ACC Rosters As Best We Can Tell In Late May

With the portal transfer closing some time ago and NBA Draft decision day now having passed, we have a much better idea of what ACC rosters will look like next year. Over at ESPN, Jeff Borzello breaks it down. We assume you know how Duke will look, but if not, here you go:

• Tyrese Proctor
• Caleb Foster
• Cooper Flagg
• Khaman Maluach
• Isaiah Evans
• Kon Knueppel
• Patrick Ngongba
• Darren Harris
• Sion James (Tulane)
• Maliq Brown (Syracuse)
• Mason Gillis (Purdue)
• Cameron Sheffield (Rice)

We’ve covered Duke’s comings and goings extensively and will do a lot more over the next few months. Today, let’s look at the rest of the ACC and see what we can gather.

The first thing that’s obvious is that roster flux is hitting just about everyone. UNC, State and Notre Dame did better than most, but heavy rebuilds are now the norm. Duke of course had just two players return. So did Florida State. Georgia Tech and Georgia Tech had four. Miami had three. Louisville had none. However, six of their deportees (that’s an autocorrect but it works, so what the hey) remain in the ACC, and seven if you count Jae’Lyn Withers, who got out early).

There are a number of other intra-conference transfers as well, notably TJ Power, Jaden Schutt and Christian Reeves, all from Duke, who ended up at Virginia, Virginia Tech and Clemson, respectively.

Josh Beadle left Clemson for BC, Jaeden Zachery left BC for Clemson, Lynn Kidd left Virginia Tech for Miami, Cam Corhen left Florida State for Pitt, Jaylen Warley left FSU for Virginia, Maliq Brown left Syracuse for Duke and Kevin Miller left Wake Forest for SMU.

In some interesting bank shots, former Tar Heel Dontrez Styles is now at NC State, which should go over well, Matt Cross who played for Miami and Louisville, is now at SMU and Ven-Allen Rubin, who left Notre Dame for Vanderbilt, is now a Tar Heel.

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There are at least three interesting legacies. Dikembe Mutombo’s son, Ryan, also 7-2, is at Georgia Tech, as is Jaylen Forest, son of James. Ace Buckner, son of Clemson legend Greg Buckner, is now a Tiger too, while Cade Tyson, whose brother Hunter recently starred at Clemson, leaves Belmont after one year for UNC. And finally, there is Georgia Tech’s Jaeden Mustaf, son of former Maryland star Jerrod Mustaf, who, it’s fair to say, has a controversial past.

It’s enough to give you whiplash and it’s fair to wonder if fans are disoriented by the rapid movements. On the other hand, you get a chance to do a more or less instant rebuild. In years past, it took 3-4 years to build a program. Now you can do it in a couple of weeks. So there is instant hope. Just look at how new coach Pat Kelsey has reinvigorated the Louisville fan base, virtually overnight.

Of course it’s immensely stressful for the coaches and their staffs, who have to go through two recruiting cycles - the traditional one for freshmen and the new one now for transfers. Someone (several someones most likely) have to run through massive amounts of videotape. You might see a guy like Andrew Rohde, who looked great at St. Thomas but less so at Virginia, where the competition is much more significant. How can you know for sure?

Any way you look at it, building a team is now quite a different experience than ever before. How would you even know where to begin? Duke has big-time talent but a lot of it is quite young, as has been the case for going on 15 years now. Most other schools are much more experienced (Duke has done a great job of bringing in older transfers as well though).

Anyway, here are the current rosters as best we understand them. They might still change.

Note - the classes listed for each player are as listed by ESPN and are for this past season, not next season. However, in a couple of cases we knew they were wrong and fixed it and we don’t always know if someone got an extra year or not. So to simplify, we just went with what ESPN listed, bearing in mind that it is for this past season, not next (at least most of the time).

