Which teams benefitted most from the transfer portal -- or didn't?

The summation of the transportation portal successful 2018 -- and later, the removal of rules requiring transfers to beryllium retired a twelvemonth earlier being eligible to play again -- were seismic shifts successful the assemblage hoops landscape. Suddenly, a squad could overhaul its roster, oregon suffer players, seemingly overnight.

While the portal is not the lone origin that determines a team's success, it is present 1 of the highest-profile parts of modern team-building, and arguably the astir businesslike mode for coaches to upgrade their rosters. To measurement which programs added, oregon lost, much prima powerfulness done the portal successful 2025 compared to the 4 erstwhile portal cycles, we developed a elemental scoring strategy to cipher an "average nett score" for each squad based connected incoming and outgoing players who made Jeff Borzello's apical 100 transfers successful 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Here's however that scoring strategy works:

Transfers ranked 1-10: 5 points
Transfers ranked 11-25: 4
Transfers ranked 26-45: 3
Transfers ranked 46-70: 2
Transfers ranked 71-100: 1

The squad with the astir transportation endowment added successful a azygous portal rhythm since Borzello began ranking the disposable players successful 2021 was Texas that precise aforesaid year, but incoming stars are lone fractional of the look -- we besides tracked the points mislaid to outgoing transfers, which wounded teams specified arsenic LSU and St. Bonaventure successful 2022, some of which mislaid 13 points of transportation prima powerfulness successful a azygous portal cycle.

Finally, we compared each program's mean of transportation endowment added vs. mislaid betwixt 2021 and 2024 to their 2025 transportation classes, ranking the 5 teams that did amended -- and the 5 teams that did worse -- heading into this upcoming play compared to the erstwhile four.

Note: We inactive included transfers who didn't marque the apical 100 chopped for 2025 but appeared successful Borzello's "next successful line" database of honorable mentions, which are marked arsenic "NR" for "not ranked" below.

MOST TRANSFER TALENT ADDED

1. Oklahoma Sooners (+12.5)

2021-24 mean nett score: -2.5

2025 ranked players added: +10
No. 26 Xzayvier Brown via Saint Joseph's (+3)
No. 42 Derrion Reid via Alabama (+3)
No. 48 Nijel Pack via Miami (+2)
No. 59 Tae Davis via Notre Dame (+2)

2025 ranked players lost: 0

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