It's just another version of AAU ball at this point.

We’ve contacted North Texas’s Micah Curtis. Only played in 3 games as a freshman this year while averaging 8ppg and 2rpg in 12mpg. 6’8 freshman. Some upside here for a rotational big.

From a post from Casey Crawford it seems like we have signed another player. It’s a meme adding a piece to the puzzle. Boals with a picture of a bobcat too.

It's Kolton Mitchell

Had 14 vs 2 seed Houston and 2 30+ pt games. Yes please.

To Texas A & M

I love the guards we're bringing in. I'm wondering if Boals is waiting to find a solid big that might slip through the portal cracks in the coming days/weeks.

So do we go 6-1 Mitchell, 6-1 D'Augustino, 6'5 Brogan, 6-8 Dusan and 6-7 Simmons next year? Bucket, Kuany, McKinney, Bowens and Mosley off bench. Still need 3. Is Brogan a project? How do we go 6'1 and 6'1 at the guards? I want to be optimistic but....

If the reports of trash talking are true, you hope Boals learned some lessons with how things turned out with Hadaway and he reigns it in early and often. Seems like a solid add. So was his 1st year at Idaho St a redshirt, making him a Junior not a Senior? Interesting that he is from Idaho, went to 2 Idaho schools, then bolts across the country to Appalachia.

I forget where I saw it (may have been here) but the reports are that the Ball State coach got a $1 million rev share budget which absolutely makes them a threat. So far they have 6 D1 portal commits and a high school signee, and they rank out on the EvanMiya projections as:

1. 1.53 - Babatunde Durobola - F - 6'8 (Temple)
Purely a paint player who played in 64 games at Temple over 2 years. In actual game data, his EM ratings were 1.04 (2025/26) and -0.33 (2024/25). Solid offensive player and an above average defender.

2. 1.33 - Javion Guy-King - G - 6'6 (Central Arkansas)
Played in 59 games in 2 seasons at Central Arkansas. His EM ratings were 1.37 (2025/26) and -0.49 (2023/24) and rates out as a good defensive player who is okay offensively.

3. 0.21 - K'jei Parker - G - 6'2 (UMass)
Played in 61 games in 2 seasons at UMass and FAMU. His EM ratings were 0.37 (2025/26) and -6.07 (2023/24). Had a very efficient scoring year at UMass and averaged nearly 41% from 3 on 5 attempts per game. Not a good defensive player but an elite shooter.

4. -0.19 - Trey Lewis - G - 6'6 (WMU)
Played in 73 games in 3 seasons at Loyola, PFW, and WMU. His EM ratings for the 2 seasons he played meaningful minutes (PFW and WMU) were -0.53 (2025/26) and -1.32 (2024/25). Very weak defensive metrics but has back to back seasons of shooting 38% from 3. So another 3 point specialist.

5. -0.51 - Jaden Smith - C - 6'11 (Saint Joseph's)
Played in 11 games for Fordham in 24/25 and 36 games for St Joes (averaged 9 mins per game) in 25/26. His EM rating for St Joes last season was a -2.38 and he was by far the lowest-ranked person on his team. St. Joes ran an 8 man rotation and their best 4 all rated better than a 2, their 5/6 rated better than 0.5. The metrics show that he is an okay offensive player but a liability defensively and had the lowest defensive rebounding % on his team despite being 6'11. There is upside, but doesn't project out to be a clear impact player.

6. -1.32 - Aaron Fine - G - 6'2 (Purdue)
His "projection" is low but it is because I would flag him as a volatile projection and a player without real playing time. The EM Data defaults them to somewhere around -1, but those players can easily turn into a Daniel Freitag and be an All-MAC guy or they could also be an Ike Cornish and struggle for minutes.

HM - Their recent high school signee (G - Kam McGilveary) will be a player with a really high ceiling. His offers included: Maryland, Oklahoma State, Arizona State, TCU, SMU, Nebraska, LSU, Cal, and Miss State. I have to assume that if Ball State is getting a guy with that many P4 offers, he is probably going to play right away and the selling point was "come get playing time here and position yourself to transfer up."

The other school that is making some serious moves in the portal that you might not expect is Western Michigan. They've got 4 guys coming in that all rank higher than any player they had last year.

When the portal season finishes up and I update the Analysis thread, I'll include in that something that I did last year where I analyzed the 2025 Transfer Portal projections against the actual 2025/2026 ratings.The findings were that coaching and system fits can really elevate those projections. There were a few MAC teams where most of the transfers outperformed the projections.

Valid concerns. I'm more concerned with the ability to stay in front of opposing guards, though. That was probably the biggest problem defensively last year, IMO.

Have you seen Brogan’s tape?

I mean, I’m not one to get all excited about someone’s edited mixtape - but he’s got some serious skill. 6’5 lefty. Ball-handler. Can get to the rim. He showed some real skill in the FIBA games vs USA, and others