This is only off the past five years, but I'll take it.
I had forgotten Ballo was at Gonzaga. Only surprise to me was Arkansas (pre-Cal), with their rep, I thought they would be higher but I guess they take in too many transfers and not many pan out, they just tout the ones that do.
It's going to be a mess if you follow this for next year I bet. UK, Arkansas, UL, etc. all basically changed entire rosters.
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Love Hurley and love what he has built here. He has done a great job with getting transfers but his building of top 100 freshmen has also been fantastic.
2018: Brendan Adams (200+ ranking/grad/transfer)
2019: Bouknight (50s/NBA), Akok (20s/transfer), Gaffney (100+/transfer), Springs (150+/transfer)
2020: Jackson (50s/NBA), Sanogo (100+*/NBA), Brown (100+/Transfer)
2021: Hawkins (50s/NBA), Johnson (50s/TBD), Diggins (60s/transfer), Floyd (100*/DNP/Transfer)
2022: Karaban (100+*/NBA?), Clingan (50s/NBA), Hasson (NA/transfer), Roumoglou (NA/transfer)
2023: Castle (9/NBA), Ball (40s), Stewart (50s), Ross (100+), Singare (100+)
NBA:
Bouknight, Jackson, Sanogo, Hawkins, Karaban?, Clingan, Castle
Transfer: Adams (+grad),
Akok, Gaffney, Springs, Brown,
Diggins, Floyd, Hasson, Roumoglou
On team:
Johnson, Ball, Stewart, Ross, Singare
Johnson deserves a ton of praise for sticking it out four years. He is the only recruit who will have (by end of next year) played four years under Hurley at UConn on scholarship so far.
Hurley has only had twelve top 100 recruits play for him at UConn (pre reclass rankings for Sanogo and Karaban). Six (at least) will have logged NBA minutes by next year. Three will be on next year's roster. Two transferred out (Akok/Diggins). One is Karaban. That is pretty impressive retention amongst top players and conversion for those players to the NBA.
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Transfers under Hurley:
2018: Smith, Yakwe
2019: Cole (RS)
2020: Martin (URI/100+/NBA),
2021: NA
2022: Diarra (TAM/90s), Alleyne (VT/60s/transfer), Newton (ECU/NA/NBA?), Calceterra (USD/400+)
2023: Spencer (Rutgers/NA/NBA?)
Potentially getting three of eight transfers into the NBA is impressive, especially when none had great high school rankings and weren't near any NBA radar then. Diarra is still playing obviously so I am not counting him among the eight.
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