The transfer portal attracts every type of player.
Mid-major talents who flee for power programs. Big-school guys who only play a handful of minutes and seek more playing time. Behavior issues who are chased off. Homesick players who choose a school closer to home.
Coaches must decipher which box a potential transfer fits into. Tod Kowalczyk has spoken repeatedly about getting transfers who are running to something, not away from something.
The Toledo coach believes Andre Lorrentsson is galloping to the Rockets.
“We trust the Saint Louis [coaches]. They didn’t want him to leave,” Kowalczyk said.