2025 Portal Season

[Verdad]

2025-26 ROSTER

GP

MIN

PTS

REB

AST

STL

BLK

TO

FG%

FT%

3P%

PRIOR SCHOOL

BACKGROUND/25-26 status

K. Mincy PG 6'1 185

33​

31.8​

15​

2.6​

4.4​

1.5​

0.1​

2.3​

40​

79.1​

36.8​

Presbyterian

True junior w/ 44 career starts

B. O'Connor G 6'4 207

36

27.9

9.1

2.8

3

0.9

0.3

2.1

44.8

80.4

37.6

Senior

M. Troutman G 6'4

13​

24.2​

13.5​

1.7​

0.8​

0.5​

0.1​

1.8​

43.5​

80​

39.6​

Northeastern

rising true senior with 46 career starts

J. Long G 6'5 200

30

18.5

4.7

1.2

1.4

0.6

0.2

0.9

41.6

77.4

35.5

UMD - 23/24 stats

2 years at Seton Hall, 2 years at UMD, did not play last year due to ACL - 2 years remaining per Kaufman

J. Hill G 6'5 185

31​

32.4​

15.8​

5.1​

3.2​

1​

0.3​

2.8​

42.3​

67.1​

23.2​

Ball St.

Senior? 1st 2 years at Juco, last year was 1st/only year at D1

D. Adebayo F 6'8 210

36​

29.1​

13.2​

6.9​

1​

0.9​

1.1​

2.3​

51.5​

73.8​

30.6​

Mt. St. Mary

5th year Senior with 51 career starts

N. Ellington F 6'7 235

33

23.4

9.9

5.4

0.5

0.7

1.2

1.2

56.1

61.4

0

Murray State

1st year at JUCO, 1 year at Eastern Illinois, last 2 as starter at Murray St, who made 2nd round of NIT last year - 1 year left if JUCO didn't count?

S. Sivka F 6'10 210

14

4.6

1.5

0.9

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.1

61.5

33.3

50

Sophomore

E. Kanga F 6'8 215

Freshman - 4star recruit, potential immediate impact player/contributor

D. Booker G 6'5 180

Freshman

OPEN1

OPEN2

OPEN3

Total

192

82.7

14.4

14

PORTAL TARGETS

GP

MIN

PTS

REB

AST

STL

BLK

TO

FG%

FT%

3P%

SCHOOL

Status

G. Jones F 6'6 195

33

26.8

10.3

3.9

1

0.8

0.1

1.4

50.2

85.4

43.8

American

Mom works at Mason, rising true Junior

K. Martin G 6'4

32

28

8.4

1.7

1.4

0.9

0.2

1.6

39.8

81.3

34.6

Long Beach State

On campus visit 4/2, MD kid, played at Blue Ridge School in VA, rising true sophomore

 

[Patriotsince81]

How can head coaches put up with this crap? I predict that at some point fairly soon all of the portal/NIL BS is going to implode.

Interesting comments by Scott Van Pelt on ESPN.

Scott Van Pelt on transfer portal: 'How does that make any sense to anybody?'

SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt is not a fan of every college player being a free agent every offseason thanks to the transfer portal.

awfulannouncing.com

 

[mkaufman1]

Interesting comments by Scott Van Pelt on ESPN.

Scott Van Pelt on transfer portal: 'How does that make any sense to anybody?'

SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt is not a fan of every college player being a free agent every offseason thanks to the transfer portal.

awfulannouncing.com

I agree with where he is coming from.

1) Free agency every year is lame
2) It is now schools with boosters who are loaded vs schools who don't have loaded boosters
3) Portal should not open until after the tournament

However without any rules (even if they would be broken) regarding transferring, caps, and the like, its the wild wild west. However, somehow ratings are still there which is great and as the article said "Despite itself".

Somehow the casual fan is still amused.

 

[Masonfan3]

I agree with where he is coming from.

1) Free agency every year is lame
2) It is now schools with boosters who are loaded vs schools who don't have loaded boosters
3) Portal should not open until after the tournament

However without any rules (even if they would be broken) regarding transferring, caps, and the like, its the wild wild west. However, somehow ratings are still there which is great and as the article said "Despite itself".

