Winners and losers from college basketball's 2024 transfer portal cycle: Kansas, Indiana land stars

Eleven winners and eight losers from college basketball's six-week portal marathon

By David Cobb  & Cameron Salerno May 2, 2024 at 10:37 am ET• 11 min read

The spring deadline for players to enter college basketball's transfer portal and be eligible for the 2024-25 season arrived at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday night, marking the end of a chaotic six-week period in the sport. While there is still much work for coaches across the country to do in finalizing their rosters for the year ahead, they can breathe easy knowing the rush of players to the open market has subsided.

Instead of playing defense and trying to avoid portal losses, staffs can now focus their full attention on filling the unused scholarships they have remaining. Needs abound everywhere. Players face no firm deadline on when to commit to their new school, meaning some players will drag their recruitments out over the weeks ahead.

Until all the dust settles and the top players have made their final decisions, college basketball's roster picture will remain an uncompleted jigsaw puzzle. But with the portal entry deadline passed, the clouds have lifted enough to warrant a big-picture look at the national landscape. Some programs staved off harmful portal exits and have already made impact additions to their rosters. For some, the inverse is true and the future appears more bleak now than it did two months ago.

As college basketball's offseason moves into the next chapter -- one that will be highlighted by the stay-or-go decisions of NBA Draft prospects -- let's take a look at the winners and losers of the portal deadline.