Arman Jovic

@CBB_Central Well deserved congrats man!

Honored and humbled to be this year's USBWA Rising Star! So many people in this business were far kinder to me than they needed to be when I was just a college kid blogging about hoops. The college basketball community is special!

Absolute cinematic past 30 minutes of hoops. What a game and win by High Point

@KammH_ We need some twitter hoop runs to materialize

Yep I’ve never touched a ball in my life and I never watch games

@VerbalCommits @ThePortalReport

Idaho State’s Gus Etchison will enter the transfer portal, he tells me. The 5-10 guard is an elite shot maker, with high level athleticism, speed and explosiveness. Averaged, 8.8 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 2.2 APG in just 13 MPG this season. Etchison became the first player in the history of Idaho State Bengals men's basketball to earn the Lou Henson award for national mid major player of the Week honors, after averaging 32.5 PPG vs Montana/Montana State. Etchison was a prolific scorer at Marian averaging 23 PPG, A medical hardship waiver is pending after he appeared in 11 games before facing a season ending injury as a sophomore. (@GusEtchison)

Over the last month stretch Etchison was putting up historic offensive production in just 21.3 MPG, it's very hard to get to a 12 OPBM on the 250th best team in D1, but when he was playing big minutes it felt they could compete with anyone I've watched Etchison play for a while now, I feel fairly confident he could be an all conference player at a MM somewhere.

Huntington's 6'11 Kaden Johnson is transferring, he will be looking for the opportunity to play at the D1 level for his final year of eligibility. Johnson a 6-11, 200 pound RS Junior, averaged: 17.2 PPG 11.6 RPG 2.6 APG on 63.6% FG on the season Extremely skilled, smart, versatile and fluid. Johnson offers a fun blend of post-play and playmaking that could scale up at any level. One of the top non D1 prospects in the market. (@Kaden_Johnson24)

Really have enjoyed Davide Casarin's progression this past season taking a bigger role for Vanoli Cremona The 22-year old Italian native is averaging 11.8 PPG, 3.9 RPG and 5.1 APG on 50% shooting this season. Strong sturdy frame as a 6-6 PG, a very experienced prospect looking at to go college. He’s a fantastic passer, strong body, loves to attack downhill, use his body to create openings, he’s not a great shooter but does damn near everything else at a respectable/good level.

Yeah he was full on forward, had to hybrid as a 5, plus came to the season late so missed a needed adjustment period. While what he was in Europe was still pretty bad... on offense. He had completely changed his offensive processing, a good chuck of his possessions last season were actually jumpers, struggled at it. But man is it hard to re-adjust what you've been taught for 3 years in a short period. His on-ball defense was unreal, great tools, instincts, motor. You can work with him, it does feel like from afar, he's struggled to adjust, game's moving too fast for him at the 5 spot. Would be better at the 4, but the shot would have to develop into something. No clue how much years he got, but could easily develop into a productive college player.

@Hoops_GE Defense is very real. Offense is better than he gets credit for. He’s playing out of position. Go look at his Europe tape.

Really unsure about Ebube minutes over Sagnia. I get there’s a size issue but he brings virtually nothing.

@tobias_bass @Ani_Umana @JUCOadvocate @CoachGeorge4 @DanielPoneman @ThePortalReport Really good player

Davide Casarin, one of Italy’s top prospects, is now exploring college options. The 6’6 guard averaged 11.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 4.8 assists for Vanoli Cremona in Serie A, Italy’s top pro league. The versatile young playmaker plays for Italy’s senior Mens national team. He is drawing heavy high-major interest, likely has 2 to play. He’ll be represented by @WEAVE for NIL. youtu.be/ayRsi33tyXo

La Salle Junior guard Eric Acker will enter the transfer portal, he tells me The 6-2 Junior from New York played a key role off the bench this season for La Salle, averaging 6 PPG, averaged 13.4 PPG/3.8 APG as a freshman at LIU. (@_iameric2)

La Salle freshman forward Nas Hart, will enter the transfer portal, he tells me The 6-10 freshman from Trenton, NJ played sparingly this season, has strong tools, including a 7+ wingspan (@Trey5Nas)

Belmont's 6'9 sophomore Drew Scharnowski has announced that he'll be entering the transfer. One of my favorite MM prospects in the nation, has developed a lot since arriving to Nashville, becoming an physical enforcer in the MVC. Drew's was awesome for Belmont averaging 10.7 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 2.6 APG, 0.8 SPG, 1.3 BPG while shooting 68% from the field. Has great touch around the rim, can move really well, long arms, bouncy, can defend in space, strong playmaker, lots of upside

Cal Baptist’s 5’10 Dominque Daniels Jr has had a fun offensive input during his senior year, having the ultimate greenlight. He’s averaging 23.2 PPG, 3.7 RPG and 3.3 APG while shooting 44% from the field in 35 MPG. He’s got a clear case to be the most explosive guard in the NCAA tournament this week. Led Cal Baptist to their first march madness ever, averaging 32 PPG during the WAC tournament. Daniels has a wickedly fast first step, can split gaps just like that, absurdly fast in transition and his 44 inch vertical has allowed him to have 7+ dunks in his 3 years at just 5'10. Love his loyalty, staying committed to a program that believed in him out of JUCO. A must watch vs Kansas on Friday night.

Tyler had a interesting route to getting where he's at now. Started at TCU as a walk-on for two seasons before transferring to Belmont. Started his Belmont career a bit slow before exploding as the year ended, then had a stellar senior season this year. Ranks among the very best shooters this decade, Belmont drew nearly 80 off screen actions to generate Lundblade movement looks this past season, shooting 45.4% on off-screen 3's. Really like his game, think he scales up well despite some clear defensive concerns.

Tyler Lundblade will without a doubt be one of the premier shooters in the Portal Makes a case of being the best, even without knowing who else would be in the portal Tyler averaged 15.7 PPG, 2.7 RPG, 1.8 APG on 43/41/93 splits. Shot 48% from 3 last season on 6.5 attempts and jumped up to 9 attempts this season. Hard to find better specialists than Tyler in the sport.

@LoganPAdams Unbelievable talent

Leroy Blyden will be the best guard out of the MAC since Mark Sears.

@JknowsBBall Ole Miss vs Bama, isn’t a great defensive game but pretty nuts as well.

@PDTScouting Nuts game

What an unbelievable shot by Jaden Bradley