2026 Vols Transfer Portal Thread

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VolArmy74 said:
But that's not great for a 6'11 guy shooting most of his shots within 5 feet. The NCAA 2pt fg leaders shot in the mid to upper 70s on 2pt fgs and 60.4 doesn't sniff the top 100. Cyril at Georgia shot 76 percent. There were entire teams who shot better than 60.4 percent from 2 this season.
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Only 9 players in all of college basketball shot above 71% in 2pt fg %

I'm sure if you count every single layup taken, by every single walk-on in garbage time of blowouts that you're correct.

There isn't a single team in all of college basketball that shot 53% FG though, so I'd need some proof for that claim.
 
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Millhouse said:
Hey Copy & Paste (@bleedingTNorange) , I don’t have a name. I do know he’s a big body, rotational guy. Not going to move the needle. More of 8 or 9 rotation guy. I haven’t had time to scour the internet like you. I’m sure it’s on VQ, Trilly or X.
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This was your chance and you blew it, SMH…I’ve got the name and I dropped a hint on this board as to who it is, once public I’ll bump it. Hate that you missed your chance to show everyone how I steal info, at least now you can crawl back to the basement I suppose.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Only 9 players in all of college basketball shot above 71% in 2pt fg %

I'm sure if you count every single layup taken, by every single walk-on in garbage time of blowouts that you're correct.

There isn't a single team in all of college basketball that shot 53% FG though, so I'd need some proof for that claim.
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The top 100 players shot 63.5 percent or better.

Indiana, Michigan, and Duke all shot 60.2 or better from 2 as a team in 2025-26, several other smaller schools did as well. 60.4 from 2 isn't great at all for a 6'11 post guy.
 
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Millhouse said:
Hey Copy & Paste (@bleedingTNorange) , I don’t have a name. I do know he’s a big body, rotational guy. Not going to move the needle. More of 8 or 9 rotation guy. I haven’t had time to scour the internet like you. I’m sure it’s on VQ, Trilly or X.
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MoCo_Vol said:
Emeka Opurum from Auburn now in the portal.

7'0 205lbs only played in 6 games and then missed the rest of the season with a medical condition. Was emerging quickly as a force for them though.

9.7mpg, 3.8ppg, 2.5rpg, 1.0bpg shooting 76.9% FG
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This looks promising. I hope we inquire.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
The top 100 players shot 63.5 percent or better.

Indiana, Michigan, and Duke all shot 60.2 or better from 2 as a team in 2025-26, several other smaller schools did as well. 60.4 from 2 isn't great at all for a 6'11 post guy.
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Please cite your source....there are a total of 8 teams that I can find that shot 60% from 2.

I also never said 60.4% was great...so I'm not going to continue debating that point.

JP would be a top 20 player in the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, & Big East with his 2 PT shooting %...far cry from "can't hit his layups" which was the only argument sharing the statistic was meant to do.

"Great" is subjective...how you define it is different than how I would.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
This was your chance and you blew it, SMH…I’ve got the name and I dropped a hint on this board as to who it is, once public I’ll bump it. Hate that you missed your chance to show everyone how I steal info, at least now you can crawl back to the basement I suppose.
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Charles Bediako.

No? Close?
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
This was your chance and you blew it, SMH…I’ve got the name and I dropped a hint on this board as to who it is, once public I’ll bump it. Hate that you missed your chance to show everyone how I steal info, at least now you can crawl back to the basement I suppose.
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why don’t you throw the name out there? A lot of people know we are hosting a player this evening. I told you what I know. Why want you name him? Is it because you don’t know either?!?!

I’ll tell you a name I see out there that’s being speculated on is Lue, the big from Kennesaw State.
 
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Millhouse said:
why don’t you throw the name out there? A lot of people know we are hosting a player this evening. I told you what I know. Why want you name him? Is it because you don’t know either?!?!

I’ll tell you a name I see out there that’s being speculated on is Lue, the big from Kennesaw State.
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Yikes lol. Palms getting sweaty, mom's spaghetti. bleedingTNorange coming at ya too hard and heavy..
 
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cncchris33 said:
That isn't the point. What you're proposing is a false equivalence.

Yes, it is a massive difference in production because you are taking the one of the best players (in most cases) from their former team and putting them together on a single team. Some of those guys are going to see their production drop, maybe even quite significantly because they are competing with better players for a more limited number of scoring opportunities.

•Lundblade scored 15.6 ppg on 11 attempts.
•Ames scored 16.9 ppg on 13 attempts.
•Haralson scored 16.2 ppg on 11 attempts.
•Hill scored 15 ppg on 10 attempts.
•Rubin scored 11.3 ppg on 8 attempts.

That's 53 FGAs among 5 players. Our top 5 in FGAs last year (Ament, Gillespie, Estrella, Carey, and Okpara) averaged 46 FGAs. But that same group of players also averaged 60 ppg. At the same opportunity rate as the group coming in, they'd have averaged 69 ppg. Those 5 are really the group this bunch is coming in to replace...not our outgoing transfers (Estrella, Evans, Boswell, Carey, Phillips, and Massamba).

Again, I'm NOT disagreeing with your premise that we likely upgraded across the board. I'm just disagreeing with your method of proving it.
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You're good bro. Let's dive deeper. I want us all to know this stuff better.

Don't you feel like minutes per game should be included since we're talking about scoring opportunities? Because there's a 26 minute per game, 6.2 ppg void in your scoring opportunities calculation with Bishop Boswell leaving. I feel like our calculations should include a guy who's on the court 65% of the game. I'm gonna drop some minutes per game and i wanna see what you can do with them

Gillispie: 34.8 mins, 18.4 ppg
Ament: 29.7 mins, 16.7 ppg
Okpara 26.2 mins, 8 ppg
Boswell: 26 mins, 6.2 ppg
Carey: 18.5 mins, 7.4
Estrella: 18.3 mins, 10 ppg

Incoming guys:
Lundblade: 34.1 mins, 15.6 ppg
Ames: 31.9 mins, 16.9 ppg
Haralson: 26.7 mins, 16.2 ppg
Hill Jr: 25 mins, 15.0 ppg
Rubin 29.7 mins, 11.3 ppg

Lundblade and Ames's mpg and therefore their points per game are sure to come down as they'll be rotating the guard spots.

Again, we're working on this together. Not arguing. Let's just explore a more accurate methodology. I love this ****
 
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berryvol said:
No clue what this even means, but I think it’s good? Maybe?

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I said this in the other thread specifically on Nate, but I think the quote is implying that Nate’s heart is with one more year here, but he doesn’t have a choice because he’s getting feedback he’ll be a guaranteed lottery pick and he needs to take that.
 
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