The University of Florida won the 2025 NCAA Tournament, marking the end of the 2024-25 NCAA basketball season.
Coming off a loss in the Mountain West Championship, the Boise State Broncos missed out on their chance to compete in the NCAA Tournament and were instead invited to the brand new Crown Tournament.
Despite strong efforts from the Broncos, they fell short and lost to the University of Nebraska in the tournament’s semi-final.
With the conclusion of the season, the NCAA transfer portal is already heating up and teams across the country are in competition to score some of the top prospects. In Boise State’s case, the Broncos have a lot to work on.
The Broncos are losing three of their starters to graduation in May and have had multiple of their younger players enter the transfer portal.
Starting forward O’mar Stanley and starting point guard Alvaro Cardenas are among those graduating, marking the end of their collegiate basketball careers.
Cardenas finished his single season at Boise State by breaking the team’s season assist record while scoring 11.5 points per game.
Despite coming off of a rough senior season, Stanley was a key player during the Broncos 2023-24 season and averaged 12.7 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.
The other graduating Bronco is one of the program’s greatest: four year starting forward, Tyson Degenhart.
He not only scored 2037 total points — the most in Boise State basketball history — but scored 676 points during the 2024-2025 season, the most in season history for the Broncos. The future is bright for wherever Degenhart chooses to go.
“These last 4 years have been nothing short of incredible,” Degenhart said on his Instagram. “I am filled with so much gratitude to have been a part of an incredible university. I am so thankful for all of my teammates, coaches, support staff, family, friends and Bronco Nation for making this experience so special. I will always be a Bronco and I will bleed blue forever!”
Redshirt freshman Chris Lockett Jr., redshirt sophomore Dylan Anderson, redshirt freshman Moses Hipps and sophomore Emmanuel Ugbo all announced their entrance into the transfer portal, leaving the Broncos even more short-handed going into the next season.
The good news for Broncos fans is that help is on the way.
Former four star point guard, Dylan Andrews, announced he is transferring from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to Boise State.
After averaging 12.9 points per game in his sophomore season with the Bruins, Andrews had a rough junior season and averaged only 6.9 points off the bench. Andrews is more than capable of having a comeback season, and a change of scenery may be just what he needed.
A familiar face announced his transfer to the Broncos as well.
Drew Fielder, a former four star center out of Rocky Mountain High School — located in Meridian, Idaho — announced his de-commitment to the University of Southern California and his return to Boise.
In his most recent season at Georgetown University, Fielder averaged 7.1 points per game and 5.4 rebounds as a starter. There’s potential for him to become Degenhard’s replacement.
“Momma I’m coming home,” Fielder said on his Instagram. “Boise let’s do it!”
With the additions of Fielder and Andrews and the return of Andrew Meadow, Pearson Carmichael and other Boise State reliables — the Broncos are likely to be a Mountain West Champion contender for the upcoming season.
