"To measure which programs added, or lost, more star power through the portal in 2025 compared to the four previous portal cycles, we developed a simple scoring system to calculate an "average net score" for each team based on incoming and outgoing players who made Jeff Borzello's top 100 transfers in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024."
"The team with the most transfer talent added in a single portal cycle since Borzello began ranking the available players in 2021 was Texas that very same year, but incoming stars are only half of the formula -- we also tracked the points lost to outgoing transfers, which hurt teams such as LSU and St. Bonaventure in 2022, both of which lost 13 points of transfer star power in a single portal cycle."
The transfer portal's creation in 2018 and the later removal of the sit-out-year rule allowed teams to overhaul rosters quickly and changed college basketball roster construction. The portal became a primary way for coaches to add experienced talent. A points-based system assigns 5 points for transfers ranked 1–10, 4 for 11–25, 3 for 26–45, 2 for 46–70 and 1 for 71–100 using Jeff Borzello's top-100 lists from 2021–24. Both incoming and outgoing transfer points are tracked to compute each program's average net score. Texas had the most incoming transfer talent in 2021, while LSU and St. Bonaventure each lost 13 points in 2022. Programs' 2025 classes were compared to their 2021–24 averages, and honorable-mention transfers outside the top 100 were still considered.
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