The latest domino falls for Wichita State basketball: Craig Porter to transfer portal
Another large domino fell on Friday in what has been a gutting week for the Wichita State men’s basketball team when Craig Porter entered the transfer portal.
It concluded a 48-hour span where the Shockers lost their leading scorer (Tyson Etienne), their budding superstar (Ricky Council IV) and now their starting point guard in Porter.
A total of eight scholarship players have entered the NCAA transfer portal since the end of Wichita State’s 15-13 campaign. Coupled with the early departure of Etienne for professional basketball, WSU only has one player (Kenny Pohto) returning who played last season, losing 92% of its production.
Porter’s departure was not a coincidence following Thursday’s news that Council entered the transfer portal, as the Shockers lost their most talented scorer who would have been the go-to player for this upcoming season.
Internally, Wichita State believes it can still retool through the transfer portal. But with only one season of college basketball eligibility remaining, Porter didn’t want to take the chance of playing on a team pulling off a nearly total reload for this upcoming season.
After averaging 7.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.6 assists, Porter should be a target for high-level teams in the market for point guard help. Porter played his best basketball in the final two months of the season, notably scoring 17 points against conference champion Houston in WSU’s double-overtime loss to the Cougars at Koch Arena on Feb. 20.
Porter joins fellow starters in Dexter Dennis, Joe Pleasant and Morris Udeze in the transfer portal, as well as Council, Qua Grant, Monzy Jackson and Chaunce Jenkins. The only scholarship players who are returning from WSU last season are Kenny Pohto, Jalen Ricks and Isaac Abidde.
This story was originally published April 22, 2022 at 2:59 PM.
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