TRANSFER PORTAL 2026

[Loca5174]

Current Transfer Portal players

The class of the player is from last basketball season

Outgoing

Name	Status	Year	Position	Team Leaving	Team going to
Tylen Riley	Entered	Junior	PG	Tulsa
Terrance Ford Jr.	Entered	Senior	SG	Tulsa
Nick Richart	Entered	Junior	C	Charlotte
Anton Bonke	Entered	Junior	C	Charlotte
Corey Caulker	Entered	Sophomore	PG	East Carolina
Tybo Bailey	Entered	Sophomore	SG	East Carolina
Reid Cason	Entered	Sophomore	PF	East Carolina
Devin Williams	Entered	Junior	PF	Florida Atlantic
Jack Johnson	Entered	RS- Junior	CG	Florida Atlantic
Josiah Parker	Entered	Freshman	PF	Florida Atlantic
Devin Vanterpool	Expected	Junior	SG	Florida Atlantic
Isaiah Elohim	Entered	Sophomore	SG	Florida Atlantic
Quante Berry	Entered	Senior	PG	Memphis
Curtis Givens	Expected	Sophomore	PG	Memphis
Ashton Hardaway	Expected	Junior	PF	Memphis
Nick Anderson	Entered	Senior	SG	Rice
Aaron Powell	Entered	Sophomore	PG	Rice
Scotty Middleton	Entered	Junior	SF	Tulane
Rowan Brumbaugh	Expected	Senior	PG	Tulane
Evan Chatman	Entered	Junior	PF	UAB
Ari Gooch	Entered	Sophomore	PG	UAB
Quaran McPherson	Expected	RS-Senior	PG	UAB
Tristan Beckford	Entered	Freshman	SF	South Florida
Gavin Hightower	Entered	Freshman	PG	South Florida
Adriel Nyorha	Entered	Freshman	PG	South Florida
C J Brown	Entered	Sophomore	PG	South Florida
Onyx Nnani	Entered	Freshman	C	South Florida
Caleb Sanders	Entered	Freshman	SG	South Florida
De’Ante Green	Entered	Senior	PF	South Florida
Wes Enis	Entered	Junior	PG	South Florida
Xavier Brown	Entered	Senior	SG	South Florida
Kaidon Rayfield	Entered	Freshman	PF	UTSA
Vasean Allette	Entered	Junior	SG	UTSA
Austin Nunez	Expected	Senior	PG	UTSA
Brian Amuneke	Entered	Sophomore	SG	Wichita State
Emmanuel Okorafor	Entered	Senior	C	Wichita State

 

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[dlsnid]

We are going to need another point guard

 

[I.I.]

Bonke is in portal from Charlotte. 7'2" That's the size we need. Not sure if we can match Charlotte's money.

 

[Loca5174]

 

[t-townpod]

Why would he anticipate more NIL dollars than he got at TU when he didn't play to show his worth. Head scratcher for me unless he knows something.

 

[TulsaAM]

I spent quite a bit of cash and emotion the past few week supporting this team. Seeing them walk away is disappointing, disheartening, and not what I signed up for in 1980 when I went to my first TU basketball game. R. I. P. college athletics...

 

[lawpoke87]

Why would he anticipate more NIL dollars than he got at TU when he didn't play to show his worth. Head scratcher for me unless he knows something.

Offers have been made. He knows the floor of what he’s getting

 

[TulsaAM]

Why would he anticipate more NIL dollars than he got at TU when he didn't play to show his worth. Head scratcher for me unless he knows something.

Agents do the talking

 

[I.I.]

Agents do the talking

Agents are lying scum. Lying to 19 and 20 year old kids.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

I've already moved on from the 3 so far that are leaving.

He might have a Green replacement on the radar already, I think he has some equal or better replacements for Riley/Ford., and for Popoola that he is targeting. As far as players on the roster who entered the portal yesterday, they never sounded like they had any real interest in tulsa in their interviews in postgames or love for the program, and/or coach. It was just on to the next opportunity. I was paying attention to this all season long. Never heard anything that made me feel comfortable they would be back.

Konkol did it last year, I have faith he will do it again next year. He has only shown 5 targets, and they look like they are the real deals. I am just focusing on them. I am not going to let the players lack of integrity cause me any grief. I expected Riley to be gone, and Popoola doesn't surprise me. I think it is a low class move by Ford that shows no concept of honoring his commitment , but am confident in Konkol replacing him.

Who's up next is all you've got until they change the rules.

 

[TU_BLA]

I've already moved on from the 3 so far that are leaving.