Boston College

Back:

• Donald Hand
• Chas Kelley
• Elijah Strong
• Fred Payne
• Jayden Hastings

Transfers

• Dion Brown (UMBC) 6-3 sophomore
• Josh Beadle (Clemson) 6-3 sophomore
• Chad Vennings (St. Bonaventure) 6-10/255
• Roger McFarland (SE Lousiana) 6-5 junior

Freshmen

• Luka Toews 6-1
• Nick Petronio 6-3
• Kany Tchanda 6-9/210

Clemson

Back:

• Ian Schieffelin
• Chauncey Wiggins,
• Dillon Hunter
• Chase Hunter

Transfers:

• Jake Heidbreder (Air Force) 6-5 junior
• Viktor Lakhin (Cincinnati) 6-11/240 junior
• Christian Reeves (Duke) 7-1/261 sophomore
• Myles Foster (Illinois State) 6-7/235 senior
• Jaeden Zackery (Boston College) 6-2 junior

Freshmen:

• Dallas Thomas 6-7
• Ace Buckner 6-1
• Del Jones 6-2
• Asa Thomas 6-7 redshirt

Florida State

Back:

• Chandler Jackson
• Taylor Bol Bowen

Transfers:

• Boston Holt (South Dakota State) 6-7 senior
• Jerry Deng (Hampton) 6-9 freshman
• Justin Thompson (UTSA) 6-7 junior
• Malique Ewin (JUCO) 6-10

Freshmen:

• DaQuan Davis 6-1
• AJ Swinton 6-5
• Christian Nitu 6-9

Georgia Tech

Back:

• Lance Terry
• Naithan George
• Kowacie Reeves
• Baye Ndongo

Transfers:

• Javian McCollum (Oklahoma) 6-2 junior
• Jalen Forrest (Presbyterian son of James Forrest) 6-4 freshman
• Luke O’ Brien (Colorado) 6-8 senior
• Ryan Mutombo (Georgetown and yes he’s Dikembe’s kid) 7-2 junior

Freshmen

• Jaeden Mustaf 6-4
• Darrion Sutton 6-6
• Doryan Onwuchekwa 6-8
• Cole Kirouac 6-8

Louisville

Back:

None, and a good thing too

Transfers:

• Terrence Edwards (James Madison) 6-6
• Kasean Pryor (USF) 6-10/210
• Reyne Smith (Charleston) 6-2
• Aboubacar Traore (LBSU) 6-5
• J’Vonne Hadley (Colorado) 6-6 senior
• Koren Johnson (Washington) 6-2 sophomore
• Kobe Rodgers (Charleston) 6-3 junior
• Chucky Hepburn (Wisconsin) 6-2 junior
• Aly Khalifa (BYU) 6-11/270
• James Scott (Charleston) 6-11/210
• Noah Waterman (BYU) 6-11/220
• Frank Anselem-Ibe (Georgia) 6-10/215

Freshman

• Khani Rooths 6-8/205

Miami

Back:

• Matthew Cleveland
• Nijel Pack
• Paul Djobet

Transfers:

• Jalen Blackmon (Stetson) 6-3 junior
• Brandon Johnson (ECU) 6-8 junior
• Lynn Kidd (Virginia Tech) 6-10/235 senior
• Kirk Huie Idaho State 6-9 junior

Freshmen:

• Jalil Bethea 6-4
• Austin Swartz 6-4
• Isaiah Johnson-Arigu 6-7
• Divine Ugochukwu 6-2

NC State

Back:

• Jayden Taylor
• Ben Middlebrooks
• Michael O’ Connell
• Dennis Parker
• MJ Rice
• Breon Pass
• Ernest Ross

Transfers:

• Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (Louisville) 6-10/240 junior
• Dontrez Styles (Georgetown) 6-6 junior
• Mike James (Louisville) 6-5 sophomore
• Marcus Hill (Bowling Green) 6-4 junior

Freshmen:

• Paul McNeil 6-5
• Tremayne Parker 6-3

UNC

Back:

• RJ Davis
• Elliot Cadeau
• Seth Trimble
• Jae’Lyn Withers
• Jalen Washington
• Zayden High

Transfers

• Cade Tyson (Belmont) 6-7 sophomore
• Ven-Allen Lubin (Vanderbilt) 6-8 sophomore

Freshmen:

• Ian Jackson 6-4
• Drake Powell 6-5
• James Brown 6-8

Notre Dame

Back:

• Markus Burton
• Braeden Shrewsberry
• Tae Davis
• JR Konieczny
• Julian Roper II
• Kebba Njie
• Logan Imes

Transfers:

• Matt Allocco (Princeton) 6-4 senior
• Nikita Konstantynovskyi (Monmouth) 6-10/245 senior
• Burke Chebuhar (Lehigh) 6-8 senior

