NEWS: Arizona forward Henri Veesaar has entered the transfer portal, sources told ESPN. Averaged 9.4 points and 5.0 rebounds this season.

— Jeff Borzello (@jeffborzello) March 31, 2025

He always looked really active around the basket in the games I saw. Shot 33% from 3 this year too.

Arizona sophomore forward Henri Veesaar has gone portaling, source told @TheFieldOf68.

The 7-footer from Estonia averaged 9.4 points and 5.0 boards this past season.

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 31, 2025

Big12Fan2024 said:

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Are we sure we aren't paying him big dollars to stay? Some of our fans on the forum are upset they don't see us pursuing bigger names in the portal, but perhaps the reason why is that we don't have a lot of money left after what we have offered Wright to stay.

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Everything anyone connected with the program has said suggests rob wright is staying. Anyone saying otherwise is likely just speculating. And the nil budget from everything I've heard is big enough for Rob and to fill the roster to a competitive level. If drew hadn't been guaranteed that he would be at Kentucky.

I agree. If he had considered leaving, he would have already announced. I'm confident he's staying too. Neither I nor you, however, have any idea how much money he's getting or how much we have as an overall budget. I know a lot of people don't like the one-and-done transfers and I would prefer 2 or more year guys, but I really like that we started with a very good, true power forward. So, I'm confident we're off to a good start.

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TWD 1974 said:

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more then that i hope

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We're going to need more than one stretch 4 and 2 guards. Where still trying to put 5 on the court right?

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I trust Drew but have absolutely no clue what his plan is right now.

No team can return one single player from the previous year and expect to win anything. We're not going to bring in 11 transfers and we only have ONE freaking recruit coming in. So that's two players, and Rataj makes it 3. That means we need 5 more guys just to have a normal rotation without any injuries. If we start even a single walkon then we are done. Drew is a good coach but not even Coach K can win with RW3, a freshman 5-star, Rataj, and 5 walkons.

Next year is absolutely cooked unless something changes asap. Anybody have any idea what is happening? With the culture Drew built and our national title in 2021 I never could have guessed we'd be going through what we're going through right now.

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This is in contention for least-informed post of the year.

Mitch Henessey said:

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Buttpanda said:

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more then that i hope

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We're going to need more than one stretch 4 and 2 guards. Where still trying to put 5 on the court right?

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I trust Drew but have absolutely no clue what his plan is right now.

No team can return one single player from the previous year and expect to win anything. We're not going to bring in 11 transfers and we only have ONE freaking recruit coming in. So that's two players, and Rataj makes it 3. That means we need 5 more guys just to have a normal rotation without any injuries. If we start even a single walkon then we are done. Drew is a good coach but not even Coach K can win with RW3, a freshman 5-star, Rataj, and 5 walkons.

Next year is absolutely cooked unless something changes asap. Anybody have any idea what is happening? With the culture Drew built and our national title in 2021 I never could have guessed we'd be going through what we're going through right now.

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This is in contention for least-informed post of the year.

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An accolade I thought to have earned on more than one occasion.

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It's recruiting strategy. It's horrible roster construction something Drew has loosely admitted was part of this seasons failures. So the solution is to continue that strategy. Setting the stage for a complete rebuild again next off season? We're all entitled to our own opinions. Definitely respect you. But this strategy doesn't win. That's been proven over and over. High roster turnover every year is a choice. That's how Drew is choosing to construct his rosters at this point.

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It's not as simple as just finding multi-year guys that fit. Almost every multi-year guy we've added the past few years has left one way or another. Sochan, Missi, Little, Asemota, Grimes, just bad luck. Was recruiting all of these guys 100% better than recruiting seniors in their place? It's just hard to get guys to commit to multi-year roles in the current environment. Drew clearly desires less turnover, but it's not as simple as just finding guys willing to commit because he has done that.

That isn't to say that I prefer seniors because I would definitely rather have multi-year guys like you. I desperately miss developing guys like we did with most of that championship team. We've had some bad luck and external circumstances affect us the past few years. I have a hard time blaming it all on roster construction.

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Plenty of people are successfully doing it, Drew's just not doing a good job picking players. But the problem is he's missing talent wise or fit/coaching wise on too many guys. To be clear the problem is not Sochan and Missi like guys who are talented enough to go pro far earlier than expected.

