For the past couple of seasons, the preseason themes and talking points for the WKU men’s basketball program have been centered around a great deal of roster turnover and new faces. In each of the past two seasons, 10 first-year players joined the Hilltoppers at the start of the season. Half of those newcomers to this year’s and last year’s teams were the type of player that is becoming ever so popular in college basketball: transfer players from another school.
ESPN’s college basketball insider Jeff Goodman has been compiling a list of transfer players during every offseason for the past decade or so.