College Basketball Programs in RI Are Getting Hammered With Exodus to the Transfer Portal
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College Basketball Programs in RI Are Getting Hammered With Exodus to the Transfer Portal
Nine players at Rhode Island universities have already entered the portal.
Players generally leave for greener pastures — seeking a higher payment in NIL money.
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As GoLocal reported Friday, Garwey Dual has entered the NCAA transfer portal.
Dual is one of the highest-ranked Providence College recruits in the program's history — he was ranked No. 47 overall recruit in the 2023 recruiting class.
Now, he is all but gone.
Also intending to leave is freshman Donovan Santoro, who played limited minutes this year.
Brown University got bad news — not that the program needed any more bad news — as Nana Owusu-Anane, who was a two-year captain, announced his intent to leave after his junior year.
He averaged 15 points and 9 rebounds a game this past season. He was second-team all-Ivy.
For coach Mike Martin, the loss is a major hit to his program. The Bears lost the Ivy championship game on a last-second shot by Yale for an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
To add to the pain, Yale defeated #4-seeded Auburn on Friday.
Bryant Loses a Star
Daniel Rivera, Bryant’s second-leading scorer, has entered the transfer portal.
He averaged 13 points a game and will be a second-time transfer.
Rivera came to Bryant after a year at the University of St. Louis.
Already this week, five URI players have entered the portal.
URI has been a revolving door for the past three years.
In 2022, Archie Miller came to Rhode Island. A year later, he practically had a new team again -- and the 2023-24 squad had 11 new players. Not one of the starters was back.
Now, the exodus continues.
Talented big man Tyson Brown, a junior, announced his decision to enter the transfer portal, as did shooting forward Rory Stewart.
These two, added to the three GoLocal previously reported, pushed the number to more than a third of the team.
Earlier on Monday, GoLocal announced that Connor Dubsky, a freshman guard, had entered the portal.
URI describes Dusky as “a pure shooter from the perimeter as well as mid-range; he scored 90 points over a four-game span at the 2022 Southern Jam Fest."
Dubsky competed for ProspectU's AAU program. He chose the Rams over the likes of George Washington, George Mason, Kansas State, Maryland, Rice, and Wichita State.
In his first season at Rhode Island, he averaged 2.1 points a game.
GoLocal reported earlier on Monday that two other Rams had filed to leave Kingston.
Brandon Weston, a redshirt sophomore, is the second Ram to announce their intention to leave on the first day of the transfer portal.
Weston started much of the second part of the season.
He averaged 5.4 points per game.
6’11” Jeremy Foumena, the redshirt freshman from Montreal, also entered the transfer portal.
When Foumena came to URI, he was a celebrated recruit.