The problem is Nunn, Grimes, Asemota, Dainja, Little, Cryer (ugh) and the list goes on, were either not very good at the end of the day or didn't get along with the culture in Drew's program. I'm fine with the idea we need to bring in some Senior transfers or one and done players that's the icing on the top of your roster, but the fact Drew is not getting any development out of almost literally everyone else on the roster is the problem.

I'll reserve my judgment but right now, I'm okay if we bring in 3 senior transfers, it basically has to be done, but if we're not loading up on quality multi year guys behind them it's going to be hard to care. Cam Carr is much more what we need to be adding. The hottest sophomore names in the portal are not the development gems we need IMO.

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No offense, but I feel like you post a lot and I can't remember the last time I read something you posted and found it to be worth the time spent.

Nunn was a portal miss? He wasn't an All-American or anything, but he was dang near a double digit scorer for two years and shot over 40% from 3 both years. That's exactly what you hope for.

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Does anyone know if Wright recommits if there will be an announcement...or is it just a situation where no news is good news?

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I just noticed Yanis listed in the portal. Was there an announcement on him that I missed? Best of luck Yanis, hope you end up playing somewhere!

Mitch Henessey said:

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IvanBear said:

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IowaBear said:

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It's recruiting strategy. It's horrible roster construction something Drew has loosely admitted was part of this seasons failures. So the solution is to continue that strategy. Setting the stage for a complete rebuild again next off season? We're all entitled to our own opinions. Definitely respect you. But this strategy doesn't win. That's been proven over and over. High roster turnover every year is a choice. That's how Drew is choosing to construct his rosters at this point.

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It's not as simple as just finding multi-year guys that fit. Almost every multi-year guy we've added the past few years has left one way or another. Sochan, Missi, Little, Asemota, Grimes, just bad luck. Was recruiting all of these guys 100% better than recruiting seniors in their place? It's just hard to get guys to commit to multi-year roles in the current environment. Drew clearly desires less turnover, but it's not as simple as just finding guys willing to commit because he has done that.

That isn't to say that I prefer seniors because I would definitely rather have multi-year guys like you. I desperately miss developing guys like we did with most of that championship team. We've had some bad luck and external circumstances affect us the past few years. I have a hard time blaming it all on roster construction.

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Plenty of people are successfully doing it, Drew's just not doing a good job picking players. But the problem is he's missing talent wise or fit/coaching wise on too many guys. To be clear the problem is not Sochan and Missi like guys who are talented enough to go pro far earlier than expected.

The problem is Nunn, Grimes, Asemota, Dainja, Little, Cryer (ugh) and the list goes on, were either not very good at the end of the day or didn't get along with the culture in Drew's program. I'm fine with the idea we need to bring in some Senior transfers or one and done players that's the icing on the top of your roster, but the fact Drew is not getting any development out of almost literally everyone else on the roster is the problem.

I'll reserve my judgment but right now, I'm okay if we bring in 3 senior transfers, it basically has to be done, but if we're not loading up on quality multi year guys behind them it's going to be hard to care. Cam Carr is much more what we need to be adding. The hottest sophomore names in the portal are not the development gems we need IMO.

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No offense, but I feel like you post a lot and I can't remember the last time I read something you posted and found it to be worth the time spent.

Nunn was a portal miss? He wasn't an All-American or anything, but he was dang near a double digit scorer for two years and shot over 40% from 3 both years. That's exactly what you hope for.

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One of the byproducts on the NC year is a hypercritical mindset. Jalen Bridges struggled in his first year with us and was considered a waste. Lohner was always a role player, but received a lot of negativity though he contributed surprisingly well in important games for us. VJ struggled early this year, and folks wanted to yank the ball out of his hands. Nunn is a small guard who had trouble scoring against bigger guards. He gave us a great effort and I respect him for it.

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boognish_bear said:

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Does anyone know if Wright recommits if there will be an announcement...or is it just a situation where no news is good news?

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I just noticed Yanis listed in the portal. Was there an announcement on him that I missed? Best of luck Yanis, hope you end up playing somewhere!

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Are we sure Yanis ever really existed? If so, he brought "keeping a low profile" to new level.

https://www.on3.com/college/baylor-bears/news/baylor-forward-yanis-ndjonga-enters-ncaa-transfer-portal/

Big12Fan2024 said:

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TWD 1974 said:

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boognish_bear said:

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Does anyone know if Wright recommits if there will be an announcement...or is it just a situation where no news is good news?