Freshmen:

• Nasir Mohammed 6-5
• Cole Certa 6-5
• Garrett Sundra 6-8

Pitt

Back:

• Ishmael Leggett
• Jaland Lowe
• Jorge Diaz Graham
• Guillermo Diaz Graham
• Zack Austin

Transfers:

• Cam Corhen (FSU) 6-10/225 sophomore
• Damien Dunn (Houston) 6-5 senior

Freshmen:

• Brandin Cummings 6-2
• Amdy Ndiaye 6-9/205
• Marlon Barnes 6-4
• Papa Kante 6-9/215 redshirt
• Amsal Delalic 6-7

Syracuse

Back:

• JJ Starling
• Chris Bell
• Kyle Cuff Jr.
• Naheem McLeod

Transfers:

• Eddie Lampkin (Colorado)
• Jyare Davis (Delaware)
• Jaquan Carlos (Hofstra)
• Chance Westry (Auburn)

Freshmen:

• Donavan Freeman
• Elijah Moore

Virginia

Back:

• Isaac McKneely
• Andrew Rohde
• Blake Buchanan
• Elijah Gertrude
• Taine Murray

Transfers:

• Jalen Warley (FSU) 6-7 junior
• Elijah Saunders (San Diego) 6-8 sophomore
• Dai Dai Ames (Kansas State) 6-1 freshman
• TJ Power (Duke) 6-9 freshman

Freshmen:

• Jacob Cofie 6-7
• Ishan Sharma 6-4
• Christian Bliss 6-4
• Anthony Robinson 6-10/230

Virginia Tech

Back:

• Mylyjael Poteat
• Brandon Rechsteiner
• Jaydon Young
• Patrick Wesley

Transfers:

• Hysier Miller (Temple) 6-1 junior
• Ben Burnham (Charleston) 6-7 junior
• Toibu Lawal (VCU) 6-8 sophomore
• Rodney Brown (Cal) 6-6 freshman
• Jaden Schutt (Duke) 6-4 freshman

Freshmen:

• Ryan Jones 6-8
• Tyler Johnson 6-5
• Ben Hammond 5-8

Wake Forest

Back:

• Cameron Hildreth
• Efton Reid
• Parker Friedrichsen
• Marqus Marion
• Hunter Sallis

Transfers:

• TreVon Spillers (Appalachian State) junior 6-7
• Ty-Laur Johnson (Louisville) 6-0 freshman
• Churchill Abass (DePaul) 6-9/240 freshman
• Omaha Billow (Iowa State) 6-8/225 freshman

Freshmen:

• Juke Harris 6-5

Cal

Back:

• Vladimir Pavlocic
• Devin Curtis

Transfers:

• BJ Omot (North Dakota)
• Rytis Petraitis (Air Force)
• DJ Campbell (Western Carolina)
• Christian Tucker (UTSA)
• Andrej Stojakovic (Stanford)
• Joshua Ola-Joseph (Minnesota)
• Mady Sissoko (Michigan State)
• Lee Dort (Vanderbilt)

Freshmen:

• Jeremiah Wilkinson 6-1

SMU

Back:

• Chuck Harris
• Keon Ambrose-Hylton
• BJ Edwards
• Transfers:
• Kevin Miller (Wake Forest) 6-0 sophomore
• Matt Cross (UMass) 6-7 senior
• Yohan Traore (UCSB) 6-11/235
• AJ George (LBSU) 6-6
• Kario Oquendo (Oregon) 6-4
• Jerrell Colbert (Kansas State) 6-10/235
• Tibet Gorenor (San Jose State) 6-9/205

Freshmen:

• Mitchell Holmes 6-7
• Chance Puryear 6-7

Stanford

Back:

• Maxime Raynaud
• Benny Gealer
• Ryan Agarwal
• Jaylen Thompson

Transfers:

• Derin Saran (UC-Irvine) 6-4 freshman
• Oziyah Sellers (USC) 6-5 sophomore
• Cole Castner (Virginia lacrosse) 6-7 senior
• Chisom Okpara (Harvard) 6-8 sophomore

Freshmen:

• Evan Stinson 6-6
• Tallis Toure 6-9
• Donavin Young 6-8