DePaul's Outgoing Transfers: Where Are They Now? (Men's Edition)
With the dust finally settled on the 2025 men's basketball transfer cycle, here's where the six Blue Demons who entered the portal ended up for next season.
CONOR ENRIGHT - Indiana
Enright was the only outgoing men’s player to land at a high-major for 2025-26, and also the only outgoing player from either gender who will be playing for his former coach. From the moment news broke of Darian DeVries’ departure from West Virginia to go coach in Bloomington, this was fully expected to be the outcome. After two seasons together at Drake (one of his only Division I offers out of high school), the pair will reunite for Enright’s final year of eligibility. He will likely end up running the backup point, as Indiana also landed a commitment from 6-foot-3 Tayton Conerway who reliably anchored a Troy team that played in the Round of 64 against Kentucky last season.
In his sole year as a Blue Demon, Enright was the emotional leader for a scrappy DePaul team that was just starting to figure themselves out as he went out for the season with a shoulder injury in early February. Hoosier fans will love his intensity and complete lack of self-preservation on the defensive end, and his passing ability is undeniable against high-majors and low-majors alike as he averaged 6.2 assists per game through 23 games in 2024-25. The elephant in the room is his turnover rate of 29.8 percent per KenPom, but I’d expect fewer cough-ups with a stronger talent level surrounding him and less projected usage. Both Enright and Indiana have aspirations of getting to the NCAA tournament next year, and if he can fully bounce back from the shoulder injury post-surgery, he’ll be a major boost for the Hoosiers’ March hopes.
For locals interested in catching Enright at his new school, Indiana will face Marquette at the United Center on November 9th.
SEKOU KONNEH - Milwaukee
Konneh redshirted his freshman year at DePaul, so he has yet to play a single college game as he heads for a Milwaukee squad that finished 21-11 with a second-place regular season finish in the Horizon League. It’s not difficult to see what Panthers head coach Bart Lundy is after, as Konneh’s high school tape shows high-level athleticism around the rim and some real bounce to back it up. His 6-foot-9 frame will set him up well to compete in the Horizon as a prospective starting center, and a second year in a Division I conditioning program should add strength to help him body with opposing defenders inside. Milwaukee was Konneh’s first offer in April 2022 on a list that also included Loyola, Indiana State, DePaul and Louisville, so it’s clear Lundy will have a plan for his development once he gets the Wisconsin native on campus.
JACOB MEYER - UAB
This feels like a perfect fit for Meyer, who ends up in Birmingham as a member of Andy Kennedy’s Blazers. While he is unfortunately one season too late to team up with statistical monster Yaxel Lendeborg, the American Athletic Conference should nonetheless present Meyer with increased opportunity to showcase his shooting prowess from beyond the arc. As a freshman at Coastal Carolina, Meyer averaged 15.7 points and 5.1 rebounds per game while shooting 40.8 percent from deep. While his ability to create for himself and hit three-pointers in bunches shone through in the non-conference portion of DePaul’s schedule, his usage as a sophomore decreased midway through league play as the speed of high-major defenses started to make him uncomfortable with the ball in his hands.
Meyer will always be remembered as the man who saved DePaul from the “epitome of brutality” against Southern Indiana on opening night in 2024-25, posting a heroic 23 points with 4-9 shooting from three-point range, one of which tied the game and ultimately sent it to overtime. His only other outing above 20 points was a December 14th victory against Wichita State (who just so happens to play in the same league as UAB), where he posted a game-high 23 points including a blistering 4-6 from deep. Meyer also narrowly shot the most free throws on DePaul in 2024-25, posting an average of 3.19 free throw attempts per game in the 27 games where he played greater than 10 minutes. (In the six games where he played below 10 minutes, he attempted a total of zero.)
If his deadeye perimeter shooting and ability to get to the rim can fully translate to AAC play, Meyer should be a key piece in UAB’s hopes to earn a March Madness bid for the second time in three seasons.
CHRIS RIDDLE - Toledo
If there was one minor disappointment for me with last year’s rotations, it was that Kenwood freshman Chris Riddle never sniffed consistent minutes, even during November’s 7-0 stretch against KenPom sub-200 mid-major opponents. And while last year featured examples at both UConn and Georgetown, it’s obviously very rare that a freshman comes into the Big East and makes an immediate impact for his team. With that said, however, Riddle’s muscular 6-foot-5 frame lent itself to being a prototypical Big East wing long-term. Alas, Riddle ended up in the portal just days before the 2025 deadline, and his sophomore recruitment became somewhat of a MAC sweepstakes, with Tod Kowalczyk’s Toledo Rockets ultimately winning out.