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I just noticed Yanis listed in the portal. Was there an announcement on him that I missed? Best of luck Yanis, hope you end up playing somewhere!

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Are we sure Yanis ever really existed? If so, he brought "keeping a low profile" to new level.

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Folks around the country are scouring the internet on the Baylor transfer, "Why are we not getting any stats on this guy?" Hope he gets $$ from someone and doesn't put 15 and 12 on us in the tournament.

That would be our luck!

In all seriousness, hope his knee allows him to play somewhere. It's gotta be frustrating to have to sit out that long.

Add Agbim to next year's roster. It's definitely going to be a different feel than this past year's squad. I feel like we've kept most of our NIL powder dry to this point. I wonder if we get a late surprise, a la Norchad last season. If we can fill out our depth and then get a huge impact guy like that late, we could really have something on par with what this fanbase expects.

I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

Big12Fan2024 said:

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I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

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I feel like Drew and staff are biding their time waiting for rev sharing to go into place and the environment to stabilize. We absolutely want to win in the meantime, but you almost get the sense that this is an "every man for himself" kind of era and we're just trying to white knuckle through it.

My BU frat brother's dad is the head of a very high profile SEC school's collective and he said it has gotten outrageous. He told me a year ago to not believe all the wild numbers that were being thrown around in the media in basketball because it wasn't as much as what many were saying. This year he said it is beyond crazy and the numbers of agents requesting (not necessarily getting) $2 mi to $4 mil were very true.

It's obviously not a sustainable product for many schools with all that going on. I suspect Coach Drew is not the only one who will adopt that strategy this year.

Mitch Henessey said:

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IvanBear said:

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joenatty said:

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IowaBear said:

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It's recruiting strategy. It's horrible roster construction something Drew has loosely admitted was part of this seasons failures. So the solution is to continue that strategy. Setting the stage for a complete rebuild again next off season? We're all entitled to our own opinions. Definitely respect you. But this strategy doesn't win. That's been proven over and over. High roster turnover every year is a choice. That's how Drew is choosing to construct his rosters at this point.

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It's not as simple as just finding multi-year guys that fit. Almost every multi-year guy we've added the past few years has left one way or another. Sochan, Missi, Little, Asemota, Grimes, just bad luck. Was recruiting all of these guys 100% better than recruiting seniors in their place? It's just hard to get guys to commit to multi-year roles in the current environment. Drew clearly desires less turnover, but it's not as simple as just finding guys willing to commit because he has done that.

That isn't to say that I prefer seniors because I would definitely rather have multi-year guys like you. I desperately miss developing guys like we did with most of that championship team. We've had some bad luck and external circumstances affect us the past few years. I have a hard time blaming it all on roster construction.

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Plenty of people are successfully doing it, Drew's just not doing a good job picking players. But the problem is he's missing talent wise or fit/coaching wise on too many guys. To be clear the problem is not Sochan and Missi like guys who are talented enough to go pro far earlier than expected.

The problem is Nunn, Grimes, Asemota, Dainja, Little, Cryer (ugh) and the list goes on, were either not very good at the end of the day or didn't get along with the culture in Drew's program. I'm fine with the idea we need to bring in some Senior transfers or one and done players that's the icing on the top of your roster, but the fact Drew is not getting any development out of almost literally everyone else on the roster is the problem.

I'll reserve my judgment but right now, I'm okay if we bring in 3 senior transfers, it basically has to be done, but if we're not loading up on quality multi year guys behind them it's going to be hard to care. Cam Carr is much more what we need to be adding. The hottest sophomore names in the portal are not the development gems we need IMO.

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No offense, but I feel like you post a lot and I can't remember the last time I read something you posted and found it to be worth the time spent.

Nunn was a portal miss? He wasn't an All-American or anything, but he was dang near a double digit scorer for two years and shot over 40% from 3 both years. That's exactly what you hope for.

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Yes, and my mind is blow we're going to re-litigate what a disappointment Nunn was to this team and program. He was a better player in his first season at Baylor than his second. So many people last off season talked about all the improvement he could have made - instead he regressed badly and lost a starting role on a team that failed to keep its starting guards healthy.

