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Reportedly there is a 65% increase in price in the basketball portal compared to one year ago (i.e., a player valued at $1M/yr in 2025 is now at $1.65M/yr). An additional insight is that bigs are being paid $1M/yr more than other positions, suggesting perhaps the most plausible way to build a...

Duquesne transfer 6'5" Jimmie Williams is visiting OSU on the 16th. Could be a good fit as a backup at SG/SF. I think OSU is trying to bring in a couple more guards to add depth to this team.

UIC

Look at that smile. Somebody got paid!!

If you want more details about many of the players connected with OSU through the portal, 11W has a pretty good page tracking it...

Portal. https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2026/04/13/after-one-year-at-ohio-state-mathieu-grujicic-entering-transfer-portal/89381747007/

According to this article, the total NIL package for the duo is "high seven figures" so Louisville is paying nearly $8M for two players. The article also says that high end college basketball programs are spending $20M+ on their rosters for next season...

FYI, the claim is Bidunga and Shelstad were some kind of package deal for Louisville. What's the package deal, 2 for $7M? I'm curious if there was some kind of discount to bundle them together. They probably had the same agent, and in the NIL era, agents have taken hold and gained a lot of...

Yeah, Louisville is paying out $$$$$$$ today. UM Is going to get Juke Harris, who is one of the top recruits, but even with that, this offseason could be a disappointment for Dusty May - last year they got Lendeborg to pull out of the draft, let's see if they do it again with Morez Johnson and...

There's definitely an element of desperation to the transfer portal. A lot of these coaches are losing half or more of their roster at the end of the season. Many of those players are lost (with varying levels of expectation by the coaches) to the portal. The fact that top high school...

Juke Harris played for Wake Forest this season, and lost to UM head-to-head. Now he's celebrating the title. Cuck.

NIL is based on wealthy donors contributing to the program. Duke has a ton of NBA guys, so does Kentucky, UNC, Kansas. OSU doesn't have that many former NBA guys to kick in to NIL. Some other programs might not have a rich history of pros, but they might have other rich donors instead who...

I don't think that I would go that far. They can get one star per season like Anthony Thompson or Bruce Thornton, and when those stars come they do get enhanced. Bruce Thornton developed really well over 4 years, he was getting better and better every season. But they will not have a team of...

The coach isn't the problem as much as the funding is the problem. Coaches like Calipari and May chose not to come to OSU because the roster funding was better elsewhere. OSU football is the priority for roster funding. OSU men's basketball absolutely is in a position where the coach has to...

It's definitely a tough game for OSU to have to play. The game outside of the game. They can't pay up to get the top players in the portal, but they have to find guys who can be part of a team that can compete with them, which is where scouting and projection comes into play. For example, Cal...

Agreed Pippen is a good get, but Jelavic seems just OK. Certainly they will add more players, it's not over by a longshot, but ideally we'll have more quality depth than last season.

Based on how the roster is shaping up, defense and rebounding are red flag areas. They lost their two toughest and strongest players in Thornton and Royal. Who on this team is going to bring the physicality that it takes to win tough college basketball games?