It’s been a wildly successful spring for Mike Woodson and the Indiana coaching staff in the transfer portal.
The Hoosiers landed commitments and signed Myles Rice, Kanaan Carlyle, Oumar Ballo and Luke Goode. Indiana is also viewed as the favorite to land Langdon Hatton, which would help solidify the roster’s frontcourt depth.
While transfer portal class recruiting rankings aren’t as widely available as high school recruiting class rankings, more outlets have started to publish them as the portal becomes more prominent.
Here’s a look at how Indiana’s transfer portal recruiting class stacks up nationally and in the Big Ten:
247Sports
Indiana transfer portal class rank: No. 2
Player rankings: Ballo (No. 2), Carlyle (No. 18), Rice (No. 27), Goode (No. 136)
Notes: With 33.30 points, Indiana trails only Arkansas (33.46 points) in the 247Sports transfer team rankings. The top five teams are Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, St. John’s and West Virginia.
Rankings for other Big Ten programs:
Michigan (No. 8) – 6 commits
UCLA (No. 9) – 6 commits
Ohio State (No. 13) – 4 commits
Illinois (No. 14) – 5 commits
USC (No. 16) – 9 commits
Oregon (No. 21) – 3 commits
Maryland (No. 25) – 4 commits
Penn State (No. 36) – 4 commits
Wisconsin (No. 39) – 3 commits
Nebraska (No. 48) – 5 commits
Washington (No. 52) – 3 commits
Rutgers (No. 58) – 3 commits
Minnesota (No. 70) – 5 commits
Michigan State (No. 86) – 1 commit
Northwestern (No. 113) – 2 commits
Iowa (No. 137) – 1 commit
Purdue (Not ranked) – Zero commits
On3
Indiana transfer portal class rank: No. 4
Player rankings: Ballo (No. 1), Carlyle (No. 13), Rice (No. 36), Goode (No. 237)
Notes: With an index score of 23, Indiana trails Louisville (31), West Virginia (31) and UCLA (27) in the On3 transfer team rankings. The top five teams are Louisville, West Virginia, UCLA, Indiana and Georgia.
These rankings are a bit different than a typical team ranking as On3 attempts to “measure a team’s production during the transfer process, compared relative against its roster and not a comparison against other schools. This proprietary algorithm determines if a school has improved its overall team talent, stayed the same, or declined in talent during the transfer window.”
In other words, On3 is trying to measure team improvement in the portal window.
Rankings for other Big Ten programs:
UCLA (No. 3) – 6 commits
Michigan (No. 6) – 6 commits
Nebraska (No. 9) – 5 commits
Oregon (No. 20)…