Transfers/Seniors with Remaining Eligibility

[Gregory Sager]

Lance Nelson is graduating from North Park in May. NPU is moving to the all-online format for a lot of its graduate programs, which means that the opportunity to finish one's athletic career as a graduate student will be significantly reduced going forward at NPU. Thus, Lance will be moving on to seek out a place to play his final season of eligibility as a grad student.

[WUPHF]

@JamieShaw5 NEWS: Brandeis (D-III) wing Toby Harris has committed to Iona, source tells @On3sports. The 6-8 grad transfer averaged 18.8 points and shot 40.4% 3P on on 6.7 per game attempts this season.

[nescac1]

Hampton Sanders is entering the transfer portal with two years of eligibility.  With rumors that Klatsky is likely headed to D1 (rumored now as an assistant at Florida) plus NYU now set to lose its top seven guys without a large pool of 5th years guys to pull from as a potential replacements, NYU may have one of the most dramatic drop-offs we've seen for a team that made a national title game ...

[Greek Tragedy]

Hampton Sanders is entering the transfer portal with two years of eligibility.  With rumors that Klatsky is likely headed to D1 (rumored now as an assistant at Florida) plus NYU now set to lose its top seven guys without a large pool of 5th years guys to pull from as a potential replacements, NYU may have one of the most dramatic drop-offs we've seen for a team that made a national title game ...

I'm too lazy to look, but I'd like to know if there was ever a team to win the Naty, get the #1 preseason ranking the following year and then miss the tournament. Point had a big drop-off after they won the 2015 Naty. They finished 14-12.

[D3BBALL]

Hampton Sanders is entering the transfer portal with two years of eligibility.  With rumors that Klatsky is likely headed to D1 (rumored now as an assistant at Florida) plus NYU now set to lose its top seven guys without a large pool of 5th years guys to pull from as a potential replacements, NYU may have one of the most dramatic drop-offs we've seen for a team that made a national title game ...

I'm too lazy to look, but I'd like to know if there was ever a team to win the Naty, get the #1 preseason ranking the following year and then miss the tournament. Point had a big drop-off after they won the 2015 Naty. They finished 14-12.

This year I believe Trine was preseason number 1 and didn't make tournament

[D3BBALL]

Hampton Sanders is entering the transfer portal with two years of eligibility.  With rumors that Klatsky is likely headed to D1 (rumored now as an assistant at Florida) plus NYU now set to lose its top seven guys without a large pool of 5th years guys to pull from as a potential replacements, NYU may have one of the most dramatic drop-offs we've seen for a team that made a national title game ...

Agree and Sanders at the final 4 was by far the NYU best player and was going to be mvp until trinity came back and won.

[WUPHF]

Between the significant number of sophomores and juniors entering the portal and the new roster limits for schools that opt-in to the settlement, NYU and Case Western Reserve could pick up a bunch of undergraduate transfers. 

For NYU, if Hampton Sanders does transfer, the Violets will be one of the crazier rebuild stories with really only Bryan Moussako (13-15 mpg, 4 ppg) and Quinn Clark (injured this season) returning from the rotation.

CWRU may be even crazier with freshman Matthew Ellis (17 mpg, 6.5 ppg) leading the way from the rotation.  No other returning player averaged more than 11 minutes per game.

[Greek Tragedy]

Hampton Sanders is entering the transfer portal with two years of eligibility.  With rumors that Klatsky is likely headed to D1 (rumored now as an assistant at Florida) plus NYU now set to lose its top seven guys without a large pool of 5th years guys to pull from as a potential replacements, NYU may have one of the most dramatic drop-offs we've seen for a team that made a national title game ...

I'm too lazy to look, but I'd like to know if there was ever a team to win the Naty, get the #1 preseason ranking the following year and then miss the tournament. Point had a big drop-off after they won the 2015 Naty. They finished 14-12.

This year I believe Trine was preseason number 1 and didn't make tournament

Sorry, I meant prior to this season.

[nescac1]

Another big name in the transfer portal, CMS's A.J. Rohosy, who certainly has the profile of a guy who can (return to) D1 next year, except this time, on scholarship.

To illustrate just how different D3 is going to look next year, of the 36 scoring average leaders last year, 26 are out of eligibility, and at least six (Tye-Rell Monroe, Justin Allen, Charles Nelson, Ken Walker, EJ Matthews-Spratley, and AJ Rohosy) are in the portal.  All of those guys should be pretty safe bets for at least a D2 ride I'd expect. 

The D3 hoops all-American list tells a similar story: only three out of 25 seem likely to return, with Regan, Rohosy, and Harris three others with eligibility but all in the portal.  And of course, lots of high-profile teams many of whom went deep into the tournament suffer massively impactful personnel losses this year and in many cases look likely to be very different teams (NYU, Platteville, Wisconsin Lutheran, WPI, Wesleyan, IWU, Keene State, Wash U., WNEC, Catholic, etc.).  Just about the only thing that is a sure thing right now is that Trinity (CT) is flat loaded for the third year in a  row.  There are going to be a ton of new faces next year, though, for sure. 

[ADL70]

CWRU may be even crazier with freshman Matthew Ellis (17 mpg, 6.5 ppg) leading the way from the rotation.  No other returning player averaged more than 11 minutes per game.

