It’s not just a talent-acquisition business; it’s also a talent-development business. Medved touts how he just coached his third NBA player at Colorado State. Nique Clifford is projected as a late-round pick in June. He would join Minneapolis natives David Roddy (Houston Rockets) and Isaiah Stevens (Miami Heat) in the league.

The pendulum has swung hard toward player empowerment when it comes to transfer rules, and the results aren't all bad for basketball fans.

The college basketball transfer portal officially opened for business last Monday, and now enters Week 2. The Final Four is set, and nearly every Division I team has entered transfer portal mode, trying to rebuild for 2025-26.

Efrem “Butta” Johnson on Tuesday became the second UAB basketball player in as many days to enter the NCAA transfer portal.

Griffen is the fifth KU men’s basketball player to enter the portal and the third to do so in the last two days. He joins guards Rakease Passmore, David Coit and big men Flory Bidunga and Zach Clemence as players leaving coach Bill Self’s program.

Notable: Kentucky has dipped into the NCAA transfer portal before to pick up a standout guard from Georgia (Sahvir Wheeler), and Pope is targeting another one in the 6-foot-5 Demary, who has started 69 of Georgia’s 70 games over the last two seasons.

Michigan State junior guard has made the decision to forgo his senior year in East Lansing and enter the NCAA transfer portal

Thanks to portal defections, the Robert Morris team that pushed Alabama hard in the NCAA tournament won’t resemble the one that plays at Iowa in seven months.