The truth about college basketball has been the sport’s critical presence in the prominence of the transfer portal. We won’t really comment in detail on that reality other than to note that every lawsuit and legal challenge to the old order of doing things in the NCAA has been led by basketball players.
When it comes to Virginia Tech women’s basketball, however, the benefits of the portal have greatly outweighed the deficits when it comes to dealing with the major transition with the departure of Kenny Brooks and the players following him. There is a variation of the description of the Transfer Portal; what the portal taketh away, the portal giveth back.