He was a mediocre at best and most accurately a below average guard we relied on like he'd be starting quality guard in the big 12. Nunn was supposed to be a great defender but he really wasn't, he had a great 3% average unless you look at conference play when it mattered. He hardly sniffed time unless we had injury issues as the year wore on and even then we were running guys way more minutes than you'd like to because hew as not capable of handling the ball or making shots. He is unquestionably a recruiting miss and not a guy anyone else in the conference wishes they had.

joenatty said:

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Tarris Reed stuff that I mentioned a few days ago feels very hit or miss now, could stay at UConn or could be convinced. Seems like no one really knows. That being said, the price tag is up around 2mil now so I'd prefer if Baylor backed off and stayed focused on other guys. I'm sure many here would agree if that's how much he'd cost lol.

JJ White, Obi Agbim, and Michael Rataj are the guys that are being connected to Baylor right now.

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Mitch Henessey said:

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Big12Fan2024 said:

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I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

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I feel like Drew and staff are biding their time waiting for rev sharing to go into place and the environment to stabilize. We absolutely want to win in the meantime, but you almost get the sense that this is an "every man for himself" kind of era and we're just trying to white knuckle through it.

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Precisely how I view it, couldn't figure out how to say it earlier.

joenatty said:

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Mitch Henessey said:

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Big12Fan2024 said:

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I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

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I feel like Drew and staff are biding their time waiting for rev sharing to go into place and the environment to stabilize. We absolutely want to win in the meantime, but you almost get the sense that this is an "every man for himself" kind of era and we're just trying to white knuckle through it.

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Precisely how I view it, couldn't figure out how to say it earlier.

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If you believe what Ashley Hodge has said multiple times last year during the Kentucky drama Drew's got ~5 years left. He may only get a bite of that era.

People who want exclusively multi-year guys…yeah, that's the goal, but just because you get someone with three years of eligibility doesn't mean you get three years. Until they tweak the system, every year is going to be a hold your breath until the lineup is set.

And that's true for nearly everybody.

Buttpanda said:

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TWD 1974 said:

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Bearsalwayswin said:

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more then that i hope

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We're going to need more than one stretch 4 and 2 guards. Where still trying to put 5 on the court right?

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I trust Drew but have absolutely no clue what his plan is right now.

No team can return one single player from the previous year and expect to win anything. We're not going to bring in 11 transfers and we only have ONE freaking recruit coming in. So that's two players, and Rataj makes it 3. That means we need 5 more guys just to have a normal rotation without any injuries. If we start even a single walkon then we are done. Drew is a good coach but not even Coach K can win with RW3, a freshman 5-star, Rataj, and 5 walkons.

Next year is absolutely cooked unless something changes asap. Anybody have any idea what is happening? With the culture Drew built and our national title in 2021 I never could have guessed we'd be going through what we're going through right now.

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That's not really true anymore. Kentucky lost all of its players from a year ago and made the sweet 16 this year. Vanderbilt, an SEC doormat in recent years, also lost all of its players from a year ago and somehow cobbled together an NCAA a team worthy of an NCAA invitation in an extremely tough conference this year. I have confidence that Drew will find several more guys in the portal capable of starting on a big 12 team.

i've seen that we have 6 who entered (langston, asemota, agebola, yanis something, and someone else who redshirted).

IvanBear said:

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Mitch Henessey said:

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Big12Fan2024 said:

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I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

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I feel like Drew and staff are biding their time waiting for rev sharing to go into place and the environment to stabilize. We absolutely want to win in the meantime, but you almost get the sense that this is an "every man for himself" kind of era and we're just trying to white knuckle through it.

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Precisely how I view it, couldn't figure out how to say it earlier.

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If you believe what Ashley Hodge has said multiple times last year during the Kentucky drama Drew's got ~5 years left. He may only get a bite of that era.

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really? he's not even that old relatively speaking. But no one saw the Jay Wright retirement coming and it happened nonetheless so it's definitely plausible. I guess I just thought he'd be our K/Boeheim and be here until his 70's.

If he thinks he's retiring soon then I wonder if there is a succession plan in place or being worked on. Gotta assume McCasland would be the first call, but who knows what the landscape will look like in 4 years and if he'll even still be desirable at that point.

