The Transfer Portal Opens Today and College Basketball's Wildest Two Weeks Just Started
Michigan won the national championship. Now comes the chaos.
The college basketball transfer portal officially opened on Tuesday, and everything moves fast from here. Players across the country can now enter their names, visit schools, and commit to new programs. But here's the thing: this window is the shortest one yet. You've got two weeks until April 21 to enter the portal, then it closes. After that? Teams can still poach players, but the mad scramble happens right now.
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Behind the scenes, schools have been doing homework for weeks, lining up target lists and figuring out who might be available. But now the real spending begins. There's a growing consensus around college basketball that $12 million is the floor to build a top-25 roster. Expect a flood of visits getting scheduled this week and the first big dominoes to fall.
Michigan proved you can win it all with a portal-heavy squad. Three of their four starting guards, Morez Johnson and Elliot Cadeau, were top-75 portal pickups in 2025. Their championship roster was basically built on the open market. But the portal can be brutal too. One bad haul and you're stuck for a year.
Tennessee Already Making Moves
Tennessee landed the first high-major commitment of the cycle: former Belmont wing Tyler Lundblade. The 6-foot-5 sharpshooter led the country in three-point percentage last season, hitting 48.1% from deep. The Dallas native shot 40.6% from three for Belmont last year while averaging 15.6 points and making 93.4% of his free throws. He played only 52 total minutes in his first three seasons before breaking out with Belmont, where he started 32 games last year.
New Coaches Have No Time
Here's what makes this chaos even wilder: newly hired coaches have almost no prep time. The NCAA Tournament just ended, the coaching carousel is winding down, and boom, the portal opens. Coaches hired last week don't have months to analyze rosters or scout targets. They have to hit the ground running on day one.
Five weeks. That's the window where the NCAA Tournament happens, coaches get hired, and the portal opens. It's absolute madness, and it starts now.
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