Villanova’s reconstruction, Temple’s problems and other big 5 updates

If you read this, the number of basketball players of Division I will grow in the transfer portal. The total amount is more than 1,500 and has been counting since the doors were opened last Monday. Part of the following discussion could prove to be quite meaningless.

It is silly season in College basketball. Practically everyone has an agent, and half of these agents take part with the College basketball messages to maximize the value of their customers.

Oh, have you not registered for a Magnum opus about the state of college athletics and the professional character? Fine. You are here for the remedy that can only provide transactions.

Let’s go straight to it. The transfer portal already gives the BIG 5.

How big will Villanova’s reconstruction be?

Villanova’s new coach, Kevin Willard, met for the first time on Wednesday with reporters, but since the current wildcats were still playing at College Basketball -Crown event in Las Vegas, Willard had a convenient apology not to discuss the future.

We know that all five Villanova starters are out of the question. What we do not know is how many players will reach the transfer portal with remaining authorization. The injured striker Nnanna Njoku, who has already been excluded for this reason, is in the portal. Some others will probably also follow.

How many will determine the extent of the reconstruction, which Willard, his employees and general manager Baker Dunleavy will have to carry out next season to create a competitive Big East team. Regardless of this number, Villanova will need start talent.

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Maryland Transfer Ja’kobi Gillespie will report Villanova and also consider Tennessee, his home state. According to College Basketball Analytics Whiz Evan Miya, Gillespie, a point Guard, becomes the top transfer on the market. He scored almost 15 points per game and added almost five templates, while he shot 40.7% from the three -point range in about six attempts per game.

It is difficult to overdo how much easier the squad building becomes when you add a point guard of this caliber. Villanova was also associated with other players, such as with Harun ZRNO, who originally committed in Indiana, reopened his recruitment after Indiana’s change change. ZRNO also plans to visit Villanova.

We will learn more about the extent of Villanova’s reconstruction in the coming days.

One in, one for St. Joe’s

On Tuesday, St. Joseph’s commitment from Marquette Transfer Al Amadou, a 6-foot 9 striker of Philadelphia, who played at Chestnut Hill Academy in Springide. Amadou Redshird last season, after playing economically as a newcomer in 2023-24.

At the moment it is a one-to-one exchange for the Hawks, with Shawn Simmons II.

St. Joe’s loses the leading goal scorer Erik Reynolds, against exhausted justification, and Junior Wing Roseer Fleming could be a first choice in the upcoming NBA design. But Xzayvier Brown, Derek Simpson, Anthony Finkley and other returnees give the Hawks a lot of talent for 2025-26.

You also have more resources. St. Joe’s will take part in Las Vegas on the 2025 Players ERA tournament, where the participants receive at least 1 million US dollars in names, image and similarity compensation. The Hawks belong to 18 men’s teams, together with Alabama, Auburn, Houston, Kansas and Tennessee.

Money talks in the new world, and St. Joe’s should spend some of it for the conversion.

Darris Nichols looks

Darris Nichols loves the telescope emoji or a gif. The new trainer from La Salle is looking for talent. In particular, as he said in his introductory press conference last month, he is looking for toughness.

According to top players such as Deice Jones, Jahlil White and Demetrius Lilley, there are reportedly reported in the portal. Nichols has already transferred obligations from Radford, Josiah Harris and Truth Harris from his last school and the return of Big Man Mac Etienne, which will remain in La Salle, and the return of Big Man Mac Etienne.

The fact that La Salle had the need to return Etienne was both a program that tried to create energy and a sign of time. It has become new when someone says they stay as if they go.

Temple problems

Diane Richardson, women’s trainer from Temple, had an interesting post on Thursday on X, in which it was: “Many calls from agents in relation to players in the portal. In this regard, my agent is my advertisement. You can ask him about some of these numbers that you ask.”

A shot at sports director Arthur Johnson? Another sign of the time? Both?

Richardson later clarified and wrote: “I say that because some agents ask the coaches for amounts that are roughly inflated. It is as if you are on the bench and ask for a million US dollar loan.”

Temple recently brought his zero in-house, and the outer collective, the tuff fund, will no longer exist. Does Temple have the resources to keep up? Will it collect enough money in the American Athletic Conference to find competitive basketball teams, especially with a football program for the feed? Some are skeptical.

The men’s team is now decimated by transfers. Dillon Battie, Quant Berry, Jameel Brown, Lynn Greer III and Zion Stanford are in the portal. Incoming newcomer Cam Miles drawn his commitment to the program at the beginning of this week. Elijah Gray is supposed to enter, but he was not in the portal from Thursday afternoon.

Adam Fisher has to replace almost his entire goal from this season. In the meantime, Richardson has also hit the portal.

Top -class women on the move

The women’s play is not immune to movement and several Big 5 players are already in the portal.

None of them are as top -class as the two players should lose Villanova and St. Joe’s.

Laura Ziegler, who led St. Joe 17.5 points and 10.4 rebounds per game, will play her senior season elsewhere. Villanova now loses Sophomore Maddie Webber, who was second in the team with 13.3 points per game.

Gone in the university cities

Drexel’s men’s team loses three of his four best scorers in the portal, and all three have announced their new destinations. Yame Butler changes to Butler. Cole Hargrove goes to the Providence. Kobe Magee will play in the state of Florida. This is life for Zach Spiker and many coaches at his level. Get players, develop them, send them to the higher level. Rinse and repeat.

Penn’s coaching change led to some players entering the portal, but only one of them, Sam Brown, stayed. It would be a big step for Fran McCaffery to keep Brown, who achieved 19.3 points per game compared to Ivy competition.

In the meantime, Drexel’s women’s team is the only big 5 team, men or women without players in the portal.

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