Within days of the NCAA national title game it was reported that there were just over 900 Division I women’s basketball players in the transfer portal. With a maximum of 15 players on 356 teams, that meant about 17 percent of the players in the sport were searching for new homes.
It has become such a regular feature of the sport that one SEC coach decided to sign no incoming freshmen last November. Instead, she said she would wait for the portal because she already had a very young team and was looking for some experience at the DI level.