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Wisconsin guard AJ Storr was one of the top names in the transfer portal, but on Thursday, he made a decision on his college basketball future.
Storr will head over to Kansas to play for Bill Self and the Jayhawks, immediately boosting the program’s national title aspirations.
With Wisconsin, the sophomore led the team in scoring at 16.8 points per game, helping the Badgers reach the NCAA Tournament. After just one season, though, he’s leaving Madison.
NCAA news: Wisconsin sophomore transfer AJ Storr – one of the top players in the portal – has chosen to play for the University of Kansas, he told @TheAthletic @Stadium. John Calipari’s Arkansas, Illinois, Texas were finalists. Storr averaged 17 points and 4 rebounds this season.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 18, 2024
That decision comes after having suited up for St. John’s in his first collegiate season, meaning Kansas will be his third college program in as many years.
Looking back further, the ride gets wilder.
The guard played for four different high schools before becoming an NCAA student-athlete. That makes seven schools in seven years following his latest announcement!
AJ Storr is rumored to have turned down Kansas once already.
Reports came out earlier this offseason claiming that he’d been asking for $1M in NIL money with his next program. Kansas is said to have countered at $750K, and he walked!
If those claims are true, something must’ve changed over the last few weeks.
Did Kansas increase its offer? Did Storr lose leverage with a poor NBA Draft stock? Was $750K the best offer he was going to get?
So many questions, which unfortunately, we likely won’t find the answers to.
As it stands, Bill Self is set to have an extremely dangerous roster in 2024-25, and AJ Storr is a big reason why.