Please someone give me the bottom line ….. which Big East teams improved the most through post season transfers, and which teams were hurt the most by post season transfers.
Thanks.
St Johns is the answer to both questions. 8 guys transferred out, 5 guys in.
Cole, Williams, Dunn and Earlington were all decent role players and all transferred out. I especially liked Earlington, who was a key to their small ball lineups and killed us. Isiah Moore was talented but seemed to have issues, so not as big a deal. Roberts and McGriff were depth pieces.
But they replaced those guys with Aaron Wheeler, Montez Mathis, Stef Smith, & Joel Soriano. The former 2 are veteran, high major guys, if somewhat inefficient ones. If either can shoot well this year, they'll be high impact guys. Soriano and Smith are top tier mid major guys. Soriano needs to cleanup his FT shooting, but should be able to start day 1 at center. Smith adds some needed shooting considering the other additions and departures. Tareq Coburn is a nice veteran role player shooter. Plus Nyiwe, who Chris Beard took so presumably he has some potential longterm.