer M.J. Rhett is no longer considering the #Vols, he told @GoVolsXtra ...

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN ·12 hrs
Tennessee State transfer MJ Rhett (@@carolinaboy_4) has been to Oklahoma State, Tulane and Ole Miss. Will visit USC Friday and Miami Monday.

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN ·12 hrs
Rhett -- who will be eligible next season as a fifth-year grad transfer, said he got off phone tonight with Kevin Ollie. UConn interested.

[jbcarol]

Nolan Cressler ‏@NacFlow_3 ·19 hrs
Excited to say that I'm going to Vanderbilt university next year! #AnchorDown


6-4 shooter averaged 17 ppg for Cornell.

[jbcarol]

Ben Frederickson ‏@Ben_Fred  4h
Updates: #Vols G Robert Hubbs told his hometown paper he isn't transferring...

[jbcarol]

Byron Wesley ‏@byron_wesley  23m
I would like to announce that I have decided to graduate from USC this summer and transfer for my final year of college basketball.

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN  39m
Marshall transfer Kareem Canty will visit Auburn, South Florida and Penn State.

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN ·1h
Keep being told per multiple industry sources that Florida is in the mix for Michigan transfer Jon Horford.

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN ·1 hr
Jon Horford's brother, Al, had a good amount of success under Billy Donovan at Florida. Would make sense. Gators lack frontcourt depth.

[jbcarol]

Adam Zagoria ‏@AdamZagoria  Apr 18
Whose transfer was shorter, Chris Obekpa or Jerome Seagears? Seagears  enrolled in another school. Auburn, or "the moon" as he called it.

Adam Zagoria ‏@AdamZagoria  Apr 18
Obekpa to Return to St. John's...

[jbcarol]

Jon Rothstein ‏@JonRothstein  22m
Bruce Pearl has a floor general RT @CBTonNBC: Report: Former Marshall guard Kareem Canty transferring to Auburn http://wp.me/p1aWjM-24Bb

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN  7h
Transfer List is now at 400 total players since the start of the season. Here's the updated list: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10702122/tracking-every-transfer-2014-offseason-college-basketball ...

[HoopS]

Seagears.   Didn't we pursue him?

[jbcarol]

Seagears.   Didn't we pursue him?

S, yes indeed.

http://www.hogville.net/yabbse/index.php?topic=540135.50

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN ·3h
Marshall transfer Kareem Canty backs off Auburn commitment, tells ESPN he will visit South Florida: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10811749/kareem-canty-backs-auburn-commit-visit-usf ...

[jbcarol]

Georgia rising senior F/C Tim Dixon is transferring. The seldom used, slender big man from Columus (sic) via the Oldsmar School in Florida was expected to compete for minutes with incoming freshmen Yante Maten and Osahen Iduwe next year...

[jbcarol]

Derek Willis' high school coach says you should ignore any rumors that the sophomore-to-be is thinking about transferring from UK. Remember, Rex Chapman is on record as tweeting that Willis will have a much bigger role next season.

http://johnclay.bloginky.com/2014/04/23/bbl-john-wall-and-wizards-beat-bulls-and-critics

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN ·21 hrs
IUPUI transfer Ian Chiles has visited Auburn, and is looking at Maryland, Tennessee, South Florida and Western Kentucky.

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN  17h
Updated Transfer List -- now up to 415 players: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10702122/tracking-every-transfer-2014-offseason-college-basketball ...

[jbcarol]

Pat Forde ‏@YahooForde  41m
Kentucky F Derek Willis weighing transfer options, per multiple sources. Not a surprise. Barely played as a freshman, will be same next yr.

[jbcarol]

Kevin Brockway ‏@gatorhoops ·17 hrs
Virginia's McGee may consider transfer to Florida - http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20140425/articles/140429691 ... - via @Gator_sports

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN ·44 mins
Florida has landed Michigan transfer Jon Horford, sources told ESPN. Eligible next season. Will help Gators frontcourt depth.

[Break & Run]

OF course Al's little bro goes to his alma mater.

[jbcarol]

Pat Forde ‏@YahooForde  41m
Kentucky F Derek Willis weighing transfer options, per multiple sources. Not a surprise. Barely played as a freshman, will be same next yr.

According to Mr. Willis, the Pat Forde report is false, and "Derek 100% plans on coming back to Kentucky."

Per Derek Willis's father:

Derek knows he has to work hard in the off-season and knows with the Harrison twins and everyone coming back that playing time will be tough. But he believes he can earn it. He just wants to work hard in the off-season, and he knows his time is coming.

