Fifth KU Jayhawks basketball player enters transfer portal. Here’s a running tally
Kansas Jayhawks guard Rylan Griffen has entered the NCAA transfer portal, a KU spokesperson confirmed to The Star on Monday.
Griffen is the fifth KU men’s basketball player to enter the portal and the third to do so in the last two days. He joins guards Rakease Passmore, David Coit and big men Flory Bidunga and Zach Clemence as players leaving coach Bill Self’s program.
A junior, Griffen has one season of college eligibility remaining. He averaged 6.3 points and 2.1 rebounds in 20.2 minutes per game this past season. Griffen shot 37.3% from the field and 33.6% on 3-pointers. He played in 33 games for Kansas during the 2024-25 season, starting 20.
Griffen joined Kansas last offseason after playing two seasons at Alabama. He helped lead the Crimson Tide to the Final Four in the 2023-24 season.
The former four-star recruit averaged 11.2 points and 3.4 rebounds that season.
Coit made his own announcement about leaving Lawrence earlier Monday. He averaged 5.1 points and 1.5 rebounds in 15.5 minutes per game last season. He was primarily a backup in the 34 games in which he played after opening the season as a starter.
Before he arrived in Lawrence, Coit played two seasons at Northern Illinois. He averaged 20.1 points per game during the 2023-24 season. He played his freshman season at Atlantic Cape, a junior college.
Passmore didn’t play much this past season. He averaged .7 points and .6 rebounds while averaging just 5 minutes per contest in 23 games.
The former four-star recruit was ranked No. 48 by 247sports.com and No. 49 by Rivals.com in the 2024 recruiting class. He picked Kansas over Oklahoma and LSU when he was coming out of high school.
The biggest portal loss for KU this offseason would be Bidunga. He was heir to the center position occupied by All-American Hunter Dickinson the past two seasons.
The freshman center averaged 5.9 points and 5.4 rebounds in 16.3 minutes per game this past season. Incoming five-star freshman Darryn Peterson even mentioned Bidunga as the player he’d most like to play alongside at Kansas.
