Off-season SOCON Transfer Tracker 2025

[tya1]

Samford is really taking a hit with guys entering the portal now. Four more of their top guys have jumped in after Bucky took the Texas A&M job. That is in addition to the three who had announced exits earlier and the seniors they will lose.

As of right this moment they have four guys - two current freshmen and two incoming freshmen. They need a new coach quickly to calm things down, and get talking to current players and potential recruits and replacement transfers.

[The Jackal]

Samford is really taking a hit with guys entering the portal now. Four more of their top guys have jumped in after Bucky took the Texas A&M job. That is in addition to the three who had announced exits earlier and the seniors they will lose.

As of right this moment they have four guys - two current freshmen and two incoming freshmen. They need a new coach quickly to calm things down, and get talking to current players and potential recruits and replacement transfers.

From a quick look, I believe roughly half of Samford's current roster came out of the transfer portal.

I'm assuming that if you live by the portal, you die by the portal. When you have a roster full of guys with no real connection to the school or to the coaching staff, there's really not much of a reason for them to stay.

I think we will look back over the years and realize that for our level, Furman's approach in both football and basketball to primarily recruit and develop high school players and supplement with the portal where needed will be the right answer.

[Roundball]

With Bailey now in the portal they have no returning starters.

Clemson has contacted Bailey. https://www.instagram.com/p/DH3eu2AMzwT ... JsenVkcHRy

[tya1]

ETSU's Quimari Peterson to U. of Washington.
Karon Boyd to Wichita State.
UNCG"s Jalen Breath to Ohio U.
Wofford's Jeremy Lorenz to DePaul.
Samford's Isaiah West to Belmont.

[Paladin91]

Assuming he wasn't on scholly.
Furman F Clyde Mauldin has entered the transfer portal.

[KingPaladin]

Assuming he wasn't on scholly.
Furman F Clyde Mauldin has entered the transfer portal.

Correct. Might feel like he can earn a scholarship elsewhere

[tya1]

Samford's 6'9" freshman Caleb Harrison appears to like their new coach. He has left the portal to return to Samford.

[tya1]

Honor Huff will transfer to West Virginia

[tya1]

UNCG's Kenyon Giles, a SoCon 1st team pick will transfer to Wichita State.

.... and the Spartans' Donovan Atwell is going to Texas Tech.

[tya1]

ETSU gets two transfer commitments.

5'11" Jaylen Smith averaged 11.4 ppg, 5.7 assists, and 1.3 steals for North Florida this season. He hit 34.6% of his threes. His assists per game was #1 in the ASUN conference. He has two years of eligibility.

Blake Barkley is a 6'7" 220 freshman transfer from Northwestern. He had very little playing time at Northwestern this season but was a fairly highly recruited high schooler with almost two dozen offers including offers from A-10 and Mid-American conference schools. Northwestern was his only offer from a P4 school. He is from Morgantown, WV.

[tya1]

Wofford's Justin Bailey is now Georgia's Justin Bailey.

[tya1]

Samford' s 6'9" forward Jaden Brownell has transferred to Southern Cal..

[tya1]

Interesting pickup for Wofford. Nils Machowski, 6'3" soph. PG is transferring in from UCF. He started 9 games for UCF this year and played in 31. Averaged about 4 ppg and 2 rpg while shooting 36.7% from three and hitting 81.5% from the FT line. Had a career high 15 vs. Oregon State in a UCF victory. Started the final seven games of the season and improved his numbers across the board in those games. Averaged almost 10 ppg and 42% of his threes over their last four games. Makes you wonder why he transferred. Looks like he was coming into his own in advance of next season.

Maybe he felt like he should have been playing more before that. My guess is he will definitely be starting for the Terriers from the beginning of the year.

Was the starting PG for the German U18 national team in 2022. His father played pro ball in Europe for 17 years.

[tya1]

UNCG was one of the hardest hit schools by transfers but has picked up their first replacement.

Valentino Pinedo is a 6'7" 225 forward transferring in from St. Francis (PA.) He was the 2nd leading scorer (hit 56.9% of his FGs) and leading rebounder for St. Francis' NCAA tournament participant this year. Of course, St. Francis is dropping down from D1 and most of the top players are leaving. Pinedo is a native of Spain . He began his college career at East Carolina before transferring to St. Francis.

[tya1]

Trey Fort transferring from Samford to Michigan State. It will be his fourth college. He began at Tenn-Martin, then went to Mississippi State, then Samford. He seems to have been injured at some previous stops. He has only played three seasons and his first year only consisted of 11 games. Mich. State must have been impressed with his 14.6 ppg at Samford this season. He only averaged 5 ppg in 23-24 at Miss. State and 2.3 ppg at UT-M.

Josh Holloway, 6'2" pg from Samford is following Bucky to Texas A&M.

Lucas Walls, 6'4" guard from Samford, is headed to Radford.

Achor Achor, 6'9" forward, who was a young star on the rise at Samford before transferring to Kansas State before this season, is headed to Mississippi State. He was kicked off the team at Kansas State early on during the season.

Augustinas Kiudulas, 6'8" forward for VMI, is transferring to Colorado State.

Isaiah Walker, 6'5" wing from Belmont, is transferring to Xavier. Furman offered a scholarship to Walker when he was in HS.

Denzel Aberdeen, another guy we tried to recruit in HS, 6'4" guard for NCAA champions Florida, will transfer. He was a regular member of the playing rotation for Florida and was expected to be a contender for a starting role next season so this seems an odd time to transfer. Maybe this is part of the reason for a transfer -

Princeton star guard Xavian Lee, who was one of the top rated guards in the portal chose Florida. He averaged 16.9 ppg, 6.1 rebs. and 5.5 assists this year.