Somehow the casual fan is still amused.

Ratings might be ok right now but that is going to change soon. We have never seen the portal like it is now and you are going to start having guys (already happening in football) sit out/skip practice/skip games/etc. over money.

 

[mkaufman1]

Ratings might be ok right now but that is going to change soon. We have never seen the portal like it is now and you are going to start having guys (already happening in football) sit out/skip practice/skip games/etc. over money.

Apparently the ratings were very good according to that article referenced above. I'm surprised that it hasn't happened yet where the casual fan has tuned out. It will be interesting to see if something changes.

I see message boards folks beating the drums on this and the same topics (portal sucks, NIL craziness, guys sitting). Not just Masonhoops but others that I've taken a look at.

 

[GMUgemini]

Apparently the ratings were very good according to that article referenced above. I'm surprised that it hasn't happened yet where the casual fan has tuned out. It will be interesting to see if something changes.

I see message boards folks beating the drums on this and the same topics (portal sucks, NIL craziness, guys sitting). Not just Masonhoops but others that I've taken a look at.

Don’t think casual fans would care (it’s just a sport and they tune in during March Madness or bowl season and that’s about it), it’s people like us that it affects the most, which will dry up the money these players are chasing if they kill their base support.

Already teams are starting to limit roster spots, schools are dropping out of D1, money is funneling to the top but the whole pipeline from low to mid majors might get blown up.

The next 5 years are critical to what is going to happen.

 

[mkaufman1]

Don’t think casual fans would care (it’s just a sport and they tune in during March Madness or bowl season and that’s about it), it’s people like us that it affects the most, which will dry up the money these players are chasing if they kill their base support.

Already teams are starting to limit roster spots, schools are dropping out of D1, money is funneling to the top but the whole pipeline from low to mid majors might get blown up.

The next 5 years are critical to what is going to happen.

Definitely agree. The question is, are there enough people in each fanbase to kill off support or are the majority of folks just casual and will go with the flow regardless if the team is new each year. And also whether they are D1 or D3.

 

[gmujim92]

Apparently the ratings were very good according to that article referenced above. I'm surprised that it hasn't happened yet where the casual fan has tuned out. It will be interesting to see if something changes.

I see message boards folks beating the drums on this and the same topics (portal sucks, NIL craziness, guys sitting). Not just Masonhoops but others that I've taken a look at.

TV ratings are driven heavily by gambling, which is only getting bigger and bigger. The death of college sports won’t be when the casuals go away, it will be when the all-in nerds like us who frequent message boards throw up their hands and say enough is enough … and that day is coming.

 

[jessej]

Ratings mentioned are for the first week of the NCAA Tourney and presumably the whole NCAA Tourney. As mentioned above that is significantly driven by gamblers and bracketeers. What is more important is the attendance effects on all programs except the top 25 and the Blue Bloods, as 300+ programs will not be in the NCAA Tourney.

Consider GMU with 2 returning players and a mix of 1 year graduating seniors and grad students and others who many of which will be expected to leave for another program at the end of the season. What type of attendance does that roster generate?

How many STH renew? and how many new STH and partial STH come with that roster?

 

[psyclone]

I trust Skinn, but this roster feels really different. Last year, it was mostly guys who had made an impact at the P5 level. This year, it’s more players who stood out at smaller programs.

"NIL feels a lot like the real estate market. Last year, I could get a solid single-family home for $600K. This year, that same budget barely gets me a shoebox. The prices have shot up, and the value just doesn’t stretch as far anymore.

Certainly, Darius and KD had an impact at the P5 level and to some extent Woody did as well in his last yr at Oklahoma St (15-20 min/game but only scored double digits twice).

But don't overlook what others have done with players from smaller programs. Classic example is Drake who made it to the second round of the NCAAs and only lost 3 regular season games. Their new coach brought 4 of his Division 2 team (NW Missouri St) with him.

Drake's band of Division II transfers ready for March Madness

Drake didn't miss a beat this year despite a coaching change and an overhauled roster, and the Bulldogs aren't done yet."We've got more to do."

www.kcci.com

Naturally, one of the differences between that situation and Mason's is that all 4 transfers had already played together and for the same coach (who had won 4 Division 2 national championships in his career). Nevertheless, they were unheralded guys who clearly proved they could play D-1 basketball successfully.

