The Missouri Valley Conference will just not be the same next season. The transfer portal tells us so.

Nashvillehoops.blog, using the excellent web site verbalcommits.com, analyzed the transfer portal for the conferences associated with teams in Middle Tennessee, the Atlantic Sun, Conference USA, Ohio Valley, the Missouri Valley and the SEC.

There are 58 teams in those conferences with 240 players in the transfer portal. The Missouri Valley Conference has 67 players in the portal, by far the most. The teams hit the hardest were the ones that had coaching changes, Southern Illinois (10), UIC (10), Indiana State (9), Drake (8) and Missouri State (8). Belmont’s four players in the transfer seems mild, but the Bruins lost their three leading scorers.

In the SEC, new coach John Calipari will have a complete rebuild as Arkansas has a league-leading nine players in the portal. Vanderbilt is next with six.

Stetson has the most in the Atlantic Sun with 10, the same as UT Martin in the OVC. Sam Houston and New Mexico State have the most in CUSA with six each.

Only two teams had zero players in the portal: Valparaiso in the Valley and Western Kentucky in CUSA.

Looking at the numbers on a per team basis, the MVC still has the most at 5.5, followed by the OVC at 4.1, the ASUN at 3.9, the SEC at 3.5 and CUSA at 3.4

Team-by-team transfer portal numbers

Atlantic Sun (47)

Stetson: 10, North Alabama 6, Eastern Kentucky 5, Lipscomb 5, Queens 5, Florida Gulf Coast 4, Central Arkansas 4, Jacksonville 3, Kennesaw State 3, North Florida 3, Austin Peay 2, Bellarmine 2.

Conference USA (31)

Sam Houston 6, New Mexico State 6, Liberty 4, UTEP 4, Florida International 3, Jacksonville State 3, Middle Tennessee 3, Louisiana Tech 2, Western Kentucky 0

Missouri Valley (67)

UIC 10, Southern Illinois 10, Indiana State 9, Drake 8, Missouri State 8, Northern Iowa 6, Belmont 4, Bradley 4, Illinois State 3, Murray State 3, Evansville 2, Valparaiso 0.

Ohio Valley (46)

UT Martin 10, Southern Indiana 6, Tennessee State 5, Southeast Missouri 4, SIUE 4, Western Illinois 4, Little Rock 3, Morehead State 3, Tennessee Tech 3, Eastern Illinois 2, Lindenwood 2.

SEC (49)

Arkansas 9, Vanderbilt 6, Georgia 5, Mississippi State 5, Auburn 4, Kentucky 3, Mississippi 3, Missouri 3, Tennessee 3, Alabama 2, LSU 2, South Carolina 2, Florida 1, Texas A&M 1.