Commentary: All this chaos created by the transfer portal ensures that March Madness upsets will be even more difficult to predict.
The Kansas Jayhawks celebrate with the trophy after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels 72-69 during the 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament National Championship at Caesars Superdome on April 4, 2022, in New Orleans.entered the transfer portal in November, the majority of whom were on Division I teams. With such a turnover of players, coaches are forced to revamp their rosters annually, integrating existing players, incoming transfers and freshmen into their system.
So what impact will all these transfers have on March Madness? More Power Five conference team chaos. Given that most Power Five conference teams have been affected by the transfer portal, either with players transferring into or out of their programs, these teams’ conference records have been more compressed.
Outside of Purdue, the Big Ten finished the regular season with seven teams within one game of each other in the top tier of the conference standings. This level of parity set the conference up withIn the Southeastern Conference, four of the five top scorers for Texas A&M are transfers. This made their out-of-conference schedule performance less than stellar, with Quad 4 losses to Murray State and Wofford, putting an anchor on their tournament seeding.
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