Thin 6-9 SF who buried the three in the public scrimmage and exhibition game season but threw up bricks and seldom played during the SEC schedule.

[jbcarol]

Pat Forde ‏@YahooForde  16h
Derek Willis update: Del Willis, Derek's dad, says this afternoon that he talked to his son today and he "seemed firm" on staying at UK.

[jbcarol]

Ben Frederickson ‏@Ben_Fred  1h
Per @GoodmanESPN, Purdue transfer Ronnie Johnson will visit UT this week. #Vols, Xavier, Houston in mix. 10.8 ppg, 3.7 apg as sophomore.

[jbcarol]

Vincent Vega ‏@derek_willis33  59m
I am not transferring or leaving Kentucky quit bothering me about the situation . It is annoying and untrue #BBN

[jbcarol]

Chip Miller ‏@BLUEChip_Miller 1m
Kansas point guard Naadir Tharpe is expected to transfer, sources told @GoodmanESPN.

[yraciv]

Chip Miller ‏@BLUEChip_Miller 1m
Kansas point guard Naadir Tharpe is expected to transfer, sources told @GoodmanESPN.

This one surprises me. Starter for a national program, and it's not like Kansas has any PG coming in yet.  I guess that leaves Mason to takes over.  They are still on the top PG left on the board, Devonte Graham, but ironically he goes to the same high school Tharpe went too.

[jbcarol]

This one surprises me. Starter for a national program, and it's not like Kansas has any PG coming in yet.  I guess that leaves Mason to takes over.  They are still on the top PG left on the board, Devonte Graham, but ironically he goes to the same high school Tharpe went too.

Reports that Tharpe will not graduate in 2014 from KU. He will not be able to play immediately.

[jbcarol]

While the word "epidemic" might attach a little bit too much hysteria to the issue of player transfers, it has become a much more accepted practice in the sport today.

"We joke about it," said Matt Green, an AAU coach in Indianapolis, "like it's a free-agent market after the Final Four."

"They transfer high schools. They transfer AAU teams," Coach Barry Hinson said. "The numbers are skewed somewhat, but the highest majority of the numbers are those guys, I honestly believe, that are going for greener grass."

Jeff Goodman, a national college basketball reporter for ESPN, tracks transfers on an annual basis. In 2011, his list included 291 names. In 2013, it reached 455.

That uptick, while noticeable, requires context. If all 351 Division I men's basketball programs handed out 13 scholarships, then 455 player transfers would represent about 10 percent of all scholarship players in Division I.

That number isn't entirely surprising. According to figures compiled by Sports Illustrated, between 2007 and 2012, transfer rates in Division I men's basketball ticked up 1.1 percent, from 10.8 percent in 2007-08 to 11.9 percent in 2011-12.

There's no exact science to determine whether Hinson's "greener grass" statement is correct either.

SI's analysis calls it "up-transferring" — moving from a smaller program to a larger one, in terms of stature (Evan Gordon moving from Liberty to Arizona State to Indiana qualified as two cases of "up-transferring" in the SI piece). Their analysis showed that the number of "up-transfers" jumped from 12 in 2011-12 to 30 the following season.

The NCAA's own research into transfers after the 2012-13 season suggests that "90 percent" of transfers in that class said they moved for "athletic reasons." It also asserts that, of the 44 percent that transferred from one D-I school to another, most moved "to a less competitive program where playing time might be more available."

Jeff Goodman's 2014 Transfer List

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10702122/tracking-every-transfer-2014-offseason-college-basketball

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN  May 2
Maryland's Seth Allen told ESPN that he plans to transfer...

[jbcarol]

Ben Frederickson @Ben_Fred  ·  45m
Kevin Punter on scheduled meeting with Missouri: "If I do meet with him (Anderson) it will be tomorrow. You could say it's 50-50 right now."

Ben Frederickson @Ben_Fred  ·  37m
If I could predict where players will sign, I'd live in Vegas. That said, Punter seems high on #Vols. Says he'll announce on Twitter: @_KP5

[jbcarol]

UK has expressed interest in Eron Harris.

[jbcarol]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN ·22 hrs
Updated transfer list with in excess of 500 players. The record last year was 550: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10702122/tracking-every-transfer-2014-offseason-college-basketball ...

[jbcarol]

LSU PG Anthony Hickey, Jr. could appeal to the NCAA for a "run-off" waiver that would allow him to play immediately elsewhere.

