On Monday evening, Bobby Hurley and the Arizona State Sun Devils lost a key player to the transfer portal with freshman star Amier Ali electing to go portaling.
Ali, a 6-foot-8 guard from Little Elm, Texas, developed into one of the Big 12’s best freshmen in 2024-25 and will now seek a new home in the portal going forward.
The news was first reported by Workin It Hoops, who noted, “Amier Ali is entering the portal, per source. Long, skilled, sharpshooting wing who is one of the HIGHEST UPSIDE players in the portal!!”
In his first season of college basketball, Ali posted 5.5 points and 3.1 rebounds on 37.2% shooting from the field. He saw action in 32 games for the Sun Devils, with his biggest outings coming against Texas Tech (18/7), Oklahoma State (12/10), and Arizona (13/5).
Coming out of Canyon International Academy in the Class of 2024, Ali was listed as a four-star prospect by the 247Sports index and the nation’s 75th-ranked player. He also checked in as the 20th-ranked player at his position and the fifth-ranked player in the state of Arizona.
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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