The transfer portal is all the rage in men’s college basketball these days, given that it’s a quicker way for both contending teams to fill needs and downtrodden programs to jumpstart rebuilds.
At this time roughly eight months ago, Kentucky and St. John's were seen as two of the consensus winners of the transfer portal, flying higher than other programs who had also been busy in the portal, like USC and Indiana. Three-plus months into the college basketball season and some of these preseason projections remain intact while others have changed greatly.
