Blake Lehmann

As the first of the dice fall during March Madness and heading into April, it immediately becomes transfer season, and the online portal database has become a central part of college basketball talk in the offseason. Absolutely no school is safe from taking hits and being part of the gossip—not even NKU. Over the past two weeks, six student athletes from the men’s basketball team have declared their entry into the portal, effectively ending their time at NKU.

Blake Lehmann, Sports Editor Normally when the central part of an underdog team’s game plan isn’t working, it entails that they’ll end up losing by a significant margin. And normally when you’re a 16-seed going up against one of the best teams in the NCAA in the month of March, that expectation goes up even further. For the NKU men’s basketball team Thursday night in their 16-versus-1-seed matchup against the Houston Cougars, that central part of the game plan was sinking the three-point shot.