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After one of the most hectic multi-week stretches the sport has ever seen, the college basketball transfer portal is finally closed and commitments are slowing down.
Many teams – like the Badgers, who have just one more spot to fill on their 2026-27 roster – have largely finished building their squads for next season.
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As such, early reviews of transfer portal hauls are beginning to trickle in from national outlets. The Field of 68’s Rob Dauster recently included Wisconsin as one of his transfer portal “losers” this offseason, also featuring “The Blue Bloods” (Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas), St. John’s, LSU and San Diego State.
“If you are Wisconsin and you are losing the likes of John Blackwell to the portal, that’s an incredibly big void you need to fill,” he said on the outlet’s podcast. “It is very, very difficult to replace a guy, I mean, John Blackwell might be a first-team All American.”
Now, nothing Dauster said about the Badgers losing John Blackwell is incorrect. He does leave an incredibly big void to fill, and he is incredibly difficult to replace. But the notion that Wisconsin losing Blackwell to the portal makes them a “loser” in the offseason portal cycle is laughable. It’s a ridiculously narrow-minded take on something that should be viewed holistically.
Blackwell was widely expected to leave
Former Wisconsin Badgers guard John Blackwell. | Ron Johnson-Imagn Images
Does that soften the blow of his departure? No, not really. But let’s be honest about where Wisconsin stands in the hierarchy of college basketball teams. It’s a highly consistent and well-respected program, but it’s not considered a Blue Blood. It’s not considered one of the nation’s elite. It’s not given a chance to win a national title year after year like many other big-time programs.
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Blackwell was universally considered to be a top-five portal prospect. Duke, where Blackwell transferred to, is universally considered to be in a higher tier than Wisconsin. Not only that,…
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