As important as high school recruiting classes are to college basketball, they may have been overtaken in recent years by the NCAA transfer portal. The ability for teams to bring in players with more experience, rather than rely so much on unproven prep talent, has become a central part of most programs’ offseason approaches.
It certainly has for Arizona, which added three transfers from the portal this offseason and eight in Tommy Lloyd’s three years in Tucson.
And while ex-North Carolina guard Caleb Love was certainly the most high profile of that transfer trio, it’s Keshad Johnson who is getting some national attention as possibly the top portal addition in the country.