BYU players enter portal

BYU lost a starter and two depth pieces in about a day, and the timing tells you what college basketball looks like now: the season ends, the transfer portal opens, and rosters start moving immediately. Kennard Davis Jr. entered first, then Tyler Mrus and KJ Perry followed on April 9. (sports.ksl.com 1) (sports.ksl.com 2) Davis is the one that changes the rotation on paper, because he started all 32 games he played for Brigham Young University in 2025-26 and still had one year of eligibility left. The 6-foot-6 wing averaged 8.5 points, 2.7 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.1 steals after transferring in from Southern Illinois. (sports.ksl.com) (deseret.com) Mrus was brought in for shooting after two seasons at Idaho, but his role shrank after nonconference play. He made 29 percent of his three-point attempts in his lone season in Provo, which is a hard number to survive on when your job is spacing the floor. (sports.ksl.com) (sports.yahoo.com) Perry’s exit is different because he never logged a minute for the Cougars. The 6-foot-3 guard enrolled midyear, redshirted the second half of the season, and entered the portal before ever appearing in a game. (deseret.com) (sports.yahoo.com) This is not just three names leaving. By April 9, multiple reports had BYU up to six portal entrants, with Davis joining earlier departures that included point guard Robert Wright III, center Xavion Staton, wing Dominique Diomande, Mrus and Perry. (deseret.com) (si.com) That matters because Davis and Wright were starters, not end-of-bench players. The Daily Herald reported on April 9 that BYU will likely open 2026-27 with five new starters after the latest departures. (heraldextra.com) The portal opened on April 7, one day after the national title game, and the volume across the sport was immediate. KSL reported that more than 1,000 men’s players had entered in less than 12 hours, which is why programs now rebuild like professional teams in fast-forward every April. (ksl.com) BYU is built for that kind of churn more than most schools because Kevin Young has already used transfers as roster construction, not just emergency patchwork. Davis himself arrived from Southern Illinois in April 2025, and Mrus arrived from Idaho in the same offseason. (universe.byu.edu) (sports.ksl.com) So the immediate picture is simple: BYU did not just lose three players, it lost one everyday starter, one specialist who never fully locked in a role, and one developmental guard before he ever debuted. In April 2026, that is less a final verdict on the roster than the opening week of the next one. (sports.ksl.com 1) (sports.ksl.com 2)