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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Basketball Portal)

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Oregon State basketball transfer Glenn Taylor visiting Ohio State before St. John's, Texas A&M​

Oregon State transfer Glenn Taylor is visiting Ohio State this week ahead of planned stops at St. John's and Texas A&M, according to 247Sports national basketball analysts Travis Branham and Dushawn London. A former three-star recruit per 247Sports, Taylor averaged 11.6 points per game as a sophomore last season, his first as a starter for the Beavers.

Taylor is a lanky, 6-foot-6 forward from Arizona with scoring touch who can defend, the type of player that fits into any system. The Buckeyes getting his first visit could be good news for a coaching staff that has tapped the transfer portal hard for talent this cycle. Ohio State has already taken Minnesota's Jamison Battle and Baylor's Dale Bonner from the portal, two players who will add significant contributions to the 2023-24 team.

The Buckeyes are one of the portal's "biggest winners" thus far and look to be adding more talent to the roster. Chris Holtmann also did a great job keeping Bruce Thornton, Felix Okpara and Roddy Gayle Jr. out of the transfer portal. Those three sophomores can be lynchpins for Ohio State next season, but Bonner and Battle are big upgrades.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Transfers > HS recruits. Good article.

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How transfer portal, NIL reshaping college basketball recruiting has dropped value of high school prospects

'Freshmen are a bad investment. They're all rentals,' one Division I coach told CBS Sports
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Added another Big Ten coach: "However many freshmen you take, you need to prepare to have that many spots available open in the spring. Freshmen are a bad investment. They're all rentals."
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So where is the data on wins? Are transfers actually helping all of these teams win more games compared with prep recruits? Somehow I doubt it is quite as simple as "transfers score more, so they win more." Also, many times the transfers prop up a team a bit in the short-term, but are in place of freshmen who have greater potential in the long-term. Getting a few transfers to build depth is good, but the core of every single NCAA title team is highly talented prep recruits. No one wins it all on the backs of transfers. You want at least 4 out of 5 starters to be guys you recruited out of high school because of their high ceiling.
 
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