Buttpanda said:

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IvanBear said:

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joenatty said:

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Mitch Henessey said:

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Big12Fan2024 said:

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I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

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I feel like Drew and staff are biding their time waiting for rev sharing to go into place and the environment to stabilize. We absolutely want to win in the meantime, but you almost get the sense that this is an "every man for himself" kind of era and we're just trying to white knuckle through it.

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Precisely how I view it, couldn't figure out how to say it earlier.

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If you believe what Ashley Hodge has said multiple times last year during the Kentucky drama Drew's got ~5 years left. He may only get a bite of that era.

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really? he's not even that old relatively speaking. But no one saw the Jay Wright retirement coming and it happened nonetheless so it's definitely plausible. I guess I just thought he'd be our K/Boeheim and be here until his 70's.

If he thinks he's retiring soon then I wonder if there is a succession plan in place or being worked on. Gotta assume McCasland would be the first call, but who knows what the landscape will look like in 4 years and if he'll even still be desirable at that point.

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better chance he's in the nba in 5 years than undesirable.

That'll put drew just north of 60 and probably around 25-30 years on the job at Baylor. Not a bad time to retire. I have zero inside knowledge nor a premium subscription just regurgitating what I've seen about it last year.

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i've seen that we have 6 who entered (langston, asemota, agebola, yanis something, and someone else who redshirted).

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Langston Love - solid contributor; would have definitely been a starter; injury prone
Jason Asemota - 4 star recruit; didn't do much this year; would likely have played more next year
Omar Adegbola - a walkon who (I believe) was granted a scholarship this year; was never gonna see the court
Kaleb Jackson - a preferred walkon who was never gonna see the court
Yanis Ndjonga - signed 2 years ago; never played a game; makes you wonder if he was a complete whiff


Now, let's look at KU:

Flory Bidunga - 5 star recruit; key reserve this year who was set to start and be a major contributor
David Coit - role player; 6th man who started some games this year; was set to start next year
Rylan Griffen - starter this year who never lived up to his promise showed at Bama previously
Rakease Passmore - Top 50, 4 star recruit who didn't play much (similar to Asemota)
Zach Clemence - Top 75, 4 star recruit; played back up minutes 2 years ago; injury prone


Langston was a tough loss because, when healthy, he was a solid contributor on offense even after slowed by injuries. But it is understandable from both sides' view that it is probably good for him to get a fresh start elsewhere and make as much money as he can because injuries have taken away his prior NBA potential. Asemota is someone who may/may not have taken a step forward next year. The other 3 are basically guys who were probably valued practice players but realistically were never gonna see the court at this level of ball.

KU and Arizona have both been hit much harder in the portal thus far losing key contributors, although we still don't know how much of the transfer portal declarations are for actually transferring and how much is to improve negotiating position to stay at current school.

First time I've heard players have the option to do this… Don't call me I'll call you

Arizona big man Henri Veesaar has a do not contact tag on his portal entry, @On3sports has learned.

Veesaar averaged 9.4 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.https://t.co/uOWMfDRMry pic.twitter.com/zwuZUy45bp

— Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos_) March 31, 2025

joenatty said:

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Big12Fan2024 said:

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I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

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I feel like Drew and staff are biding their time waiting for rev sharing to go into place and the environment to stabilize. We absolutely want to win in the meantime, but you almost get the sense that this is an "every man for himself" kind of era and we're just trying to white knuckle through it.

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Precisely how I view it, couldn't figure out how to say it earlier.

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If you believe what Ashley Hodge has said multiple times last year during the Kentucky drama Drew's got ~5 years left. He may only get a bite of that era.

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really? he's not even that old relatively speaking. But no one saw the Jay Wright retirement coming and it happened nonetheless so it's definitely plausible. I guess I just thought he'd be our K/Boeheim and be here until his 70's.

If he thinks he's retiring soon then I wonder if there is a succession plan in place or being worked on. Gotta assume McCasland would be the first call, but who knows what the landscape will look like in 4 years and if he'll even still be desirable at that point.

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better chance he's in the nba in 5 years than undesirable.

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I can't recall the last college coach to get offered an NBA job, it doesn't seem to happen much these days, if at all. But maybe that's just your way of saying you think he's really good and won't decline. We'll see. He's very promising but anything can happen.

With current state of college basketball I can see how pro jobs would be more enticing. Having to build your roster every year has to be exhausting.

