Jalen Stokes is a 3 star 6'5 SG out of Daugherty HS in San Ramon. He also had offers from Montana, Missouri-Kansas City, and Texas-Rio Grande Valley.

https://verbalcommits.com/players/jalen-stokes

Daugherty Valley is in San Ramon. That was the home to both Robby Beasley and Connor Sevilla. He just transferred from Dublin (just like Robby Beasley)..

Thanks, Mike, verbalcommits.com listed his hometown as Oakland so I just assumed that Daugherty HS was in Oakland. I'll edit my post.

the EBAL in my neighborhood. He was Dublin’s best player last treat (all league, all area team) but is jumping across the city limits line to go to Daugherty. Bring this trio of EBAL/Daugherty players, I can’t remember anyone from this area coming to Davis.

Good early signing. Les seems to be getting the 6'5" to 6'7" wing type players (Cooper, Roberson, Sangster, Unuakhalu and Gilchrist) so I'm sure we'll see more positionless style of ball. Good tough athletic switching defense leading to transition baskets, or pull it back out and let TY or others beat the defense off the dribble. Should be a fun team to watch.

Bump.

Hopefully we get some more commitments and transfers with the move to mountain west and promise to increase spending on basketball

I think we had to agree to significantly increase the funding for basketball with a focus on elevating our level of competitiveness as a condition of joining the Mountain West.

Can’t win with high school kids at this level. Les needs the support to pay market rate for guys in order to compete in the Big West let alone with Nevada. The good teams are old.

The MBB transfer portal officially opens on Monday, March 24th and will be open for 30 days. I expect we will see a ton of players enter the portal and I would imagine that Les and his staff will be actively looking for possible transfers for the 2025-26 season.

I would imagine they’ll have their eyes on past recruits that slipped away who aren’t happy in their current spot. Robby Beasley fit that criteria.

A 100% Roberson would be a delayed impact transfer.

Robby Beasley would be a nice addition to the Aggies.

How about a new coach?

Then the women's team could hire someone from this message board since we're all experts here. — yolohw

:lol: I don't come cheap though!

he’s finished. He was named all-academic WCC as a graduate student. Bright kid

Sangster and Mani in the portal per verbal commits. We really do have a hard time keeping anything but guards on the roster.

I'm not surprised that Jac Mani and Derek Sangster have entered the portal.

Mani came here as a highly regarded HS recruit but he was injured much of the time. He was finally available at the start of conference play this year but only saw action in 10 games for a total of 55 minutes. He was praised early on by Les as having the potential to become and outstanding big man for the Ags. He has a beautiful 3 point shot but never showed the physicality and ability to defend in the interior.

Sangster is a bit of a mystery. He was a highly sought after HS recruit and signed with Princeton. I was expecting him to play a major role this year but he seldom saw any action at all. He played in 8 games for a total of 33 minutes. He did not look "comfortable" in the few minutes that I saw him play.

Carl Daugherty Jr and Nils Cooper were the two transfers that worked out very well for us this year and should be even better next year. Jamaal Unuakhalu began seeing action late in the season and showed promise. He has good length, defends well and appears to have an ability to score inside. I expect we'll see more of him next year.

Curiously, Sione Losé is being listed as "Offered" on verbalcommits.com . That's either a mistake or maybe he wasn't on scholarship...??

I saw that Lose item on verbalcommits. I'm guessing it has something to do with getting a scholarship.

Teams going to look totally different next season.

I think Les has to hit the portal hard. We have a lot of shoes to fill and we don't have size.

How many open spots?

I'm not sure but we are losing 6 players to graduation: TY Johnson, Leo DeBruhl, Niko Rocak, Pablo Tamba, Francesco Borra and Lucas Prongos. So if Mani and Sangster do not return, that's would be 8 possible open spots. We do have Jalen Stokes and Chase Rawlins coming in as true freshmen.

Jamaal Unuakhalu has entered the portal. That makes 3 Aggies in the portal. Looks like next season will be a total rebuild.

Charles Barkley nails it - will the NCAA be ruined because of policies for 1% of the athletes?

Will these changes hurt female athletes and education for many?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHObVYgRyj-/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

He makes a good point.

Nice find, CAF. It's not easy finding info on players in the MBB portal. I hope Les and his staff are able to bring in some high quality talent this year as we build towards playing stiffer competition in the MWC in 2026. With 6 graduating seniors and 3 more players in the portal we have a lot of spots to fill.

I think Les really has to go after guys like Jones Jr. if we are going to be competitive in the MW going forward. Very highly rated player coming out of high school, but only got limited minutes as a freshman. If playtime is what he is after he would almost certainly get it at Davis. That being said if NIL and post season asperations are what he wants, it will be tough to compete against schools like Texas Tech.

I only learned on this site that UC Davis will lower its admission standards for a certain number of athletes. I'm interested in the details of such exceptions. Can someone send me a link to where this is explained? Will joining the MWC change this?

The campus term is admission by exception (ABE). My understanding is that it is rarely used, and sometimes it's for a technicality - one class shy, one class doesn't transfer.

I believe the ICA goal is to match the same ABE use of the general campus for undergraduates. We aren't admitting student athletes w 2.3 GPAs. These are excellent students.