committed to Elon <\/a>for the 2026-27 season. Of all players on the 2025-26 roster, Thrower was the only player to have played all four of his seasons at Penn. In the era of the transfer portal, the Manhattan Beach, Calif. native was a rarity in college basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\nFollowing a junior season that saw him sidelined with a wrist injury, Thrower came back better than ever for his senior season, averaging a career high in points per game while shooting over 38% from three.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thrower was a consistent rotational piece in the regular season, and he turned up the heat in the postseason. When leading scorer Roberts was ruled out of the Ivy League tournament with a concussion, it was Thrower who was thrust into the starting lineup on the biggest stage. He scored double digits in both Ivy Madness games, including a career-high 19 points in the championship game, and added 14 points in the Quakers\u2019 March Madness loss to Illinois.<\/p>\n
Thrower now leaves the Palestra for the first time in his collegiate career. He joins the Elon Phoenixes, looking to be a main contributor as the team sets its eyes on notching their first winning conference record in over 10 seasons.<\/p>\n
Helena Lasi\u0107<\/p>\n
The 2026 College graduate Helena Lasi\u0107 was the first to announce her intention to transfer, committing to the University of Windsor in April. Lasi\u0107 did not play in the 2025-26 season in order to use her final year of eligibility after graduating from Penn.<\/p>\n
In her three years with the Quakers, Lasi\u0107\u2019s on-court minutes were sparse \u2014 she played in a total of just 21 games across her three seasons with the Red and Blue. With her move north of the border, the Brampton, Ont. native is back in her home country and looking to play a bigger role with the Lancers. Windsor competes in the Ontario University Athletics conference of the U Sports governing body and is coming off two strong seasons, finishing 25-9 in 2024-25 and 24-6 in 2025-26.<\/p>\n
But it wasn’t only seniors who entered the transfer portal, as several undergraduate players made the decision to leave the Red and Blue.<\/p>\n
Michelangelo Oberti<\/p>\n
Rising junior center Michelangelo Oberti announced his commitment to Boston University in April. This was his second time in the transfer portal after he entered last year but decided to stay at Penn following the hire of coach Fran McCaffery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oberti struggled to be a mainstay in the Quakers\u2019 rotation over the last two seasons. However, he did show flashes of potential this past season \u2014 most notably in the season opener against Division III Rowan University, in which he tied his career-high of seven points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Terriers finished with a .500 record in each of their last two seasons.<\/p>\n
Sarah Miller<\/p>\n
On the women\u2019s side, rising junior guard Sarah Miller has committed to play for UC Irvine in the 2026-27 season. So far, Miller has had two wildly different collegiate seasons. Her freshman campaign was a success as she played in all 28 games and started in 11 of them. She made the most of her average of 15 minutes per game, averaging 5.5 points. Miller was also second in three-point efficiency on a team that secured an Ivy Madness appearance in 2025.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Miller\u2019s second season came with a decrease in playing time, with her appearing in just 15 games with a season total of 48 minutes. Less action led to less production across nearly all metrics except for of her elite efficiency.<\/p>\n
Now Miller will play for a strong UC Irvine program that has not had a losing season in six years. The Anteaters eclipsed the 20-win mark in each of the last five seasons and finished as the Big West Regular Season Champions just last season. The Phoenix native seeks to be a main contributor on a program that is consistently a Big West championship contender.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bradyn Foster<\/p>\n
In May, rising junior forward Bradyn Foster committed to the College of the Holy Cross. Foster saw little playing time in his two seasons at Penn, averaging just over six minutes a game in 12 matchups his freshman season and playing a total of three minutes in the 2025-26 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh native looks to have an increased role at Holy Cross, who set its eyes on having its first winning season since 2013-14.<\/p>\n
Ruke Ogbevire<\/p>\n
Rising sophomore guard Ruke Ogbevire joins Miller as the other undergraduate on the women\u2019s side transferring out of Penn. She was the first of the undergraduates to enter the transfer portal and recently announced her commitment to Sam Houston State University. Ogbevire saw limited action in her first year of college, playing in just eight games and averaging 7.4 minutes per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, her 2025-26 season wasn\u2019t without its share of highlights. The Houston native scored a collegiate career high of 11 points on 71.4% shooting in the season opener against Division III King\u2019s College. Though her limited playing time kept her from making a major impact on the 2025-26 Quakers squad, Ogbevire\u2019s efficiency stood out \u2014 she shot 55% from the field, 50% from three, and 100% from the charity stripe, albeit on little volume.<\/p>\n
Ogbevire joins a Sam Houston State program that is looking to build on a team that, in 2025-26, had its first winning season in five years.<\/p>\n
Alex Massung<\/p>\n
The most recent of these players to announce their intent to transfer is rising junior guard Alex Massung, who committed to Division II Saint Anselm College in June. After an injury held him out for his freshman year under then-coach Steve Donahue, the West Orange, N.J. native struggled to crack the rotation in his sophomore season, appearing in just 10 total games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before Penn, Massung attended New Jersey high school powerhouse Hudson Catholic, known for producing talents such as Auburn\u2019s Tahaad Pettiford and Alabama\u2019s Jahvon Quinerly. There, Massing was a two-time team captain and scored over 1,000 points. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Massung is the only one of the transfers committed to a Division II program. The Saint Anselm Hawks finished with a conference-leading 25-8 record in 2025-26, and won the Northeast 10 conference championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the NCAA\u2019s ever-changing landscape, transfers have become a routine part of college athletics. Nowhere has that transformation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-782113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}