Article by Steve Greenberg. I don’t usually find much useful information in that paper. I’m not sure this is useful as much as it is statement on the state of college basketball. Plus lots of Illini references and the paragraph on Jake Davis made me laugh.
Reading about all the roster upheaval in other programs and their need to bring in portal players brings me to two conclusions. Illinois needs portal additions not because we’re losing players to the portal as much as the fact that what’s left is poorly constructed. The portal benefits a coach like Underwoid who constructed that roster. How much he can ever accomplish putting together a new team every year is pretty questionable to me.
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Reading about all the roster upheaval in other programs and their need to bring in portal players brings me to two conclusions. Illinois needs portal additions not because we’re losing players to the portal as much as the fact that what’s left is poorly constructed. The portal benefits a coach like Underwoid who constructed that roster. How much he can ever accomplish putting together a new team every year is pretty questionable to me.
Call it 'Portal Combat' — the real madness of college basketball's postseason
The transfer portal opened on March 18, a day after Selection Sunday. That meant scrambling to build rosters for all those coaches whose teams weren’t headed for postseason tournaments — and all those coaches whose teams were.
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