He might have a Green replacement on the radar already, I think he has some equal or better replacements for Riley/Ford., and for Popoola that he is targeting. As far as players on the roster who entered the portal yesterday, they never sounded like they had any real interest in tulsa in their interviews in postgames or love for the program, and/or coach. It was just on to the next opportunity. I was paying attention to this all season long. Never heard anything that made me feel comfortable they would be back.

Konkol did it last year, I have faith he will do it again next year. He has only shown 5 targets, and they look like they are the real deals. I am just focusing on them. I am not going to let the players lack of integrity cause me any grief. I expected Riley to be gone, and Popoola doesn't surprise me. I think it is a low class move by Ford that shows no concept of honoring his commitment , but am confident in Konkol replacing him.

Who's up next is all you've got until they change the rules.

Wonder how much Ford got paid for this season for not playing a single minute.

 

[TU_BLA]

It's also time to offer 2 year NIL contracts with buy out clauses. Other schools have done it for football and I'm sure some have for basketball. Sign a contract and adhere to the terms. They want to be treated as professionals..well pros have to honor the terms of their contracts

 

[I.I.]

Tough to replace Riley and Popoola. Ford probably not a big loss. If we can keep Behrend and get him another big starter ( not Smikle) then we are okay.

 

[I.I.]

Wonder how much Ford got paid for this season for not playing a single minute.

Too much. Probably got more than Barnstable which is a sin. Plus didn’t have to break a sweat.

 

[lawpoke87]

Tough to replace Riley and Popoola. Ford probably not a big loss. If we can keep Behrend and get him another big starter ( not Smikle) then we are okay.

Why are you now down on Ford? You were really high on him when he signed.

 

[Loca5174]

Why are you now down on Ford? You were really high on him when he signed.

Not sure about I.I., but as far as I see it you can’t miss something you haven’t had. He hasn’t contributed so we haven’t lost something we haven’t had playing for us.

 

[I.I.]

Why are you now down on Ford? You were really high on him when he signed.

About three weeks ago (before anything happened) I went back and watched the complete Arkansas State/ Troy championship basketball game (Rigsby was on Troy). If you do that on YouTube you can make your own decision. When Ford signed I simply looked at the stats and loved his A/TO ratio which was one of the nation's best. I went to the early practices and kept thinking he would outperform but never saw it, it may have been due to the injury starting but he never had the aggressiveness of Riley. You can go back and look at my Riley comments as a 6th man. I actually thought Riley and Rigsby were very similar in the first two practices I saw and but I did see Ade and Miles knocking down a ton of threes! No one saw the emergence of Behrend I don't think until right before the opening game.

 

[Loca5174]

Current Transfer Portal players

The class of the player is from last basketball season. Anyone with a "*" is new to the list. The 15 day window for players to enter the portal started on 4/7/26 and will close on 4/21/26. Only Graduate players are supposed to be able to enter after that. Players can commit to any school outside the portal they just cant enter the portal outside the dates.

Outgoing

Name	Status	Year	Position	Team Leaving	Team going to
Ade Popoola *	Entered	Junior	SG	Tulsa
Tylen Riley	Entered	Junior	PG	Tulsa
Terrance Ford Jr.	Entered	Senior	SG	Tulsa
Spencer Elliott *	Entered	RS-Sophomore	C	Charlotte
Nick Richart	Entered	Junior	C	Charlotte
Anton Bonke	Entered	Junior	C	Charlotte
Corey Caulker	Expected	Sophomore	PG	East Carolina
Tybo Bailey	Expected	Sophomore	SG	East Carolina
Reid Cason	Entered	Sophomore	PF	East Carolina
Devin Williams	Entered	Junior	PF	Florida Atlantic
Jack Johnson	Entered	RS- Junior	CG	Florida Atlantic
Josiah Parker	Entered	Freshman	PF	Florida Atlantic
Devin Vanterpool	Expected	Junior	SG	Florida Atlantic
Isaiah Elohim	Entered	Sophomore	SG	Florida Atlantic
Quante Berry	Entered	Senior	PG	Memphis
Curtis Givens	Expected	Sophomore	PG	Memphis
Ashton Hardaway	Expected	Junior	PF	Memphis
Nick Anderson	Entered	Senior	SG	Rice
Aaron Powell	Entered	Sophomore	PG	Rice
Spencer Mahoney *	Entered	RS-Sophomore	SF	Temple
Aiden Tobiason *	Entered	Sophomore	SG	Temple
Babatunda Durodola *	Entered	Sophomore	PF	Temple
Scotty Middleton	Entered	Junior	SF	Tulane
Rowan Brumbaugh	Expected	Senior	PG	Tulane
Chance Westry *	Expected	Senior	SF	UAB
Evan Chatman	Entered	Junior	PF	UAB
Ari Gooch	Entered	Sophomore	PG	UAB
Quaran McPherson	Expected	RS-Senior	PG	UAB
Tristan Beckford	Entered	Freshman	SF	South Florida
Gavin Hightower	Entered	Freshman	PG	South Florida
Adriel Nyorha	Entered	Freshman	PG	South Florida
C J Brown	Entered	Sophomore	PG	South Florida
Onyx Nnani	Entered	Freshman	C	South Florida
Caleb Sanders	Entered	Freshman	SG	South Florida
De’Ante Green	Entered	Senior	PF	South Florida
Wes Enis	Entered	Junior	PG	South Florida
Xavier Brown	Entered	Senior	SG	South Florida
Kaidon Rayfield	Entered	Freshman	PF	UTSA
Vasean Allette	Entered	Junior	SG	UTSA
Austin Nunez	Expected	Senior	PG	UTSA
Brian Amuneke	Entered	Sophomore	SG	Wichita State
Emmanuel Okorafor	Entered	Senior	C	Wichita State