For the most part, Tony and staff are putting together a group of stand-outs from smaller D-1 programs (closer to an all-star team of lower level programs). Their task, and I don't want to underestimate the difficulty of this, is to get them to play together and play in his system. A fair number of these transfers are in their last yr of eligibility so it's their "last rodeo", if you will. That was largely true of this past year's team as well, although we had Darius, Woody, and Jared to serve as models.

Fingers crossed that the coaches can instill the same attitude this time around!

 

[gmubrian]

Small sample size and anecdotal at best, but, the diehard A10 fans I follow on X that have complained the loudest about the current system seemed to follow all the games throughout the year and they seem to be talking about recruiting/portal non-stop as well. Seems similar on the boards here as well. So, while people seem to expressing their dissatisfaction with it verbally, it hasn't seemed to impact their actions much.

Tough to predict the future, but, this scenario we are in right now with NIL with House settlement/revenue share expected but still in limbo waiting for the courts would seem to be the most chaotic and if the House settlement becomes the law of the land, I would expect things to settle down a little bit (assuming the NCAA doesn't mess something up completely/lose another major lawsuit). If we haven't lost many of the diehards from the current environment, I wouldn't expect to lose them in the coming years either.

 

[gmujim92]

I trust Skinn, but this roster feels really different. Last year, it was mostly guys who had made an impact at the P5 level. This year, it’s more players who stood out at smaller programs.

"NIL feels a lot like the real estate market. Last year, I could get a solid single-family home for $600K. This year, that same budget barely gets me a shoebox. The prices have shot up, and the value just doesn’t stretch as far anymore.

Really?

Darius — absolutely
KD — yep
Woody — not really, but I’ll give you that one

Everyone else was a HS commit or transfer up.

Pretty sure the difference this offseason is the market for even sparingly used P4 players has gone off the chain, so the staff had to pivot and find the best value where they could.

I’m comforted by the fact that Drake won 30-plus games, won the MVC and reached the Round of 32 with a bunch of guys who transferred up from Division II.

There are good players all over the place, hopefully Tony can coach up this group of guys into a winning team.

 

[Dawgs99]

Benny Williams.....Big man , 6-10, from Bowie just jumped in the Portal. Played last season at UCF, started his career at Syracuse. Someone to watch as we still need another big IMO.

 

[Patriot8]

Benny Williams.....Big man , 6-10, from Bowie just jumped in the Portal. Played last season at UCF, started his career at Syracuse. Someone to watch as we still need another big IMO.

Thought the same thing, and then I saw that he played 3 years at Syracuse and 1 at UCF. Nothing close to a possible medical redshirt either.

No idea where he's going to get eligibility from.

 

[mkaufman1]

Benny Williams.....Big man , 6-10, from Bowie just jumped in the Portal. Played last season at UCF, started his career at Syracuse. Someone to watch as we still need another big IMO.

That is a name I haven't heard in a long time. Pretty sure Paulsen was after him in like 2018.

That said to @Patriot8 point, I highly doubt he has any eligibility left if he has played his 4 years. I'm confused at guys going in the portal and they already did 4 years.

 

[gmubrian]

Atlantic 10 Rosters 2025-26

docs.google.com

Perfect timing. I have been hearing everyone hyping SLU and I wanted to compare their roster as of now to ours and was trying to collect data, and now I have it all right there!

Using 100% science, sure to be a better predictor than KenPom, so much so that we might not even need to play the games, I have taken the information from that spreadsheet, extrapolated what a players points, rebounds and assists per game would be per 40 minutes played as long as they had 4 or more minutes a game last season. Then I averaged that multiplied by 5 to get the projected team totals in each category.

Here are the results. As you can see, we will pretty much dominate the league! You can book it!