Perhaps it would be more instructive to look at CWRU's per game stats for UAA play.

Andy Barba               9 gs 25.8 min 11.7 pts GR  (only played 2 seasons at Duquesne so potential 1 yr left)
Matthew Ellis             0    21.1           7.2     FY 
Anand Dharmarajan  7    17.4           7.2     JR
Andrew Fox               5    13.5           3.5     SR (only played 2 seasons at RIT so potential 1 yr left)

Aaron Rucker JR also started 6 games

[WUPHF]

My post was more cursory glance, than detailed analysis.

And looking later in to the season, particularly after the two graduate transfers went down with injury, is going to reveal more about the guys returning next season.

On paper, it looks like one of the crazier rebuilds for the coaching staff, but I'll stand corrected if the talent is there or incoming.

Barba would not be the first Spartan to be celebrated on Senior Day only to return the next season.

And Rucker looks like a guy with potential, but even with the six starts, he played sparingly.

[nescac1]

Moving the updated list with some new additions forward.  Rough going for Ohio Northern with at least four guys in the portal!


Transferring from D3:

Toby Harris, Brandeis to Iona (D1)


In the transfer portal (top-tier transfers, the majority will end up in D1):

Justin Allen, CMU (one year)
Owen Varnado, Calvin (one year)
Nick Roper, IWU (one year)
Tye-Rell Monroe, St. Elizabeth's (one year, JUCO exception)
EJ Matthews-Spratley, Stockton (one year)
Charlie Randall, Amherst (two years)
Eli Beard, MHB (one year)
Tyrese Rho, Salem State (one year)
Brandon Kulakowski, Fredonia State (one year)
Kenneth Rogers, Westfield State (three years)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (one year)
Drew Moore, Trine (one year)
Antonio Redding Jr., Delaware Valley (one year)
Livingston Cross, Penn College (one year)
Hampton Sanders, NYU (two years)
AJ Rohosy, CMS (one year)
Christian Green, Trinity (TX) (two years)
Elias Rodl, Brandies (one year)


In the transfer portal (the rest)

Darrius Bolden, Stevens Point (one year, JUCO exception)
Payton Thomsen, Bethel (one year)
Charles Nelson, Fontbonne (one year)
Nas Johnson, Arcadia (one year)
Isaiah Amato, Whitman (I believe one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Khai Champion, Tufts (one year - maybe two?)
Sunny Parker, McMurray (three years)
Moustapha Diop, Randolph (two years)
Darren Rubin, Denison (one year)
Ethan Edwards, Brandeis (one year)
DeAndre Vortes, Illinois Tech (one year)
Joshua Iguade, Illinois Tech (two years)
Hamilton Campbell, HSC (one year)
Andre Treadwell, Lewis and Clark (one year)
Nate Jacobson, Cornell College (one year)
Colt Donley, Covenant (two years)
Tyler Bergmans, Vermont-Lyndon (three years)
Jacob Morgan, Goucher (two years)
Anthony Davis, Knox (two years)
Jakorri Arnold, Warren Wilson (three years)
Dakota Sellers, Mary Washington (three years)
Matthew Puodziukaitis, Saint Vincent (three years)
Carter Reese, Ohio Northern (two years)
Justin Chapman, Ohio Northern (two years)
Jadi Cunningham, Ohio Northern (two years)
Cayden Jacoby, Ohio Northern (two years)
Grant Paetzold, Eau Clair (two years)
Cade Hogan, ETBU (three years)
Elijah Thomas, Carthage (one year)
KJ Williams, Carthage (one year)
Lance Nelson, North Park (one year)
Will Little, Bryn Athyn (one year)
Joevonn Mccottry, Aurora (one year)
Trenton Connolly, Earlham (three years)
Felipe Carter, Hunter (two years)
Troy Santos, Hartford (three years)
Ken Walker, Earlham (two years)
Connor Smith, Earlham (two years)
Kaosi Chijioke, Hartford (two years)
Vondre Chase, Emmanuel (one year)
Cooper Haberern, Susquehanna (one year)


Playing a fifth year at current school:

Luke Chicone, John Carroll (injury redshirt)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU (injury)
Peter Lash, NWU (one year)


Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:

Malcolm Newman, Drew (injury)
Antuan Nesbit, Carthage (listed on roster but did not play this year, not sure why)
Zach Rosenthal, Roanoke (injury)


Transferring to D3:

Eli Ehrke - Sioux Falls (D2) to Gustavus Adolphus
Kenji Scales - Sioux Falls (D2) to UWEC
Will Boser - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to UWEC

[OUVan59]

Cooper Haberern from Susquehanna is in the portal.  He's a career .394 shooter from 3 (447 attempts). 6'4" wing. 11.2 ppg last season. Has one year of eligibility left after sitting out 2022-23 with an injury. Susquehanna's lack of graduate programs requiring him to look elsewhere to continue playing.

[nescac1]

Two more big D3 additions to the portal today: Elias Rodl from Brandeis and Christian Green from Trinity (TX). 

[Greek Tragedy]

https://x.com/HoopDirt/status/1909780782249398557?t=RRdHffzIM65pEELVrnteBA&s=19

Probably not a coincidence that Christian Green enters the portal when his coach is leaving to be a D1 assistant.