The recent trend in college basketball has been to build rosters through the transfer portal, adding experienced players who already know the college game and can have an immediate impact.

The movement has been upended this season with a deep, uber-talented class of freshmen who are having massive impacts on programs across the country.

“It’s an anomaly, in the sense that every year there’s a handful of freshmen that make an impact and oftentimes those are the one-and-done guys,” ESPN college basketball analyst and former coach Fran Fraschilla said. “But this, to me, is one of the deepest, if not the deepest freshman class that I can remember in 25 years. It's been impressive that they literally are, in many cases, the best player on some really good top-25 teams.”

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