TEAM	PPG	RPG	APG
DAVIDSON	45.14679681	30.60945705	6.765567891
DAYTON	64.78720442	31.5138535	11.06603689
DUQUESNE	81.00508	36.64836	11.16183612
FORDHAM	71.46485624	36.5956909	8.480723546
GEORGE MASON	82.45986005	28.42981114	13.2692652
GEORGE WASHINGTON	75.66460642	29.01893555	12.68284053
LA SALLE	68.25255279	33.60642953	11.98155066
LOYOLA	67.98511441	28.99105259	20.41118004
RHODE ISLAND	63.992981	37.10040794	10.89573482
RICHMOND	66.21589594	29.73840706	14.63520432
SAINT LOUIS	71.45350605	35.21884276	13.50638896
ST BONAVENTURE	70.29321161	38.02948793	10.88994071
ST JOSEPHS	58.79334858	40.68466648	10.1561643
vcu	71.97738735	35.64682505	14.73692709

 

[Patriotsince81]

Perfect timing. I have been hearing everyone hyping SLU and I wanted to compare their roster as of now to ours and was trying to collect data, and now I have it all right there!

Using 100% science, sure to be a better predictor than KenPom, so much so that we might not even need to play the games, I have taken the information from that spreadsheet, extrapolated what a players points, rebounds and assists per game would be per 40 minutes played as long as they had 4 or more minutes a game last season. Then I averaged that multiplied by 5 to get the projected team totals in each category.

Here are the results. As you can see, we will pretty much dominate the league! You can book it!

TEAM	PPG	RPG	APG
DAVIDSON	45.14679681	30.60945705	6.765567891
DAYTON	64.78720442	31.5138535	11.06603689
DUQUESNE	81.00508	36.64836	11.16183612
FORDHAM	71.46485624	36.5956909	8.480723546
GEORGE MASON	82.45986005	28.42981114	13.2692652
GEORGE WASHINGTON	75.66460642	29.01893555	12.68284053
LA SALLE	68.25255279	33.60642953	11.98155066
LOYOLA	63.67960317	29.45925832	20.78274036
RHODE ISLAND	63.992981	37.10040794	10.89573482
RICHMOND	66.21589594	29.73840706	14.63520432
SAINT LOUIS	71.45350605	35.21884276	13.50638896
ST BONAVENTURE	70.29321161	38.02948793	10.88994071
ST JOSEPHS	58.79334858	40.68466648	10.1561643
vcu	71.97738735	35.64682505	14.73692709

Well shoot, can't argue with science! Better renew now before the invoices even come out. Using similar methods I have our attendance rising to 48,423 per game.

 

[psyclone]

Perfect timing. I have been hearing everyone hyping SLU and I wanted to compare their roster as of now to ours and was trying to collect data, and now I have it all right there!

Using 100% science, sure to be a better predictor than KenPom, so much so that we might not even need to play the games, I have taken the information from that spreadsheet, extrapolated what a players points, rebounds and assists per game would be per 40 minutes played as long as they had 4 or more minutes a game last season. Then I averaged that multiplied by 5 to get the projected team totals in each category.

Here are the results. As you can see, we will pretty much dominate the league! You can book it!

TEAM	PPG	RPG	APG
DAVIDSON	45.14679681	30.60945705	6.765567891
DAYTON	64.78720442	31.5138535	11.06603689
DUQUESNE	81.00508	36.64836	11.16183612
FORDHAM	71.46485624	36.5956909	8.480723546
GEORGE MASON	82.45986005	28.42981114	13.2692652
GEORGE WASHINGTON	75.66460642	29.01893555	12.68284053
LA SALLE	68.25255279	33.60642953	11.98155066
LOYOLA	63.67960317	29.45925832	20.78274036
RHODE ISLAND	63.992981	37.10040794	10.89573482
RICHMOND	66.21589594	29.73840706	14.63520432
SAINT LOUIS	71.45350605	35.21884276	13.50638896
ST BONAVENTURE	70.29321161	38.02948793	10.88994071
ST JOSEPHS	58.79334858	40.68466648	10.1561643
vcu	71.97738735	35.64682505	14.73692709

But we're weakest team in the league in rebounding!

 

[GMUgemini]

Don’t need to rebound if you make all your shots.

 

[psyclone]

Don’t need to rebound if you make all your shots.

But you do if you want to stop the other team from scoring on every possession!