Anthony Hickey Sr., the guard's father, told The Advocate that his son was informed last week that the program does not intend to renew his scholarship. The rising senior had his run-ins with coach Johnny Jones in the past two seasons, largely over missed classes and study hall periods.

Ron Higgins: While Hickey led the SEC in assists to turnover ratio, he may not have liked the fact his playing time was about to be cut with the signing of incoming backcourt talent Josh Gray and Keith Hornsby. Gray and Hornsby are bigger, physical guards, something that LSU lacked last year when larger opposing guards would shove aside smaller Tiger guards, break down LSU's defense and force Tigers' big men to have to constantly defend the rim.

[jbcarol]

COLUMBIA - The South Carolina men's basketball roster continues its offseason makeover this month.

Jaylen Shaw, a rising sophomore, will transfer from the program, according to multiple reports. Shaw, a 6-foot guard from Hartsville, averaged three points...

Shaw is South Carolina's second player this month to transfer from the program. He joins sophomore forward Desmond Ringer, who will play next season at Mercer.

Shaw averaged just under 10-12 minutes per game.

[jbcarol]

South Florida transfer John Egbunu has committed to Florida...

He will have three years of eligibility after sitting out the 2014-15 season. In his one season at South Florida, the 6-foot-10 center averaged 7.4 points and 6.2 rebounds.

Florida continues to get off to a great start in the 2015 recruiting class, as the Gators add Egbunu to four-star prospects KeVaughn Allen and Kevarrius Hayes.

[jbcarol]

 Ben Frederickson @Ben_Fred  ·  15h

Winfred Jordan, AAU coach of Ga Tech transfer Robert Carter Jr., said Tyndall spoke w/ Carter today. #Vols hoping to get one of his 5 visits


UGa has been blocked by GaTech.

The 6-8 Carter averaged 11.4 and 8.4 in under 27 mpg for GaTech. He is a rising junior.

[jbcarol]

Ole Miss center Demarco Cox is 6-foot-8, 276-pound center who averaged 4.2 points and 3.9 rebounds in 16.6 minutes last season. Cox is expected to graduate this summer and would be immediately eligible to play his senior season. His AAU coach, Omahr Carter, said Cox is leaning toward GaTech.

Former 4-star counting toward Houston Nutt's team recruiting ranking at Ole Miss.

[jbcarol]

Ole Miss center Demarco Cox is 6-foot-8, 276-pound center who averaged 4.2 points and 3.9 rebounds in 16.6 minutes last season. Cox is expected to graduate this summer and would be immediately eligible to play his senior season. His AAU coach, Omahr Carter, said Cox is leaning toward GaTech.

Former 4-star counting toward Houston Nutt's team recruiting ranking at Ole Miss.

GaTech for DeMarco Cox

[jbcarol]

Mississippi State announced in a release on Friday that redshirt freshman guard Jacoby Davis intends to transfer to be closer to his home in Charlotte.

Davis' mother, Michelle, has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and Davis wants to be closer to her.

The 6-foot-1 guard was head coach Rick Ray's first recruit at Mississippi State and missed his freshman season after tearing his ACL during individual workouts. Davis returned to the floor this season as a reserve and averaged 2.2 points and 1.2 rebounds per game in 28 games for the Bulldogs.

State finished 14-19 and placed last in the SEC with a 3-15 record in 2013-14. Junior Trivante Bloodman and freshman and Little Rock native I.J. Ready are both slated to return and should carry the bulk of the ball handling responsibilities...

[jbcarol]

Jeff Ermann ‏@insidemdsports 17h
Hearing Terps PG transfer Roddy Peters is down to USF, Rhode Island, #Vols and #Ducks...

[jbcarol]

Reports that lead guard KC Ross-Miller, a former LSU signee and Billy Gillispie commit at Kentucky is transferring to play for Bruce Pearl at Auburn.

He played for Tim Miller at God's Academy in Dallas and AAU for Brandon Bass Elite.

KC is expected to graduate from NewMexSt this summer allowing him to help Pearl immediately.

KC Ross-Miller @KCRossMiller12
Excited to be apart of #AUBasketball. Ready to make that next step with my team. Our best is yet to come #WarEagle #SECbound
11:13 PM - 19 May 2014

[jbcarol]

Michael Carvell @RecruitingAJC  ·  53m
Phil Cofer signed non-binding aid w/ FSU. He's technically still a free agent. Will only be officially FSU's on 1st day he attends class


Former Vol signee whose father played football at UT.

[jbcarol]

UNLV adds former Tennessee-signee Jordan Cornish