Since Saturday, Vanderbilt has seen four players from the 2022-23 team enter the transfer portal. Add on Myles Stute (who entered the transfer portal prior to the team’s NIT run) and Tyrin Lawrence (who declared for the NBA Draft, though he’s maintaining his college eligibility), and the departures of Liam Robbins and Emmanuel Ansong (both of whom are out of eligibility), and Vanderbilt potentially could be losing eight scholarship players off last year’s team.
Are we starting over? Is this something to panic about? No, not yet. Here’s why.
This is just the new normal
Look, I hate to be this reductive, because a large number of portal departures can be a sign of negative momentum within a program.