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Thanks to the transfer portal, this March’s Cinderella stories are players, not teams

To find Cinderella stories in the finals of these four men, you have to look at the name in the back of the shirt instead of the front.

For the second time in the history of the Predions of the modern NCAA championship, all four seeds advanced to the national semi -finals. It will be the number 1 Florida for the number 1 Oborn and the number 1 Houston against the Duke No. 1 on Saturday in the national semi -finals, which is an ideal end for Most of the madness of the chalk march. Only one seed reached Sweet 16, and all the teams in the regional semi -finals of Power 4 conferences were.

Where did you go, Lewla Chicago and Sister Jean? Check the transfer portal.

Two of the best players who compete for a championship this weekend in San Antonio – Walter Clayton Junior from Florida and Johnny Brom from Oporne – may not be in their place today if not this new global world sport, with unlimited photo and information transfers and names.

Clayton is the former high school football star Florida Which was led by basketball passion for New Roshil, New York, a hidden jewel revealed by Rick Betino during his time in Iyuna. Perhaps you did not even notice that Clayton scored 15 points for Gaels against the national champion ultimately in the first round of the NCAA 2023 championship.

Now, it is Compare it with Steve Curry.

“It is clear that it is a blessing in our program, in our team,” said Florida coach Todd Golden. “He is an incredible player, but outside that, he is a great captain. It has been all that we could ask him to be on this program since he reached the campus two years ago.”

Boom, another fluoride, was the possibility of 471 classification in the recruitment category in the 247SPORTS compound categories, and not good enough to get an offer from Florida Atlantic. To be fair, former FAU coach Dusty May assembled a good enough team to reach final finals two years ago without BROM, so it is not good enough for this album not slight.

Instead, Boom fell in the state Before becoming the best player in the Supreme Education Council In his third year in Oporne.

He said: “He screams at the mandate of Mohid.” “I think these two years of my university career helped me become who I am.”

We are not completely ready to announce that the NCAA Championship has died. Trends against Mid-MAJORS- specifically, the comfortable transportation rules that convert each player in the country into a free agent every year.

For years, Draconian transportation has given a lot of strength to schools and trainers. University basketball players did not have to sit in a season after the transition-an unbeatable condition for non-employees-but schools could prevent athletes from going to certain schools, just because of.

He was shameful of the border. Even Mark Emert, former NCAA president who was not fully known to go out in front of possible problems, knew that change was required.

“How complicated is this?” Emert said in the last four years in San Antonio in 2018.

Even at the time, before the gate was an applicable option for each player from Superstar to walking, the transfers were in high university basketball, with increasing cases of 10 percent of the first section players in 2010 to about 13 percent in 2016.

Villanova, who won the NCAA championship in 2018, began striker Eric Bashal, a transfer from Fordham. Certainly, Rams fans were asking what could have been when they saw Paschalle scored 24 points in the semi -finals against Kansas.

Villanova, Kansas, Michigan and sister Jane Liola Chicago, all began at least one transfer in the fourth final of that season. There were a total of nine on those lists, including the players who were sitting to comply with the NCAA rules at the time.

Wolverines has reached the title game with the help of Division III Transfer Duncan Robinson.

According to the latest NCAA numbers, more than 1,200 basketball players who were transferred after the 2022-23 season. Usually, there are about 4,200 athletes a scholarship playing basketball for men.

The four final teams of this year have 20 academic transfer operations from other NCAA schools in their lists, led by Oporn with seven. Florida has six, has five Dukes and Houston has two, both of them from Big 12. Coupars LJ Cryer star ranked fourth for the second time after he became part of the 2021 Baylor team as a new student.

Florida, Obern and Duke are all all at least one start played once in the middle of the wound.

For Duke, this goalkeeper Sion James, a former three -star recruiter from Sugar Hill, GA. He played four seasons in TULANE before benefiting from the additional year from the eligibility that all athletes received in the wake of the epidemic to become a glorious man for one of the most amazing and prestigious programs in the country.

“I played a lot of university basketball games, but nothing in the tournament, and I knew we had an opportunity to win a national championship,” James said. “It is great to be here, but after several months, just a few games.”

The pendulum plays strongly towards empowering the player when it comes to transferring the rules. It is fair to say that we may be very creamy. The apostasy may not be all over the country and its average around a school in each season is perfect for players who have the minimum prospects of professionals who will benefit from graduation from … somewhere.

Bordeaux coach Matt Pinter explained, an interesting point early in the tournament between the opportunity to obtain a certificate in realizing that for some players, the college will be the last opportunity they get to earn money for basketball.

“I don’t think this is bad (something) … like, why not?” He said.

It should be noted that the Painter 2024-25 team did not have any transfers, but the former Boilerker Mason Gillis returned to the final with Duke.

Will Wadi, who took over the training function in North Carolina after Macins’s leadership in the past in one of Clemeson in one of the few real turmoil in this tournament, talked about selling his program in the middle of the gyour as a place for players to develop them in conference transfers. More and more parts in the middle of the award, recruit this way, and resigned from the fact that they, yes, they are already farm teams for large schools.

Perhaps with a system of sharing revenue to the college sports, along with players ’contracts and something that repeats the maximum salary for monochromatic schools that choose the system, the low -extending overfishing will slow down. Maybe not.

This is not great news for Cinderella future in March, but only last year, Oakland Weel, Grand Canyon, James Madison and Duquesne won the first round games as seeds of two numbers. Then again, Morehead State made the championship last year, after two seasons after he left Boom, and lost in the first round as 14 seeds to Illinois. Imagine what this team could have been with Brom.

We are also just two years away from Fau Final Four Run. One of these players, Ali Martin, returned in the fourth match with Florida. Others, from Michigan Vladislav Golden to Arkansas Gonel Davis, came a victory or two away from their own return.

Then there is Channel Johnson, who played three basketball seasons in the second division in Alabama Huntville before becoming a major reserve for Oborne.

Fans may deport the temporary nature of the university basketball, as mercenary players arrived quickly and go, but this is the second season of Clayton in Florida. Boom was in Oborn for three years, and it may not be by chance that the tigers only added three transfers in this season to rotation with many of the multiple warriors.

Thanks to NIL, Auburn Broome’s fans watched and this player develops from the players to be able to reduce the net on the way to the fourth final.

“O man, you cannot describe it,” said Brom. “To stand on the ladder in front of all Oborn fans who are still there, travel and see it as well, and look down and see my teammates, the entire Oborn family, this means only the world for me. To be able to connect the Oborn family.”

They all lived permanently.

(Clarification: Will Toulos / Athlete; Photo: Andy Leon, Alex Slitz / Getty Becus)

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