Indiana basketball's incoming transfer portal class of Myles Rice, Kanaan Carlyle, Oumar Ballo, Luke Goode and Langdon Hatton is considered one of the best in the country.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Roughly 300 players are still looking for new schools in the transfer portal, but some level of clarity has been restored in college basketball with most of the top talent committed.
It was an especially busy offseason for Indiana coach Mike Woodson, who replaced six outgoing players with five transfers and a freshman. The Hoosiers lost starting center Kel'el Ware to the NBA, while Xavier Johnson and Anthony Walker exhausted their eligibility. Outgoing transfers include CJ Gunn , Kaleb Banks and Payton Sparks), and Woodson replaced them with, schools listed as "portal winners" include Kansas, Indiana, Michigan, Baylor, Louisville, Alabama, UConn, Iowa State, Houston, Purdue, Marquette, West Virginia, Saint Louis, St. John's and McNeese State.
"Woodson obviously prefers a big frontline, and the Hoosiers stay huge with Ballo , Malik Reneau and Mackenzie Mgbako . That should be one of the most talented frontcourt combos in the country. The key to it working is the added shooting and shot creation coming through. Woodson got a shooter in Goode and then shot creators in Rice and Carlyle, two young guards out of the Pac-12 with some upside.
"We’ll see how it all works, but Woodson has one of the deeper rosters in the country, and he’s at least addressed some deficiencies."Jack Ankony is a Sports Illustrated/FanNation writer for HoosiersNow.com. He graduated from Indiana University's Media School with a degree in journalism. Follow on Twitter @ankony_jack.
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