The portal's closed. Now what?

That’ll do it for players entering the transfer portal for this cycle. More than 2,500 players submitted their names. That includes roughly 250 walk-ons and another 200 that are out of eligibility. In fact, most of the late entries last night were players without eligibility.

So let’s get into what happened on Tuesday.

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1. USC’s Claude headlines last batch of portal entrants

So. Barring any coaching changes, no other players can enter the transfer portal. That includes graduate transfers, who until this season could enter at any time.

The only portal entry exceptions are if a program has a coaching change. Then a player has 30 days to enter his name into the portal.

That means about 44% of the sport’s total 5,607 players from the 2024-25 season entered the portal, including walk-ons and all those players without eligibility. It’s also a big jump from the 2,083 players who entered last season.

And all those players hoping for an extra year of eligibility? They won’t know anything until after the House v. NCAA settlement is finalized. That ruling likely will happen in the next few weeks.

As for Tuesday, the biggest name who hit the portal was USC guard Desmond Claude, who also hit the portal last year. The 6-6 guard averaged 15.8 ppg, 3.5 rpg and 4.2 assists. The only hole in Claude’s game is perimeter shooting, as he went 23-for-75 (30%) from deep.

USC coach Eric Musselman already made one move to replace Claude’s production (we’ll get into that later), but it’ll be interesting if the Trojans try to push for a big name, such as P.J. Haggerty.

Other Tuesday portal entrants:

• FAU forward Baba Miller (11.3 ppg, 7.0 rpg)

• Utah State guard Ian Martinez (16.4 ppg)

• *High Point guard Bobby Pettiford (8.8 ppg, 3.4 apg)

• ETSU guard John Buggs (11 ppg)

• *Penn forward Nick Spinoso (13.3 ppg, 6.7 rpg)

• Kansas State guard CJ Jones (5.7 ppg)

• *Lehigh guard Keith Higgins Jr (17.9 ppg)

• *Charleston Southern forward Taje’ Kelly (20.5 ppg, 8.9 rpg)

• *Cornell guard Nazir Williams (14.9 ppg, 4.4 rpg)

• *Northwestern center Keenan Fitzmorris (2.1 ppg)

• *Delaware guard Tahron Allen (4.6 ppg)

• *UTEP forward Kevin Kalu (7.9 ppg, 5.7 rpg)

• *Delaware guard Niels Lane (13.7 ppg, 4.4 rpg)

• *High Point guard D’Maurian Williams (13.5 ppg)

• *William & Mary guard Gabe Dorsey (13.4 ppg)

• *Villanova guard Jordan Longino (11.1 ppg)

• USC forward Rashuan Agee (9.4 ppg, 4.5 rpg)

• *USC guard Saint Thomas (9.5 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 4.2 apg)

• *Wyoming guard Jordan Nesbitt (8.6 ppg, 6.9 rpg)

• *La Salle guard Daeshon Shepard (10 ppg, 4.2 rpg)

• *FGCU guard Zavien McLean (11.6 ppg, 4.2 rpg)

• *Virginia Tech forward Ben Burnham (7.5 ppg)

• *Syracuse forward Jyare Davis (9.4 ppg, 4.9 rpg)

• *Maryland forward Julian Reese (13.3 ppg, 9.0 rpg)

• *Syracuse guard Jaquan Carlos (6.2 ppg)

• *Butler guard Pierre Brooks (15.2 ppg)

• *San Diego State guard Wayne McKinney (6.4 ppg)

• *Iowa guard Drew Thelwell (9.5 ppg, 3 apg)

• *Sacramento State forward Jacob Holt (16.3 ppg)

• *UTEP forward Otis Frazier (13.2 ppg, 5.3 rpg)

• *Georgia State forward Cesare Edwards (16.2 ppg, 7.3 rpg)

• *Sam Houston guard Marcus Boykin (12.3 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 4.7 apg)

• *Providence guard Wesley Cardet Jr (8.4 ppg)

• Cornell guard Cooper Noord (13.2 ppg)

• *Northern Colorado guard Jaron Rillie (12.1 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 4.6 apg)

• *Mercer guard Tyler Johnson (15.7 ppg)

• *Wichita State guard Xavier Bell (15.2 ppg)

• *Texas A&M guard Zhuric Phelps (13.6 ppg, 5 rpg)

• *Wichita State forward Ronnie DeGray (6 ppg, 5.1 rpg)

• *McNeese State guard Brandon Murray (7.6 ppg)

• *Fordham guard Jackie Johnson III (19.5 ppg)

* no eligibility

2. Rodney Rice switches coasts + other portal commits

USC wanted a Wesley Yates replacement. It got one in Maryland transfer Rodney Rice.

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