How the NCAA s new transfer rules are changing recruiting and creating chaos in college basketball
David Borges
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There is havoc in men’s college basketball, a diaspora of players leaving programs that shows no sign of ending soon.
Roughly one out of every three players who donned a uniform this past season has entered the NCAA’s transfer portal. That’s over 1,600 players, enough to field about 120 teams, and some believe that number could still swell to double the total from a year ago when the portal had over 1,000 entrants for the first time.
The reasons are clear: the NCAA’s decision in October to grant an extra year of eligibility to all current student-athletes, coupled with a more recent ruling that allows players to transfer one time without penalty. While the rule changes were meant to benefit student-athletes, they have created chaos.
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UConn assistant Luke Murray has always been about recruiting: I m blessed to do it as a profession
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UConn assistant coach Luke Murray, shown here with Louisville, says he has always had a passion for recruiting.Timothy D. Easley / Associated Press
Luke Murray remembers his first stint at UConn, as a student with vast high school basketball recruiting knowledge, poking about the basketball offices with his buddy, Mark Daigneault, and kicking names around with assistant coaches Tom Moore and Andre LaFleur.
Daigneault went on to become the team manager; he’s now the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Murray transferred to Fairfield after a semester, but that love of scouting players has served him well over the years, and ultimately has him back at UConn, this time in an official capacity as one of Dan Hurley’s assistant coaches.