2025 Transfer Portal

[municup14]

This is what the power conferences wanted,control of the majority of the money that the NCAA gives out from the Tournament.

[Birdfan2018]

Portal Checklist (4/1 update)

First Team
Tytan Anderson, UNI - Senior
Duke Deen, Bradley - Grad
Jonathan Pierre, Belmont - Senior - In the Portal
Bennett Stirtz, Drake - In the Portal (Iowa)
Samage Teel, Indiana State - Senior - In the Portal
***Chase Walker, Illinois State - Returning, per X post

Second Team
Tayshawn Comer, Evansville - In the Portal
Kennard Davis Jr., S. Illinois - In the Portal
Darius Hannah, Bradley - 5th
Johnny Kinziger, Illinois State
Cooper Schwieger, Valparaiso - In the Portal

Third Team
***Trey Campbell, UNI - Returning, per local radio host (BCPanther)
Ali Dibba, Southern Illinois - In the Portal
Mitch Mascari, Drake - Grad
Zek Montgomery, Bradley - Senior
Carter Whitt, Belmont - Grad

All-Freshman Team
Jack Daugherty, Illinois State
***Jaquan Johnson, Bradley - Returning, per Wardle on the app formerly known as Twitter
Sam Orme, Belmont
Gabriel Pozzato, Evansville - In the Portal
All Wright, Valparaiso - In the Portal

Jack Daugherty-returning to Illinois State per his Instagram post.

[MissouriValleyUnite]

TV viewership for the NCAA Tournament is the highest since 1993. The Field of 68 Youtube channel is exploding.

The game is not dying. It is different, but not dying.

The Field of 68 YouTube channel has 55k subscribers, I'm not sure that's a great example for your point. But I do agree that the game isn't dying, but is different.

I won't outright dismiss the TV ratings PR pieces, but Nielsen is using a new method to calculate viewership. That likely accounts for the majority of any uptick - which is about 4% year-over-year. We'd need to see it versus the old method to get a true comparison - but since we won't, we have to take the information for what it is.

Turns out Sweet 16 ratings and Elite 8 ratings were down a fair margin.
https://fieldlevelmedia.com/ncaab/ncaa- ... v-viewers/

[Adunk33]

Ty Pence is returning to ILST.

One piece away from a full run back.

[MissouriValleyUnite]

My ISUr buddy just texted that he’s at the WBB game and they did a huge video montage to announce Kinziger’s back

[IllinoisState]

We're very lucky with all of our returning players. And we have some great signees.

[Birdfan2018]

Ty Pence is returning to ILST.

One piece away from a full run back.

https://x.com/maddoxpedon/status/190758 ... B6JdJne6TA
And that piece is back!!’

[tribecalledquest]

Championship or bust in BloNo.

[Adunk33]

Championship or bust in BloNo.

100% the feeling of Redbird fans.

Pedon going into year 4 of a 5 year deal. It's a make it or break it year.

[siudawgs]

Championship or bust in BloNo.

100% the feeling of Redbird fans.

Pedon going into year 4 of a 5 year deal. It's a make it or break it year.

Congrats to ISU for pulling off the modern-day holy grail of retaining all-conference players.

A lot of upside with this group and reason to be excited about potentially breaking the long NCAA drought. They should have little trouble scoring. If I were the ISU coaching staff, with whatever remaining rides they have, I'd be looking to add a salty defender or two to the mix, as their offense seemed ahead of their defense for much of this past season.