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Georiga Basketball and Roster Construction in The Transfer Portal Era

The Georgia Bulldogs got some big basketball news yesterday when guard Noah Thomasson committed to play for them in the coming season. The guy is a straight up bucket, averaging 19.5 points per game last season while shooting 38.6% from three. He's a high quality scorer and will slot right into their starting lineup for 2023-24. However, this also comes right on the heels of Blue Cain, a four star shooting guard in the class of 2023, committing to the Bulldogs last week. It brings up a larger question about roster building in the transfer portal era that I wanted to briefly dive into here. For most of the 2010s, the ideal roster building strategy at the highest level of college basketball was to load up on 5 star talent and hope that you had the guys who would acclimate the quickest. John Calipari's Kentucky teams early in the decade set the standard, stockpiling 5 stars en route to a national championship and three additional trip to the Final Four between 2011 and 2015. They ...