Impact of the transfer portal on NCAA Tournament's top players
Yahoo Sports’ Krysten Peek explains how the transfer portal has shaped some of the NCAA Tournament's biggest stars this year.
Video Transcript
KRYSTEN PEEK: This is Krysten Peek at Yahoo Sports, here at the Final Four and the transfer portal has really helped shape the Final Four teams here that are playing this weekend. We caught up with some of the star players of the tournament and how the portal has shaped their collegiate career.
DJ HORNE: I would say it's just allowed me to just keep getting better in my game and growing in my game. Jumping from the MVC and going to the Pac 12, obviously, I would say, it's a better competition and everything. You just got to be smart about it. You can't abuse the transfer portal. If a situation is really not right for a kid, it is good, but it also can be bad.
GRANT NELSON: It's impacted my development in many ways. In good ways, really. I think this whole starting five, really, besides Rylan, we've all kind of taken steps from where we came from and we've learned these new roles from being the best players on our team to now trying to fit a role and like just do whatever we can to help the team win. But I mean, for my personal development, I've learned so much. I learned a ton of terminology from the mid-major level to now, just because the coaches come from the NBA or could coach in the NBA really so I mean, I've learned a ton.
LANCE JONES: Being a mid-major player, this is something that I've always wanted to be a part of, high major program that has a chance to win a national title. But as a player, you always have self-doubt. And you know, I wasn't really highly recruited out of high school. So it was thoughts going through my mind like maybe I wasn't good enough or anything like that. And for Coach Payne from that program and, you know, that Coach have to take a chance on me, it just means a lot. And you know, I feel like I took my chance and I ran with it.