 

[URedskin54]

If we’re not willing/able to put up big money to keep players from a 30 win team I don’t see much reason for me to spend money, time, or emotional energy on being a fan in this climate

 

[Gmoney4WW]

If we’re not willing/able to put up big money to keep players from a 30 win team I don’t see much reason for me to spend money, time, or emotional energy on being a fan in this climate

You want them to spend 6 or 8 mil (on basketball alone) to keep the stars and the rest of the team, and won't support them otherwise? It doesn't matter that they bring in new stars? We are already stretched thin spending over 2m on basketball nil.

You are feeding the cause of the big conferences if you do that. The rules have to change for us to do any different. The cost is too much and the nil support is not there for a school our size, if the rules aren't changed. That doesn't seem fair that you are essentially are demanding they spend the money that power schools spend or you won't support them. You are handing victory to the P4.

The players go into it with the idea that the entire next season is an audition for power schools.

 

[t-townpod]

You want them to spend 6 or 8 mil (on basketball alone) to keep the stars and the rest of the team, and won't support them otherwise? It doesn't matter that they bring in new stars? We are already stretched thin spending over 2m on basketball nil.

You are feeding the cause of the big conferences if you do that. The rules have to change for us to do any different. The cost is to much and the nil support is not there for a school our size, if the rules aren't changed. That doesn't seem fair that you are essentially are demanding they spend the money that power schools spend or you won't support them. You are handing victory to the P4.

The players go into it with the idea that the entire next season is an audition for power schools.

How are we stretched? Have had some large donations in past 3 years and large endowment compared to other AAC schools. Maybe I'm wrong and you will see Riley, Popola and Ford all reaching upper division P4 schools. I still think Popola and Riley have the best chance to move to the P4 monies but will there NIL value be higher than the top 2 NIL's at TU vs a lower NIL at the P4 school? So many moving parts and no idea where all this lands. On top of that, Trump's EO may push congress to move on legislation. (Otherwise will be caught up in the courts.)

 

[loudmouth]

You want them to spend 6 or 8 mil (on basketball alone) to keep the stars and the rest of the team, and won't support them otherwise? It doesn't matter that they bring in new stars? We are already stretched thin spending over 2m on basketball nil.

You are feeding the cause of the big conferences if you do that. The rules have to change for us to do any different. The cost is to much and the nil support is not there for a school our size, if the rules aren't changed. That doesn't seem fair that you are essentially are demanding they spend the money that power schools spend or you won't support them. You are handing victory to the P4.

The players go into it with the idea that the entire next season is an audition for power schools.

This is accurate

 

[I.I.]

Justin Moore has always said his goal is to provide money to compete with the top of the American Conference so the amount will move with those teams each year. Memphis is hard to top but second in NIL funding is a perfect goal.

 

[drboobay]

Justin Moore has always said his goal is to provide money to compete with the top of the American Conference so the amount will move with those teams each year. Memphis is hard to top but second in NIL funding is a perfect goal.

USF is highest I have heard.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

How are we stretched? Have had some large donations in past 3 years and large endowment compared to other AAC schools. Maybe I'm wrong and you will see Riley, Popola and Ford all reaching upper division P4 schools. I still think Popola and Riley have the best chance to move to the P4 monies but will there NIL value be higher than the top 2 NIL's at TU vs a lower NIL at the P4 school? So many moving parts and no idea where all this lands. On top of that, Trump's EO may push congress to move on legislation. (Otherwise will be caught up in the courts.)

