On Wednesday evening, Tad Boyle and the Colorado Buffaloes lost a role player to the transfer portal with junior guard Javon Ruffin electing to go portaling.
Ruffin, a 6-foot-5 guard from New Orleans, Louisiana, spent the previous three seasons at Colorado, seeing action in 75 games and earning 12 starts.
In his junior season, Ruffin posted 5.6 points, 2.1 assists, and two rebounds per game on 37.1% shooting from the field. He saw action in all 33 games for Colorado in 2024-25, averaging 20.3 minutes per game.
Coming out of Isidore Newman High School in the Class of 2021, Ruffin was listed as a three-star prospect by the 247Sports index and the nation’s 132nd-ranked player. He also checked in as the 35th-ranked player at his position and the top-ranked player in the state of Louisiana.
The transfer portal officially opened on Monday, March 24, 2025. According to NCAA data, 1,296 FBS basketball players entered the transfer portal in the 2023-24 school year, with 864 (66.7%) undergraduates and 432 (33.3%) graduate transfers. Of the entrants, 70% reported that they enrolled in another school, 6% withdrew their names from the portal, and 23% are still active, transferred to a non-NCAA school, or left their sport.
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