Checking in on the OSU transfers from last season ...
Memphis was 4-7 following their December 20th loss at Mississippi State, and now stands at 7-7 after beating 3 mid- and low-majors. Of course, in the American Athletic Conference, the competition is not high-major, and Memphis has played the toughest part of their schedule already. Their best wins are Baylor & San Francisco, and they've lost to Ole Miss, UNLV, Purdue, Wake Forest, Louisville, Vandy and Mississippi State, so obviously they should not be a tournament team unless they win the AAC tournament. Aaron Bradshaw is exactly the type of player to put up better numbers against less strong and athletic competition, so his stats are obviously going to be inflated this season based on the caliber of opponent. That being said, so far he is coming off the bench half the games and averaging slightly more on the season than he did at OSU in terms of minutes, points, rebounds (only because of offensive rebounding - he actually is averaging fewer defensive rebounds), fouls and turnovers, but generally speaking he seems to be the same player he was last season.
Oregon is 8-6 now and has lost to Auburn, San Diego St, Creighton, USC, UCLA and Gonzaga. They have wins against Oregon St & Maryland. Sean Stewart also looks like basically the same player he was last season, although his minutes have increased slightly so far, he's committing about 1 foul less per game and 1 more point per game. Rebounding down slightly, and he's started almost half of the games so far. Oregon is also not on track to make the NCAA tournament at this point, although they've had each of their top-3 scorers miss 2 games this season.
South Carolina is 9-5 but they have no high-major wins and losses to Butler, Northwestern, VT, Clemson and Vandy. Meechie Johnson is leading the team with 13.6 ppg, up from 9.1 last season, and of course they have the bulk of the SEC schedule coming up. SC is more reliant on Meechie to lead them than OSU was, but they appear to be a worse team than OSU was last season & aren't on track to make the tournament. He is averaging about 1 minute, 1 shot, 1 rebound, 1 assist and 3 free throw attempts more per game. His FG% is up about 6% & FT% is up 25% so far compared with last season.
