One of the most important ways to build a winning roster in college basketball is by using the transfer portal, which is now officially open. Even though March Madness is still very much in swing,

Griffen is the fifth KU men’s basketball player to enter the portal and the third to do so in the last two days. He joins guards Rakease Passmore, David Coit and big men Flory Bidunga and Zach Clemence as players leaving coach Bill Self’s program.

With Ja’Kobi Gillespie, Rodney Rice, DeShawn Harris-Smith and Tafara Gapare entering the transfer portal, the Maryland men have almost no returners for next year.