So the portal hath closed and what the portal hath taken away it also giveth back.
Here are some numbers:
The portal wasn't as hard on Big Sky Conference schools as some other conferences (WAC was absolutely decimated by the portal), but there are some teams who lost a lot of minutes, a lot points to the portal.
Most Minutes Lost to the Portal:
The graphic sort of quantifies below which teams benefited the most from the portal:
The only issue is that only cover D1 transfers and there are a few omissions here and there. This is the data table: SBU Unfurled You can sort the table by conference, but in terms of Net here is how the conference stood:
Big Sky Net Ranking: (D1 Rank), School, OVR, Net G/L
1. Miguel Tomley- Weber State (Idaho State)
2. Jensen Bradtke- Montana (Saint Mary's)
3. Jack Payne-Idaho (Colorado State) - The site absolutely loves this add.
4. Taeshaud Jackson Jr.- Northern Colorado (VMI)
5. Quenten Meza- Idaho State (Wofford)
Honorable Mention: Kai Johnson (Montana (WWU), Quinn Denker (UNC (Idaho), Nigel Burris (WSU (USU), Jabe Mullins (Montana State (Wazzu), Isaiah Brickner (Idaho (Marist).
I think schools are getting much better at recruiting the portal. Northern Colorado has owned it the past few years but other teams are catching up fast. The most adept additions to their squad probably falls to Weber State, followed by Montana and Northern Colorado. Idaho might have got the highest celiing guys in the portal (MItchell, Payne) but has a long way to go. Montana absolutely needed to win the portal considering they needed to replace so many non-portal minutes that left the program this year. Idaho State and Eastern Washington have a ton of work to do before the spring signing period closes. A LOT OF WORK. Right now things aren't looking that great. They need to get some more guys through the door.
Way too early conference rankings:
Here are some numbers:
- 45: Total Number of Days Open
- 2,018: Total Number of players who submitted their name to the portal.
- 1,050: The number of those players who have found a new home.
- 34 : The number of teams who had 10+ players put their name into the portal
- Arizona State (10), Arkansas (10), Canisius (10), Central Michigan (11), Chicago State (10), DePaul (12), Drake (12), Eastern Michigan (10), Florida State (10), Hampton (10), Houston Christian (10), IUPUI (12), Idaho State (11), Indiana State (10), Iona (10), Kansas City (10), Louisville (13), Maryland Eastern Shore (13), Mercer (10), Northwestern State (11), Rhode Island (10), Rice (10), St. Louis (11), Sienna (11), Southern Illinois (10), Stetson (10), Tarleton State (11), Texas Rio Grande Valley (12), University of Illinois-Chicago (12), UT-Martin (10), UT-San Antonio (13), Utah State (12), Washington State (12), Xavier (10)
- 10: The number of schools who have replaced half of their scholarship roster through the portal:
- California (7), DePaul (10), Hampton (7), Kentucky (7), Louisville (10), Memphis (7), Rice (7), USC (10), Utah State (7), Vanderbilt (7)
- 35: The number of Big Sky Conference Players who put their name into the portal.
- 12: The number of Big Sky Conference Players who have found a new home at the D1 level.
- 4: The number of Big Sky Conference players who transferred to another school in the conference.
- Miguel Tomley: Idaho State to Weber State
- Austin Patterson: Sacramento State to Montana
- Quinn Denker: Idaho to Northern Colorado
- Kolton Mitchell: Idaho State to Idaho
The portal wasn't as hard on Big Sky Conference schools as some other conferences (WAC was absolutely decimated by the portal), but there are some teams who lost a lot of minutes, a lot points to the portal.
Most Minutes Lost to the Portal:
- Idaho State: 5,336 Minutes (78% of their minutes)
- Eastern Washington: 4,064 Minutes (65% of their minutes)
- Northern Colorado: 2,338 Minutes (36% of their minutes)
- Idaho: 2,144 Minutes (34% of their minutes)
- Sacramento State: 1,721 Minutes
- Montana State: 1,144 Minutes
- Montana: 868 Minutes
- Portland State: 600 Minutes
- Weber State: 462 Minutes
- Northern Arizona: 118 Minutes
- Eastern Washington: 1,947 points (60.8ppg, 75%)
- Idaho State: 1,750 points (51.5ppg, 73%)
- Northern Colorado: 1,127 points (35.2 ppg, 43%)
- Idaho: 778 points (24.3ppg, 35.8%)
- Sacramento State: 673 points (19.8ppg, 29%)
- Montana State: 301 points (9.4ppg, 11%)
- Montana: 208 points (5.8ppg, 7.5%)
- Portland State: 196 points (4.0ppg, 5.5%)
- Weber State: 113 points (3.6ppg, 4.5%)
- Northern Arizona: 18 points (.56ppg, .8%)
The graphic sort of quantifies below which teams benefited the most from the portal:
The only issue is that only cover D1 transfers and there are a few omissions here and there. This is the data table: SBU Unfurled You can sort the table by conference, but in terms of Net here is how the conference stood:
Big Sky Net Ranking: (D1 Rank), School, OVR, Net G/L
- (30) Idaho: 6.4 (-100.2)
- (41) Montana: 3.4 (83.8)
- (73) Weber State: -.9 (-1.6)
- (74) Portland State: -1.2 (-38.6)
- (76) Northern Arizona: -1.3 (-8.9)
- (95) Montana State: -3.4 (-64.7)
- (202) Northern Colorado: -11.5 (-11.7)
- (226) Sacramento State: -13.0 (-154.5)
- (334) Idaho State: -29.2 (-342.3)
- (351) Eastern Washington: -30.4 (-320.2)
1. Miguel Tomley- Weber State (Idaho State)
2. Jensen Bradtke- Montana (Saint Mary's)
3. Jack Payne-Idaho (Colorado State) - The site absolutely loves this add.
4. Taeshaud Jackson Jr.- Northern Colorado (VMI)
5. Quenten Meza- Idaho State (Wofford)
Honorable Mention: Kai Johnson (Montana (WWU), Quinn Denker (UNC (Idaho), Nigel Burris (WSU (USU), Jabe Mullins (Montana State (Wazzu), Isaiah Brickner (Idaho (Marist).
I think schools are getting much better at recruiting the portal. Northern Colorado has owned it the past few years but other teams are catching up fast. The most adept additions to their squad probably falls to Weber State, followed by Montana and Northern Colorado. Idaho might have got the highest celiing guys in the portal (MItchell, Payne) but has a long way to go. Montana absolutely needed to win the portal considering they needed to replace so many non-portal minutes that left the program this year. Idaho State and Eastern Washington have a ton of work to do before the spring signing period closes. A LOT OF WORK. Right now things aren't looking that great. They need to get some more guys through the door.
Way too early conference rankings:
- Weber State
- Montana
- Montana State
- Idaho
- Portland State
- Northern Colorado
- Sacramento State
- Northern Arizona
- Idaho State
- Eastern Washington