In just five minutes per game his freshman year, Riddle averaged 1.1 points and 1.0 rebounds while shooting 58.3 percent from the field. He also posted a defensive rebound percentage of 18.1 percent per KenPom, which was third-highest on DePaul last season despite being in an extremely limited role against largely second-unit players. While this may not seem like a terribly impressive stat at the Big East level, it projects extremely well heading into a mid-major league like the MAC where his burgeoning physicality will pose more of a threat. Riddle also shot 62.5 percent from three-point range in 2024-25, making five of his eight attempts on the season. Once again some major regression to the mean is due here, but the shot is pure and his ability to find open space around the perimeter was impressive for being a three-star recruit.
And most importantly for Riddle’s ability to embrace his new role as a projected starting guard, his maturity is well beyond his years. In preseason interviews he came off as very poised and coachable, while embracing the journey towards earning his desired playing time. Would expect Riddle to take a major step as a sophomore and have a near-immediate impact for the Rockets next season.
DAVID THOMAS - Richmond
While it’s difficult as of this writing to see them cracking the top three to five of the inimitable Atlantic 10 conference for 2025-26, Richmond is a team I expect to make a bit more noise than they’re being given credit for this offseason. After a 13th-place A10 finish last year, the Spiders brought back three of their top five scorers and also retained Apostolos Roumoglou, who was a bench spark in his junior season after being at UConn during their back-to-back national championship runs. One of their biggest weaknesses last season was the three-point shot (31.37 percent good for 308th in Division I), which is one of many areas the transfer pickup of backup point guard David Thomas should help alleviate.
Thomas was one of the most impactful players for DePaul last season in the team’s 11 games post-Enright injury. After not seeing the floor much in the early portions of the schedule, he averaged 7.1 points, 2.4 assists and 2.3 rebounds over that 11-game span while adjusting to the lead guard role on the fly. And as a defender, Thomas plays well beyond his 6-foot-2 frame. In his first game logging 25-plus minutes in 2024-25, Thomas drew the Eric Dixon assignment against Villanova and largely locked down the nation’s leading scorer, holding him to a season-low 14 points on 4-14 shooting. He also had a few acrobatic blocks in his post-Enright DePaul tenure, including a highlight play in DePaul’s final regular season Big East matchup against Georgetown on March 8 (skip to 4:10).
If Richmond is going to crack the top half of the A10 standings in 2025-26, Thomas’ lockdown on-ball defense and creation ability will be a major reason why. The perimeter shot faltered a bit in his sophomore year at DePaul, but having shot 40 percent at Mercer as a freshman, the step down to a top-tier mid-major conference should increase his confidence from beyond the arc and massively boost his stock.
JJ TRAYNOR - Murray State
If you asked me which outgoing transfer fit I liked most from either gender heading into 2025-26, it would be very difficult to not say JJ Traynor ending up back in his native Kentucky for his sixth and final year of eligibility. For all intents and purposes, there will be a 12th Big East team next season, as first-year head coach Ryan Miller left an assistant job at Creighton to become head coach of the Murray State Racers and imported six players from the league to join his inaugural roster. Miller was the offensive coordinator for a Bluejays team that made at least the Round of 32 in each of his four seasons on campus, and during his tenure Creighton’s best teams were built around a crafty undersized point guard with a lengthy shot-blocker anchoring the defense.
This is where Traynor comes in. After spending two years coaching 6-foot-1 point guard Steven Ashworth and 7-foot-1 Ryan Kalkbrenner at center, Miller will have 5-foot-11 Central Arkansas transfer Layne Taylor running point with 6-foot-9 Traynor able to slide in at the 5. While it’s possible Traynor could slide to the 4 spot in some situations given the Racers’ other pieces at center, he showed flashes of high-level rim protection in the back half of DePaul’s season. In the last eight games of his season, Traynor averaged 1.4 blocks in 22.3 minutes per game, and posted two straight games of three blocks in that span. On the offensive end, he is also extremely efficient around the rim, notching a full-season mark of 66.7 percent inside the arc on 2.73 two-point shots per game in only 17.0 minutes per contest.
Throughout his sole season at DePaul, there were points where Traynor struggled to get it going at both ends. But once starting center NJ Benson went out with a hand injury in mid-February, he stepped up and played a critical role. DePaul went 3-5 in Traynor’s last eight games, and at points it felt like the team fed off his energy as he willed a bruised and battered Blue Demon frontcourt to the finish line. The Missouri Valley will have lots of competition at the top with Illinois State and Bradley returning large portions of their rosters, but with their depth and high-major experience across the roster, Murray State will be a legitimate contender to win the league and advance to Traynor’s first-ever March Madness.