GW Hoops / All-Time Transfer-In Team

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 5/21/2026 9:11 am

I am relying on my memory which almost automatically means I'll be forgetting some guys. In any case, here is my 12 man team of GW players who transferred into the program:

Starting Lineup:

PG: James Bishop..Sure, I'd like to play JB off the ball but the one thing that John Holloran, Curtis Jeffries, Mike O'Reilly, Ellis McKennie, Alvin Pearsall, Shawnta Rogers, Carl Elliott, Tony Taylor, and Joe McDonald have in common is that none of them transferred in.

SG James Bishop..just kidding. I'll lean towards Mo Creek over Brendan Adams. Mo only had one season at GW but performed as well as could have been expected given his health history, and reached the NCAA's. Brendan's outstand final season was preceded by a disappointing first year at GW.

C Rafael Castro. The easiest starter to name by far.

SF Tyler Cavanaugh. Tyler was a bit of a swing forward between the 3 and 4 but the damage he could wreak along the perimeter allows me to feel good playing him at the 3.

PF Zeke Armwood. The heart and soul of an NCAA bound team. Need a bucket? Block? Rebound? Pep talk? Zeke was the guy who took Joe/Kethan/Pato/KevLar under his wing and led the way.

Bench: Brendan Adams, Joe Bamisile, Bill Brigham, Regis Koundjia, Armel Potter

The final bench spot boils down to either Alex Mitola or Wynton Witherspoon. Mitola had far more modest numbers but was a much better fit to a winning team than WW who played on an "all guys for themselves" type of outfit. I realize that Mitola would be the more popular pick but I'll lean towards Spoon who simply had more talent and was also a more versatile player.

Who did I miss? Who is on your starts and comes off the bench on your team?

**Posted by H&R..71** 5/21/2026 9:37 am

Agree with majority but would replace Joe Bam (his best yrs came after GW) and Potter, with Matt Hart and Ricky Lindo who were both pretty impactful.

**Posted by Wisconsin Colonial 1974** 5/21/2026 10:30 am

No Bob Tallent? 28.9 PPG after transferring from UK. SG or even PG.

**Posted by Poog** 5/21/2026 11:33 am

Wisconsin Colonial 1974 wrote:
No Bob Tallent? 28.9 PPG after transferring from UK. SG or even PG.

Agree. Also, no better catch and shoot threat than Brian Magid

**Posted by DC Native** 5/21/2026 12:12 pm

I asked AI who were the most accomplished transfers in GW men's basketball history, just to see what it would say, and it listed the following:

- James Bishop
- Zeke Armwood
- Mo Creek
- Raphael Castro

I then asked it to give me a starting 5 of best transfers all time and it gave me this (not far off of Mayhem's team):

PG: James Bishop
SG: Mo Creek
SF: Max Edwards (!?!)
PF: Tyler Cavanaugh
C: Zeke Armwood (selection over Castro at C interesting)
6th Man: Darren Buchanan

Another name no one has mentioned yet (including the AI) is Garrett Johnson...

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**Posted by Wisconsin Colonial 1974** 5/21/2026 2:05 pm

Red Auerbach went to a junior college before GW. That count?

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 5/21/2026 2:13 pm

Tallent and Magid were just really bad misses on my part.

Lindo I had written down for inclusion and then forgot about him. Jun, Garrett and Max all get treated differently in that they did not play at all at Va Tech, Princeton and Kansas State respectively. It's true that they each transferred in but not having played at all at a previous stop is not what I had in mind for this question. Matt Hart I'll simply disagree with. There are more than 12 better choices in my mind. So, here's my revised team:

Starting Lineup: Bishop, Tallent, Castro, Armwood, Cavanaugh
Bench: Creek, Magid, Adams, Brigham, Koundjia, Lindo, Bamisile

I now realize I only provided 11 on my original team having left off Lindo by mistake. So, I'm adding Tallent, Magid and Lindo to the team and saying goodbye to Spoon and Potter (though we just became more point guard challenged without Armel).

**Posted by GW Alum Abroad** 5/21/2026 2:36 pm

I realize this is oriented towards men´s basketball, but these lists always omit the most successful GW basketball transfer Jonquel Jones. Honestly, she could probably hoop with all the players mentioned above.
If JuCo transfers count, then maybe include Gerald Jackson. And surprised no one is mentioning Mike Brey (who made more of an impact as a coach, but did transfer to play at GW, where he was a contributor).
Sadly, the way things are going, in a few years "transfer player" will be a redundancy and all we will need to say is "player".

