Basketball Rutgers Basketball C Antwone Woolfolk to enter Transfer Portal
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Mag on deck, with Cliff, Ogbole and Oskar possibles to jump into the on deck circle after Mag
Will mis Wolf - great guy to have on the team. Tough team to develop on this year - no leadership and certainly nothing to work off of on offense. Good luck wherever you go Wolf!
Not sure why everyone keeps saying Oskar. He tried it and saw the grass isn’t greener on the other side, he’s either staying or going back to Sweden to play ball imo.
I agree about Mag. I just don’t see a universe where Pike feels comfortable penciling him in as committed and reliable to be available to start at the 3/4. Not after how this season went down. He’s just too injury prone and we have no idea whether he’ll ever be 100%.
If Mag announces a departure, the only other guy I see us pressuring for a quick decision would be Cliff so that we have time to recruit a 5 if we need to. Otherwise - the “talks” are likely done. We’re not going to entice more than 2 top tier transfer players to join our team next year (and realistically it’ll probably only be one proven stud and another kid who is more of a gamble)
If Mag goes we already have those 2 spots open. Bringing in a wing shooter would be top priority - we’ll have starter minutes to advertise at the 3. (Sure - Gavin may end up playing his way into that spot but he’s not going to be viewed by a transfer as a “threat”). We won’t really have starter minutes to advertise anywhere else. Which is why I say - transfer number 2 will likely not be a proven double digit player from a decent conference. We would be digging even deeper in looking to replace Ogbole and Oskar’s bench spots too.
I like Duquesne from this list. But I think their coach is retiring
From the 1000 guys in the portal. The mods have done a good job of identifying Joseph from Miami and Cohen from UMASS. I would be happy with that assuming Cohen can rebound. He apparently can score and will get the ball from Dylan a lot.
Ogbole seems to be a guy that he either comes back or looks for an opportunity to get paid to play someone in the world (he's also older so at this point, so does he really want a degree or does he want to get paid say $30K-$100K+ in US dollars to play somewhere professionally?) He would be a good guy to have in practice and as a backup 5 if he does come back.
For Oskar, it does seem to be a decision to come back to RU or to move on with his life, possibly playing somewhere in Europe.
Certainly Mag is gone as there's no way he's coming back now and Cliff is likely gone as well.
Yeah, hopefully he can bring in some good players in the 2024 class. Time will tell I guess...
Yeah, I expected a much larger contribution from Wolf this past season.
Instead, he seems to have regressed.
Looks like St. Bonaventure is the destination here. Think I will have to get over to Hawk Hill if there's a Bona-SJU game next season to see Derek and Wolf.
