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College basketball transfer portal 2023: Florida's Kowacie Reeves hears from Indiana, Virginia Tech – 247Sports
The college basketball transfer portal is heating up as more and more teams see their 2022-23 seasons come to an end. Ex-Florida guard Kowacie Reeves is one of the higher-rated players already on the market and recently has heard from two more high-major programs that have interest in adding him to the fold: Indiana and Virginia Tech, according to Travis Branham.
Branham previously reported that Boston College secured an in-home visit with Reeves set for Tuesday. Reeves rates as a four-star transfer, according to 247Sports’ evaluators after he likewise rated as a four-star recruit out of Macon (Ga.) Westside in the 2021 class. In 19.3 minutes per game this season for Florida as a top option off the bench for first-year head coach Todd Golden, Reeves averaged 8.5 points per game and 2.6 rebounds on 37.7% shooting from the field.
Listed at 6-foot-6 and 190 pounds, Reeves can play multiple positions on the perimeter. Reeves initially committed to former Florida head coach Mike White and played for White as a freshman in 2021-22 before White left for Georgia. Earlier, Branham reported that Reeves is receiving interest from Stanford, Arkansas, Maryland, Clemson, Cincinnati, Boston College, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Iowa State, Ole Miss, NC State, Louisville, Dayton, Kansas, Georgia State, Tulane, Georgia Southern and Appalachian State.
Reeves should draw serious looks from myriad high-major programs, as he has two seasons of eligibility remaining. In addition, Reeves’ 72.4% career mark from the free-throw line suggests that he could become a good 3-point shooter in time; he shot 33.3% as a freshman on over three attempts per game.
Indiana will need to replace a lot of production as head coach Mike Woodson looks to move forward; star senior big man Trayce Jackson-Davis, and perhaps freshman point guard Jalen Hood-Schifino, could move onto the NBA. Virginia Tech hopes to bounce back from a disappointing season that ended in the NIT, snapping head coach Mike Young’s streak of two straight appearances in the Big Dance.
In the first year of the portal windows, the college basketball transfer portal begins March 13 and runs until May 11.
Numerous graduate transfers already entered the transfer portal prior to the March 13 opening, but that date kicked off the 60-day window for the rest of the prospective transfers to hop in the portal to examine their options. The one-time transfer rule is still intact, per usual. If a player has not transferred yet, they are immediately eligible.
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Name, image and likeness is going to be a factor in the transfer portal. It is no coincidence that some of the teams who continue to dominate the transfer portal also have structured NIL opportunities set up.
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