Fresh off one of the most improbable NCAA Tournament runs in recent memory, St. Peter’s star Doug Edert has reportedly entered the transfer portal along with teammates Matthew Lee and leading scorer Darryl Banks. Some have already speculated Edert could be headed to Seton Hall (10 miles west of St. Peter’s Jersey City campus) to reunite with coach Shaheen Holloway, who was hired by his alma mater last week.
Edert averaged 11.3 points throughout the Peacocks’ Cinderella run, becoming the first 15-seed to advance to the Elite Eight. The junior guard from Essex County helped slay goliath with a herculean performance in St. Peter’s opening-round upset of Kentucky (led by Naismith Player of the Year Oscar Tshiebwe), forcing overtime with a game-tying bucket in the final seconds of regulation. Edert scored five more in the extra period, finishing with 20 points for the game on efficient 5-of-7 shooting (2-of-2 from downtown).
St. Peter’s underdog story would ultimately end with a loss to North Carolina, but not before outslugging Kentucky, Murray State and Purdue en route to the East Regional Finals in Philadelphia. The MAAC champs had never won a tournament game before this season, losing in each of their previous NCAA appearances (1991, 1995 and 2011).
Introduced in 2018, the transfer portal has dramatically changed the landscape of college basketball, acting as a form of free agency with student athletes leaving schools en mass for better opportunities elsewhere. This year’s tournament was littered with transfers from North Carolina forward Brady Manek (formerly of Oklahoma) to Miami’s Charlie Moore, a sixth-year senior playing for his fourth school (Cal-Berkeley, Kansas and DePaul were his other stops) in five seasons. The transfer portal has had a similar impact on college football with many of the top prospects in this year’s draft (Malik Willis, Jameson Williams and Kenneth Walker, to name a few) beginning their careers at other universities.
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