On Monday, Jerome Tang and the Kansas State Wildcats added one of the best players available in the transfer portal with the commitment of Memphis transfer PJ Haggerty .
Haggerty, a 6-foot-3 point guard from blank, earned Second-Team All-American honors in 2024-25 with Memphis, and now will take the court as a Wildcat in Manhattan, Kansas.
NEWS: AAC Player of the Year and consensus All-American PJ Haggerty has withdrawn from the NBA draft and committed to Kansas State, he told ESPN. pic.twitter.com/1PuVD4RoD2
— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) May 26, 2025
Last season with the Tigers, Haggerty earned All-American honors by averaging 21.7 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game. He connected on 47.6% of shots from the field, 36.4% from three-point range, and 81.8% from the free throw line.
After back-to-back years averaging 20+ points, Haggerty understandably has earned some serious praise. He currently checks in as 247Sports‘ second-ranked player in the transfer portal, only behind Michigan’s Yaxel Lendeborg.
With the commitment, Kansas State has now added a total of five players in the transfer portal, including Haggerty, Akron’s Nate Johnson, Monmouth’s Abdi Bashir Jr., Memphis’ Tyreek Smith, and UNCW’s Khamari McGriff.
The transfer portal officially opened on Monday, March 24, 2025. According to NCAA data, 1,296 FBS basketball players entered the transfer portal in the 2023-24 school year, with 864 (66.7%) undergraduates and 432 (33.3%) graduate transfers. Of the entrants, 70% reported that they enrolled in another school, 6% withdrew their names from the portal, and 23% are still active, transferred to a non-NCAA school, or left their sport.
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