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Big12Fan2024 said:

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I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

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I feel like Drew and staff are biding their time waiting for rev sharing to go into place and the environment to stabilize. We absolutely want to win in the meantime, but you almost get the sense that this is an "every man for himself" kind of era and we're just trying to white knuckle through it.

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Precisely how I view it, couldn't figure out how to say it earlier.

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If you believe what Ashley Hodge has said multiple times last year during the Kentucky drama Drew's got ~5 years left. He may only get a bite of that era.

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really? he's not even that old relatively speaking. But no one saw the Jay Wright retirement coming and it happened nonetheless so it's definitely plausible. I guess I just thought he'd be our K/Boeheim and be here until his 70's.

If he thinks he's retiring soon then I wonder if there is a succession plan in place or being worked on. Gotta assume McCasland would be the first call, but who knows what the landscape will look like in 4 years and if he'll even still be desirable at that point.

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better chance he's in the nba in 5 years than undesirable.

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I can't recall the last college coach to get offered an NBA job, it doesn't seem to happen much these days, if at all. But maybe that's just your way of saying you think he's really good and won't decline. We'll see. He's very promising but anything can happen.

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Dan Hurley last off season, Lakers offered him a mega mega contract. He turned it down.

It still happens a lot.

Two multi-year guys I hope we are taking a hard look at:

- Magoon Gwath, Fr., San Diego State - 7'0" C who was the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year. He was mentioned earlier in this thread. Averaged 8.5 ppg, 5.2 rpg, and 2.5 blocks. Blocked 5+ shots versus elite competition (Gonzaga, Oregon, and Houston). He would be an elite defensive presence in the middle and would allow us to work Josh Ojianwuna back into the lineup slowly.

- Kanon Catchings, Fr., BYU - 6'9" SF who we know a bit about, as he absolutely torched us in Provo. That game was by far the highlight of his freshman campaign, as he only played 13 total minutes in BYU's final 8 games, including the Big 12 and NCAA Tournaments. Shot 35% from 3 on decent volume, but isn't a good FT shooter and didn't contribute much outside of shooting this past year. If he develops into an all-around player, he could be a really good one.

D-1 men's basketball portal entries in March (this includes about 100 or so walk-ons):

2025: 1,680
2024: 1,110

The total number of entries in 2024 was 2,025:

The portal was also open for 45 days a year ago compared to 30 days this year. The portal officially opened on…

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) April 1, 2025

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I like this addition as well. With Agbim's wingspan, he'll player higher and longer than his actual height. A good power forward and a good shooting guard with some wingspan (to go along with Carr's wingspan) and I like what Drew is doing. I just think everyone is gonna have to get used to the new era of college basketball where not very many teams are gonna have continuing rosters. It's gonna be mostly new for everyone, every year.

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I feel like Drew and staff are biding their time waiting for rev sharing to go into place and the environment to stabilize. We absolutely want to win in the meantime, but you almost get the sense that this is an "every man for himself" kind of era and we're just trying to white knuckle through it.

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Precisely how I view it, couldn't figure out how to say it earlier.

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If you believe what Ashley Hodge has said multiple times last year during the Kentucky drama Drew's got ~5 years left. He may only get a bite of that era.

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really? he's not even that old relatively speaking. But no one saw the Jay Wright retirement coming and it happened nonetheless so it's definitely plausible. I guess I just thought he'd be our K/Boeheim and be here until his 70's.

If he thinks he's retiring soon then I wonder if there is a succession plan in place or being worked on. Gotta assume McCasland would be the first call, but who knows what the landscape will look like in 4 years and if he'll even still be desirable at that point.

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better chance he's in the nba in 5 years than undesirable.

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I can't recall the last college coach to get offered an NBA job, it doesn't seem to happen much these days, if at all. But maybe that's just your way of saying you think he's really good and won't decline. We'll see. He's very promising but anything can happen.

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Dan Hurley last off season, Lakers offered him a mega mega contract. He turned it down.

It still happens a lot.

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Brad Stephen's with the Celtics - though he's moved on to the front office

Right now the numbers being tossed around by agents for most of the top transfers is in the $2.5 to $3 million range, multiple sources told @TheFieldOf68.

Timing is everything, and right now agents/players trying to get paid prior to the House Settlement and revenue sharing…

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 31, 2025