The transfer portal has given each player in college basketball the opportunity to become a free agent after every season, and that’s been a highly profitable arrangement for the select few coveted by the biggest brands in the sport. Oumar Ballo knows it better than anyone.
Ballo was a four-star, consensus top-100 recruit in the class of 2019 behind top dogs like Anthony Edwards and James Wiseman. He committed to Gonzaga, redshirted his freshman year, and played sparingly the Zags’ nearly undefeated juggernaut in 2021. When assistant coach Tommy Lloyd was hired by lead Arizona, Ballo followed. He’s been better of the more productive big men in the country
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