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**Posted by Gwmayhem** 5/21/2026 3:03 pm

Mike Brey gets to coach this team, but he doesn't get to play on it.

**Posted by dmvpiranha** 5/21/2026 3:41 pm

Regis no doubt played on better teams, but I might go with Hunter Dean as the backup big. He definitely has the edge on offense and I thought he was underrated defensively.

**Posted by xAC** 5/21/2026 4:47 pm

Another really good transfer player for GW was Bob Lindsay.

**Posted by porter71** 5/21/2026 9:39 pm

This team is missing a true backup point guard. Give me Bernard Barrow playing 8 minutes a game.

**Posted by Free Quebec** 5/21/2026 11:07 pm

I think it’s fair to leave Talent and Magic out since I think the modern era would be basically Jarvis to now (or, could say from the time the ncaa expanded to 64). But your game, your rules.

One guy who hasn’t been mentioned who deserves a shout as the backup PG is Omo Moses.

He was a horrendous shooter, but an absolute defensive wizard on some of the best GE teams ever. He played over 20 mpg as a defensive stopper on one of the only three GW teams to win a game in the NCAAs.

Herve hated him, but I remember watching him in the preseason NIT single-handedly take Memphis out of their offense in a big early season NIT win at Madison Square Garden (I think it was the 3rd place game, and iirc Memphis had a tiny but very quick PG named Garner who Omo shut down).

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**Posted by Poog** 5/22/2026 12:26 am

Don’t understand the out of the blue modifier to this thread of “modern era” but if that were to be applied, seems like that should restrict inclusion to transfers that occurred during the modern NIL era. Since none of us really accept getting old, the notion of modern is essentially determined by the time we were cognizant of or watched Colonials basketball.

**Posted by Free Quebec** 5/22/2026 11:17 am

Poog wrote:
Don’t understand the out of the blue modifier to this thread of “modern era” but if that were to be applied, seems like that should restrict inclusion to transfers that occurred during the modern NIL era. Since none of us really accept getting old, the notion of modern is essentially determined by the time we were cognizant of or watched Colonials basketball.

Guilty. Mostly I just want to exclude guys I’m too young to have seen 😂

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 5/22/2026 11:39 am

Kudos to GWAA on the Gerald Jackson mention. Really nice player on some subpar Kuester teams. 14.2 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 40% shooting from 3 on over 3 attempts per game during his senior year. Well ahead of Barrow or Moses IMO.

As for Bob Lindsay, I'll refer you to FQ's most recent response on this thread. Guilty as charged.

**Posted by GW Alum Abroad** 5/22/2026 12:26 pm

Free Quebec wrote:
Poog wrote:
Don’t understand the out of the blue modifier to this thread of “modern era” but if that were to be applied, seems like that should restrict inclusion to transfers that occurred during the modern NIL era. Since none of us really accept getting old, the notion of modern is essentially determined by the time we were cognizant of or watched Colonials basketball.
Guilty. Mostly I just want to exclude guys I’m too young to have seen 😂

"Too young to have seen". As someone at GW around the same time as you, I see what you did there FQ

**Posted by Wisconsin Colonial 1974** 5/23/2026 9:01 am

Think Tallent’s stats hold up no matter what era. Consider also that he played before the 3 point shot.

**Posted by Long Suffering Fan** 5/23/2026 11:28 am

xAC wrote:
Another really good transfer player for GW was Bob Lindsay.

The year after GW beat Maryland at Cole (John Hollaran's 38 point game), Maryland, the 2 teams played once again, this time in the Smith Center, and once again GW won, this time led by Bob Lindsay,. The very next game, we had a road game against one of the Virginia teams (maybe ODU or William and Mary?) in which one of the players intentionally started a fight with Lindsay to get them both thrown out of the game. Hollaran had already graduated and Lindsay was the best player on our team. That led to GW refusing to play that team again for quite some time. Does anyone else remember this? We are talking nearly 50 years ago.

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**Posted by Long Suffering Fan** 5/23/2026 11:42 am

Wisconsin Colonial 1974 wrote:
Think Tallent’s stats hold up no matter what era. Consider also that he played before the 3 point shot.

Bob Tallent was on Kentucky’s 1965–66 all white team that lost to Texas Western's all black team in the historic 1966 NCAA championship game. Tallent ultimately went on to coach the 1970-1971 freshman team, which was led by a deadeye left handed jump shooter with unlimited range that we now know as Wisconsin Colonial, In the words of Paul Harvey, now you know the rest of the story.