Those endowments are spread out for scholarships for all sports. They are supplements to bring up all of our olympic sports and for equuipment and equipment refurbishment. Those endowments aren't for nil and have nothing to do with the 5 or 7m we are find for nil in football & basketball every year. We are stretched for nil. We may make #3 in the AAC, but that is not competitive enough to compete with P$'s.

 

[cmullinsTU]

D1 Transfer Portal

 

[Gmoney4WW]

How are we stretched? Have had some large donations in past 3 years and large endowment compared to other AAC schools. Maybe I'm wrong and you will see Riley, Popola and Ford all reaching upper division P4 schools. I still think Popola and Riley have the best chance to move to the P4 monies but will there NIL value be higher than the top 2 NIL's at TU vs a lower NIL at the P4 school? So many moving parts and no idea where all this lands. On top of that, Trump's EO may push congress to move on legislation. (Otherwise will be caught up in the courts.)

Too a certain extent you can say that those monies raise all ships, but in many ways you can't use that phrase to say that in a meaningful way.

 

[URedskin54]

You want them to spend 6 or 8 mil (on basketball alone) to keep the stars and the rest of the team, and won't support them otherwise? It doesn't matter that they bring in new stars? We are already stretched thin spending over 2m on basketball nil.

You are feeding the cause of the big conferences if you do that. The rules have to change for us to do any different. The cost is too much and the nil support is not there for a school our size, if the rules aren't changed. That doesn't seem fair that you are essentially are demanding they spend the money that power schools spend or you won't support them. You are handing victory to the P4.

The players go into it with the idea that the entire next season is an audition for power schools.

I’m saying we need to spend as much on basketball NIL(where we get the most ROI) as p4 teams we would like to be as good as, to hold onto 3-4 key players from a 30 win team (not top teams, but teams consistently in the at large discussion). I’m not saying we should be able to keep a guy who gets Michigan money thrown at him.

If we can’t or won’t, it doesn’t make sense for me to invest energy into the fandom. There are better ways I can spend time. I guess we’ll see how it shakes out.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

D1 Transfer Portal

So far us and Wichita St are the only one's at the top of the conference that aren't losing a ton of players.

 

[t-townpod]

Those endowments are spread out for scholarships for all sports. They are supplements to bring up all of our olympic sports and for equuipment and equipment refurbishment. Those endowments aren't for nil and have nothing to do with the 5 or 7m we are find for nil in football & basketball every year. We are stretched for nil. We may make #3 in the AAC, but that is not competitive enough to compete with P$'s.

Sorry, it is all the same basket of money. I understand the large endowment donations going for scholarships which should free up monies previously spent on academic scholarships for other funding.
My real question is not about the ‘Champions Fund’ but about the Loyal Blue fund and how that money is actually spent.is it all for NIL? How is money divided by sport? Can you actually designate the program your actual dollars will be spent?
lots of questions for me.
I know what it was a couple years ago and know things have changed. Just not sure how.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Sorry, it is all the same basket of money. I understand the large endowment donations going for scholarships which should free up monies previously spent on academic scholarships for other funding.
My real question is not about the ‘Champions Fund’ but about the Loyal Blue fund and how that money is actually spent.is it all for NIL? How is money divided by sport? Can you actually designate the program your actual dollars will be spent?
lots of questions for me.
I know what it was a couple years ago and know things have changed. Just not sure how.

It doesn't work exactly work like that. If you can't understand that...

The olympic sports are better funded than before all these changes even happened with nil and unlimited transfers. That doesn't help money sports. Some money is freed up, and that helps football & basketball to a certain extent. But it does not allow us to compete with P4. More people are contributing, more money is available from the endowments being there, and between those two we have the ability to compete with the USF's and Memphis'. It doesn't allow us to compete with the Alabama's or even the Vanderbilt's.

If you can't understand that then I'm at a loss as to how you can understand any of it. We can't fund the money sports properly with the rules as they are, to pay the market cost of a player that has done well with us or any other teams at our level. We have to go find another player who will play for us as an audition, and if they do well, go accept more money. It allows us to buy a new not fully discovered team, not buy us the same team that has a much higher sticker price for next year. We are lucky, because of increased funds to be able to keep the subs that may do better next year. We are also lucky that there is likely honor with one player, that helped him stay despite a nice little raise he could have gotten beyond what we gave him. (Behrend) I'm through talking about this.

