The transfer portal has been variety to West Virginia this offseason. WVU’s coaching staff has been able to acquire commitments from Erik Stevenson, Joe Toussaint, Emmitt Matthews Jr. and most not too long ago, Tre Mitchell. With the superior information will come the lousy as now the group has 14 gamers, needing to make the 13 scholarship limit.
2022-23 WVU MEN’S BASKETBALL ROSTER:
JIMMY BELL JR.
JOSIAH DAVIS
JOSIAH HARRIS
KEDRIAN JOHNSON
KOBE JOHNSON
JAMEL KING
EMMITT MATTHEWS, JR.
TRE MITCHELL
JAMES OKONKWO
ERIK STEVENSON
PATRICK SUEMNICK
JOE TOUSSAINT
MOHAMED WAGUE
SETH WILSON
This is a good problem for WVU to have but sadly, somebody is going to have to give up their location. Let’s just take a glimpse at how West Virginia can make up one location.
1. Deliver Somebody TO PREP University
Prep university is not a demotion. Players have been sent there or committed there in the previous and have turned out fine. Again in 2019, Jalen Bridges almost went to prep school but determined to occur to WVU and redshirt his freshman time. Prep school can go a extended way to establishing a player and there are a lot of excellent applications out there.
WVU’s coaching employees would most possible focus on incoming freshmen Josiah Davis or Josiah Harris to head to prep faculty for a calendar year. If the team can continue to keep the picked player’s commitment for another calendar 12 months, that participant can come on campus in 2023.
2. Participant IS Questioned TO Go away
No one wants this solution. It is the truth of school athletics now in the course of the transfer portal era. There is a limit on scholarships that the NCAA grants to the basketball courses and each individual team has to accommodate those policies.
There have been feelings of possessing a recent scholarship participant walk-on and make income by way of his identify, image and likeness. That won’t be in a position to do the job because of to the participant possessing a scholarship. Wander-ons can gain scholarships and then return as walk-ons, but scholarship gamers are not capable to transition into wander-on gamers.
The full structure of the roster could modify if the rumors of Courtney Ramey are genuine. WV Sports activities Now described back in April that West Virginia had arrived at out to Ramey after he entered the transfer portal. Ramey also entered the NBA Draft and is now working out in Las Vegas. The previous Longhorn will have until eventually June 1 to acquire his name out of the draft. If Ramey does decide to arrive to WVU, Bob Huggins and his team will have to make area for two players.
