It’s not breaking news to state that college basketball is viewed differently now than it was when most of us became fans. It used to follow a familiar path: a player joins a team, and then unless he was a massive talent and could get drafted in the first round of the NBA draft, you would see him develop over four—or even five—years.
Now that’s all gone out the window. Thanks to the transfer portal, it’s increasingly rare to have a player that is a star on your team say throughout their full collegiate career. Carolina had one unicorn like that in Armando Bacot last season, and now one more has taken off his UNC jersey for the last time in RJ Davis.