 

[t-townpod]

It doesn't work exactly work like that. If you can't understand that...

The olympic sports are better funded than before all these changes even happened with nil and unlimited transfers. That doesn't help money sports. Some money is freed up, and that helps football & basketball to a certain extent. But it does not allow us to compete with P4. More people are contributing, more money is available from the endowments being there, and between those two we have the ability to compete with the USF's and Memphis'. It doesn't allow us to compete with the Alabama's or even the Vanderbilt's.

If you can't understand that then I'm at a loss as to how you can understand any of it. We can't fund the money sports properly with the rules as they are, to pay the market cost of a player that has done well with us or any other teams at our level. We have to go find another player who will play for us as an audition, and if they do well, go accept more money. It allows us to buy a new not fully discovered team, not buy us the same team that has a much higher sticker price for next year. We are lucky, because of increased funds to be able to keep the subs that may do better next year. We are also lucky that there is likely honor with one player, that helped him stay despite a nice little raise he could have gotten beyond what we gave him. (Behrend) I'm through talking about this.

Totally understand. Always have. Of course we can’t compete with P4. However we can compete with other AAC members and should be near the top for Basketball. My concern is where is the money alllocated. In the past, admins looked to distribute donated funds throughout the university with the contributor having no real say where it was allocated. You are not understanding my point. With endowment and recent contributions it should free up more funds for basketball.

 

[I.I.]

Totally understand. Always have. Of course we can’t compete with P4. However we can compete with other AAC members and should be near the top for Basketball. My concern is where is the money alllocated. In the past, admins looked to distribute donated funds throughout the university with the contributor having no real say where it was allocated. You are not understanding my point. With endowment and recent contributions it should free up more funds for basketball.

t-town- I understand you exactly. With the previous AD, money appeared to be shifted away from where we intended it to go. This is not happening since Moore arrived. (This year's results showed that) You still need to write on your check that it is DESIGNATED FOR MEN'S BASKETBALL though to make sure . I usually just give my check to Coach Konkol or the AD to make sure of my intention.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

I’m saying we need to spend as much on basketball NIL(where we get the most ROI) as p4 teams we would like to be as good as, to hold onto 3-4 key players from a 30 win team (not top teams, but teams consistently in the at large discussion). I’m not saying we should be able to keep a guy who gets Michigan money thrown at him.

If we can’t or won’t, it doesn’t make sense for me to invest energy into the fandom. There are better ways I can spend time. I guess we’ll see how it shakes out.

Missed your response yesterday somehow. If you look at the only one that went to the ncaa USF, they lost 9 players. The people we are competing with are losing a lot more than us. They lost every returning star, and a lot of reserves. I don't know how many seniors they have, but that's probably a nearly whole roster reset.

We kept Behrend so far, and he is probably the more costly one to replace imo. I'm thinking we are going to be in pretty decent shape next year to keep Martin, Smikle, & Behrend. I'd say Riley and Popoola will go to some P4 for a lot of money. I don't know about Ford, yet. Will wait to speculate on what pulled him away till I see where he went. He may have got a smaller bump in potential offers, and Konkol was ready to let him go for less monied offers. He might have thought he could get a pg that was as good or better for less money after seeing his playing level with the team last year.

 

[I.I.]

Missed your response yesterday somehow. If you look at the only one that went to the ncaa USF, they lost 9 players. The people we are competing with are losing a lot more than us. They lost every returning star, and a lot of reserves. I don't know how many seniors they have, but that's probably a nearly whole roster reset.

We kept Behrend so far, and he is probably the more costly one to replace imo. I'm thinking we are going to be in pretty decent shape next year to keep Martin, Smikle, & Behrend. I'd say Riley and Popoola will go to some P4 for a lot of money. I don't know about Ford, yet. Will wait to speculate on what pulled him away till I see where he went. He may have got a smaller bump in potential offers, and Konkol was ready to let him go for less monied offers. He might have thought he could get a pg that was as good or better for less money after seeing his playing level with the team last year.

He at least got to evaluate Ford a lot. As a player and as a person........

 

[loudmouth]

Had dinner last night with a friend of John Groce.

Groce left Akron for C of Charlestown recently.

Was purely an NIL decision with Akron spending less than $800k. But, that's not the story. Groce actually had kids leave Akron for as little as $10,000.

My point... the system is beyond broken.

 

[Loca5174]

Smikle to the portal

 

[loudmouth]

Starting over essentially every year is killing college BB

What a cluster

Tulsa will need an entirely new frontcourt w Behrend gone