{"id":1150751,"date":"2025-03-26T09:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1150751"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:51:36","slug":"wild-graphic-shows-how-rampant-portal-use-is-within-college-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wild-graphic-shows-how-rampant-portal-use-is-within-college-hoops\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Graphic Shows How Rampant Portal Use is Within College Hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times have changed in college sports over the last several years with the ever-increasing influence of Name, Image, and Likeness and the growing widespread use of the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>While much of the publicity has been on college football, the basketball court has also changed dramatically in that same time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, both the Alabama and Auburn men\u2019s basketball teams have found their way into the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 1986, partly thanks to NIL and the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>A graphic shared on X showed where the starting 5 from all the remaining teams in the NCAA tournament began their college careers. The two SEC schools were included.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Where every Sweet 16 Team&#8217;s Starting-5 began playing college basketball.<br \/>\n(Try to figure out which teams are which) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MPomf1dyuT\">pic.twitter.com\/MPomf1dyuT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCAA Buzzer Beaters &amp; Game Winners (@NCAABuzzerBters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAABuzzerBters\/status\/1904514856478445808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While there are exceptions such as Purdue, Michigan State, and Duke, a huge amount of the teams remaining \u2013 including both the Tide and Tigers \u2013 do not have much homegrown talent.<\/p>\n<p>With Mark Sears coming from Ohio, Grant Nelson from North Dakota State, Chris Youngblood originally from Kennesaw State before going to South Florida,\u00a0Clifford Omoruyi coming from Rutgers, and only freshman Labaron Philon starting in Tuscaloosa, it\u2019s quite the eclectic collection of players.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers are not much different than Alabama, with Johni Broome starting his college career at Morehead State,\u00a0<span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Chad Baker-Mazara at Duquesne, Miles Kelly at Georgia Tech,\u00a0<span class=\"truncate db Boxscore__AthleteName Boxscore__AthleteName--long\">Denver Jones at Florida International, and only Dylan Cardwell at Auburn.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The way things are going, don\u2019t expect things to change anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Times have changed in college sports over the last several years with the ever-increasing influence of Name, Image, and Likeness and the growing widespread use <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wild-graphic-shows-how-rampant-portal-use-is-within-college-hoops\/\" title=\"Wild Graphic Shows How Rampant Portal Use is Within College Hoops\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1058720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,91,121,145,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1150751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-al-basketball","8":"category-alabama","9":"category-au-basketball","10":"category-auburn","11":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ddh20230312076_bama_vs_tamu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150752,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150751\/revisions\/1150752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}