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Arizona has benefited from the transfer portal, but what are the bigger implications?

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.