GCU center Duke Brennan has entered the transfer portal

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GCU basketball coach Bryce Drew thanks players after WAC title win

Grand Canyon men’s basketball coach Bryce Drew praised his players after the Lopes’ 2025 WAC Tournament championship win over Utah Valley.

Grand Canyon basketball coach Bryce Drew will have to rebuild his roster through the portal after leading the Lopes to four NCAA Tournaments in five years.

His 26-8 team that lost to Maryland in the first round was a veteran group with top players JaKobe Coles, Tyon Grant-Foster, Collin Moore and Lok Wur all running out of college eligibility. Center Duke Brennan, a 6-foot-10 junior, is the only starter who has eligibility remaining, but, according to reports, has entered the transfer portal.

GCU loses its top four scorers if Brennan doesn’t opt to return. He averaged 10.4 points and led the team with 9.2 rebounds.

Guard Makaih Williams averaged 8.2 points and guard Caleb Shaw 6.1 points. Those could be the two biggest players returning to the Lopes, if they don’t take the portal route. Williams transferred in last year from UT Arlington, and Shaw two years ago from Northern Colorado.

Three true freshmen, led by 6-foot-2 guard Styles Phipps, entered the portal last week. Phipps has indicated he is keeping his options open with a chance of returning to GCU.

Other freshmen in the portal are 7-foot center Austin Mauer and 6-8, 240-pound power forward Sammie Yeanay.

Mauer, who was the Gatorade Oregon High School Player of the Year in his senior year, played in only 20 games, and scant minutes at that. Yeanay, a four-star recruit from AZ Compass Prep, played in only five games.

Phipps, a two-time Arizona Republic All-Arizona selection at Phoenix St. Mary’s, who missed part of this season with a hand injury, played in 20 games, averaging 7.9 minutes, 2.1 points and one assist.

This is the biggest rebuild job for Drew since taking over the program after the 2020 season.

Forward Traivar Jackson, who was going to redshirt this season, ended up playing in 11 games after the NCAA Division I…

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Publish date : 2025-03-31 23:14:00

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