Jeremiah Williams to the transfer portal.

[wenkeej]

Disappointing but not shocking given Lipsey's development into the starting 1. Guessing Williams came here to be that, it didn't work out, and he's looking to be a starter somewhere else.

And, without knowing but guessing, he might be in line to graduate next week?

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

*cough* https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4702670/grant-nelson *cough*

Would be amazing but this guy is wanted by everyone in the country.

 

[singsing]

Plenty deep at guard with Lipsey, Watson, Hamilton, and the 3 transfers. We need a good post, so I'll add another cough.
Nelson/Jones/Ward at the five
Omaha/ King/ Milan at the four
Any combo of those six guards with that front court would be salty.

 

[HFCS]

Not surprising at all, it's only been 9 months since his Achilles injury. It would have been 2024-25 before he even contributed at all. He'll probably only be 50% of the player he was at Temple this upcoming season and that won't cut it in the Big 12.

This is kind of what I was worried about. I'm actually not surprised.

 

[cyclones500]

For some reason I thought it was expected that he was going to transfer for a while now, but maybe I’m not remembering it correctly.

I don't recall hearing that, although I wouldn't be the best go-to person for that info.

If anything, I'm a little surprised his decision to enter portal didn't come a little sooner after the other guard commitments. Maybe assessment took longer (for him and staff) and didn't get rolling until after Jones came aboard (he was mid-April, Gilbert & Pav early April).

 

[Drew0311]

Guessing this was a mutual thing. Hopefully we can add a big

 

[2122]

I thought I'd hate the portal but now I'm liking it.
What the over/under on # of days till next portal addition announced? I'd say 5 days.

 

[nrg4isu]

Grant Nelson? Another pg/sg type? Who would we be going after next?

 

[Cychl82]

Well dang I was hoping he’d be a nice role guard next year

 

[Gunnerclone]

Good luck to him wherever he lands! The writing was on the wall. Now the question is do we backfill that spot, and if so, is it actually already filled?

 

[Ctrans]

Would be amazing but this guy is wanted by everyone in the country.

Nelson would be an absolute homerun. TJ needs to work magic and get this guy signed.

 

[Clonehomer]

I don't recall hearing that, although I wouldn't be the best go-to person for that info.

If anything, I'm a little surprised his decision to enter portal didn't come a little sooner after the other guard commitments. Maybe assessment took longer (for him and staff) and didn't get rolling until after Jones came aboard (he was mid-April, Gilbert & Pav early April).

I'd guess it has more to do with the academic calendar than the sports season calendar. Tough to go to class every day with everyone knowing you're out the door.

 

[IowaState88]

Didn’t see this one coming, but the move is understandable.

Williams is coming off of a devastating Achilles injury and would be trying to carve out time in a somewhat crowded guard room - thanks to the portal.

Gotta remember that the last time he played basketball was at Temple in the American conf. It’s already a big change going from that type of competition to the Big 12, and I imagine returning from an achilles injury, makes that even more difficult.

Would imagine he ends up at a decent mid major or low level power five team.

 

[clonedude]

I didn't think there was any way that we'd go into next year with just the few 'bigs' we have on the roster. It was very odd to me that we added 3 guards and not one single big. But now it makes sense.

 

[clonedude]

Do we have a serious chance with Nelson at all? Does anyone know?

 

[IowaState88]

I didn't think there was any way that we'd go into next year with just the few 'bigs' we have on the roster. It was very odd to me that we added 3 guards and not one single big. But now it makes sense.

Same here, I thought for sure we would get two guards and one big with our initial three open spots. This clearly makes grabbing a big man more manageable.

 

[IowaState88]

Do we have a serious chance with Nelson at all? Does anyone know?

I’ve heard that he has offers of 500K+ so judging off that, no.

 

[Clonefan32]

Can only mean one thing— Lipseys
jumpshot has improved so much TJ told Williams he couldn’t take Tamin off the floor this year. That’s gotta be it.

 

[nfrine]

Do we have a serious chance with Nelson at all? Does anyone know?

If TJ wants him...he will get him.

 

[Drew0311]

Now we have room to get Ron Holland on board