All quiet on the portal front

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1. A quiet day for the transfer portal

Wednesday may have been the slowest day of the offseason to date. Only four power conference schools landed a prospect, and all-in-all it was a quiet day across the sport in terms of transfer movement.

Two commitments stood out with Kentucky signing Washington State transfer guard Jerone Morton and Oregon landing Boston College transfer guard Fred Payne. We’ll also get to NC State’s pickup of Darius Adams.

Morton, the 6-4 guard, will bring some veteran experience to Kentucky’s backcourt. He’s started over 50 games in his college career and averaged 7.8 points and 2.6 assists last season at Washington State. Morton will likely slide into a bench role behind prized portal additions Zoom Diallo and Alex Wilkins.

Moving onto Oregon, the Ducks have landed its seventh transfer of the offseason with the addition of Payne (15.8 ppg last season). Their roster is starting to come together:

• Guards: Fred Payne, Jasper Johnson, Jerry Easter, Seven Spurlock

• Wings: Tyrone Riley IV, Andrew Meadow, Pharaoh Compton

• Frontcourt: Sean Stewart, Taylor Bol Bowen, Tajh Ariza, Kendre Harrison

Wednesday’s other notable portal commits:

• D-II guard Thomas Allard to Penn State

• Campbell transfer Dovydas Butka to Boise State

• Louisiana guard Dorian Finister to Charlotte

• Texas A&M guard Josh Holloway to Memphis

• North Dakota guard Greyson Uelmen to Northern Iowa

• Vanderbilt wing Tyler Harris to UNLV

• USC Upstate guard Karmani Gregory, Buffalo forward Aleksa Vlajić to Indiana State

• NJIT forward Jordan Rogers, Samford guard Kam Martin to Denver

• Northern Illinois guard Taj Walters, Temple forward Jamai Felt to Little Rock

• Kansas guard Corbin Allen to App State

• Cal State Fullerton guard Bryce Cofield to Cal State Bakersfield

• Rider forward Caleb Smith to Cal State Northridge

• Longwood guard Emanuel Richards to Eastern Michigan

• Barry (DII) F/C Marko Šarenac is transferring to Elon

• Pittsburgh center Kieran Mullen to Florida Atlantic

• Delaware guard Cavan Reilly to James Madison

• VMI forward Kaden Stuckey to Le Moyne

• Xavier guard All Wright to LMU

• Maine forward Keelan Steele to Mercer

• Nicholls wing Jalik Dunkley to Robert Morris

• D-II guard Corbin Pack to Queens

• Queens guard Jimma James to Southern

• Southern Miss guard Felipe Patino to Stonehill

• New Orleans guard TJ Cope to Tarleton State

• Wagner forward Binael Basil to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

• Furman wing Asa Thomas to UIC

• South Carolina forward EJ Walker to Western Kentucky

In non-portal roster news:

Ole Miss announced three returners for next season, while New Hampshire announced six.

Other returning players:

• Will Mortimore (Charleston)

• Brian Amuneke (Fresno State)

• Christian Landry (Louisiana)

• Danilo Jovanovic (Milwaukee)

• Max Lorenson (Minnesota)

• Andy Stefonowicz (North Dakota State)

• Omer Suljanovic (UC Davis)

• Branford Evans and Mason Lawson (VMI).

2. Assessing NC State’s roster build thus far

New NC State coach Justin Gainey is one month into his tenure as of this morning, and he probably hasn’t had much of a chance to sleep trying to fill out a roster.

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