Saturday’s 76–52 victory for the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers over the Arkansas Razorbacks was the perfect illustration of an unlikely yet hardly debatable reality in men’s college basketball: Nobody’s winning in the transfer portal like the Vols.
A year after Dalton Knecht emerged from anonymity with the Northern Colorado Bears into a first-team All-American with the Vols, Tennessee may somehow have one-upped itself in the portal for 2024–25. On Saturday, Tennessee’s three transfer starters combined for 52 points—matching Arkansas’s entire total—in the latest example of the Vols’ transfer dominance. More than half of those points came from Chaz Lanier, the North Florida Ospreys transfer recruited to help fill the scoring void left by Knecht’s pro departure, who has lived up to the hype and more through two months.
