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[QUOTE="caw, post: 4896895, member: 563"]
It's not all the portal.  It's a confluence of things that are making top teams weaker especially now relatively speaking.

The fifth and sixth year COVID players (some are transfers, some are not) have taken minutes from talented but unreliable freshmen across the country.  This actually raises the level of play around the country and where you see more parity in the game with older players being able to out muscle/out smart/etc. young talented players.  NIL also plays a big role with more fourth, fifth and sixth year players staying with even low level NIL being more than they would likely make in the real world.

G-league Ignite and other pro-options for top 1 and done options has weakened the freshman talent pool where teams like Duke and UK are not getting all the top talent (last year alone that would have included Scoot, the Thompson twins, Miller, maybe Cissoko and this year would have included Buzelis, Holland and Smith).  They are still getting the top talent coming into the NCAA's but it pushes talent down a notch coming in across the board.

Then you have the portal and players transferring all over the place.
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