Welcome to the 2025 men’s basketball offseason live tracker! We’ll be updating this page as news breaks all offseason long, so make sure to check back here for the very latest.
Transfer Portal (Losses)
3/25/25 — Jr. Collin Metcalf (Source)
VerbalCommits reported Tuesday that Collin Metcalf had entered the transfer portal. The 6’9″ center is the sixth and final member of the recruiting class of 2026 to depart Northeastern.
Another quiet recruit, Metcalf chose Northeastern over Coppin State and Siena. He didn’t play much as a freshman, but came on towards the back half of his sophomore campaign, showcasing defensive potential and going for a career-best 14 points and nine rebounds in the Huskies’ first-round CAA tournament loss to Stony Brook.
Metcalf came into his own as a junior, taking over as the lead center. He played in all 32 games, starting 29, and exploded, finishing 10th in the country in blocks and earning CAA First Team All-Defense honors. While he didn’t shine on offense — the big man averaged just four points per game — he showcased improved touch around the basket, and his video-game leaping ability will make him a premier lob threat and defensive game-changer for whoever picks him up.
— Jacob Phillips
3/24/25 — Jr. Rashad King (Source)
Rashad King announced in a statement Monday morning that he’d enter the transfer portal. King becomes the fifth member of the class of 2026 to exit, following Chase Cormier, Jared Turner, Harold Woods, and Masai Troutman.
King chose Northeastern as a relatively unheralded recruit, choosing the Huskies over offers from UM Kansas City and Air Force, among others. King struggled as a freshman, but showed real promise as a sophomore, starting in 20 games and boosting his numbers across the board to 8.3 points, 2.6 assists, and 3.2 rebounds a night while appearing in 31 games and starting 20.
In his junior season, King exploded, earning All-CAA First Team honors while serving as Northeastern’s best player. He often carried the team, leading the Huskies in points, assists, steals, minutes, and free throw percentage while starting all 32 contests. In a season full of career nights, he saved his best for last, hitting a contested, fadeaway buzzer-beating jumper to beat William & Mary in the regular-season finale.
Calling King’s junior season an all-timer would not be an overstatement, and he’ll have no shortage of suitors in the portal. Expect to see Rashad playing in a power conference next season — and playing very well.
King’s exit leaves the Huskies with four open roster spots.
4/2/25 UPDATE: King committed to LSU. (Source)
– Jacob Phillips
3/20/25 — Jr. Masai Troutman (Source)
LeagueRDY reported Thursday that Masai Troutman would be entering the transfer portal, making him the second member of the junior class to depart in as many days.
As a recruit, Troutman opted to sign with Northeastern over a litany of major programs, including Northwestern and Florida. After a promising freshman year, Troutman started all 32 games as a sophomore, notching 10 points, 1.8 assists, and 3.6 rebounds per game.
As a junior, Troutman received preseason All-CAA honors, but an injury-plagued campaign shoehorned him into only playing 13 games. The 6’4″ guard was impressive in his limited appearances, though, averaging 13.5 points per game on improved efficiency, especially from beyond the three-point line. His best stretch as a Husky came this season, when he scored in double figures in nine of ten games.
Troutman’s injury issues may have derailed what promised to be a special junior campaign, but his pure scoring ability will undoubtedly be coveted. His departure leaves Northeastern with three available roster spots.
4/14/25 UPDATE: Troutman committed to George Mason University. (Source)
– Jacob Phillips
3/19/25 — Jr. Harold Woods (Source)
The Field of 68’s Sean Paul reported Wednesday that Harold Woods would enter the transfer portal, drawing his three-year career at Northeastern to a close.
The 6’5” Woods was a little-known recruit when he signed with the Huskies, but quickly became an integral part of Bill Coen’s program, playing in 90 games across three seasons. He saw significant jumps in minutes in each year, and set career-highs in points (11.8), assists (2.4), and rebounds (7.2) per game in 2024-25, while starting 30 games. Woods operated as a Swiss-Army knife of sorts, often guarding the opponent’s best forward while ranging all over the floor offensively.
Woods’ best game as a Husky came on November 16, when he logged a 26-point double-double in a romp over Central Connecticut.
His shooting struggles are well-documented, but his tenacity, finishing, and rebounding ability will certainly attract interest in the portal. His departure leaves Northeastern with two available roster spots.
4/13/25 UPDATE: Woods committed to University of the Incarnate Word. (Source)
– Jacob Phillips
Transfer Portal (Additions)
4/1/25 — So. Mike Loughnane (Source)
Former Davidson guard Mike Loughnane announced via social media Tuesday afternoon that he has committed to Northeastern, the Huskies’ first pickup out of the transfer portal of the offseason. Loughnane started 32 games last year during his sophomore season with the Wildcats, averaging 5.1 PPG and shooting 34-for-91 (37%) from three-point range, in addition to recording an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.57.
Loughnane is a local product, playing four years at Boston College High School, where his father Bill has been the head coach since 2004. The Quincy native also completed a postgraduate year at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before joining Davidson.
Loughnane is following in his father’s footsteps in committing to Northeastern — Bill Loughnane played with the Huskies from 1976 to 1980, finishing his Northeastern career with 500 assists, and he still holds the Huskies’ all-time record for most assists recorded in a game (15, against Delaware during his sophomore season). The junior Loughnane posted a picture of his father with Jim Calhoun, his head coach during his time at Northeastern, alongside his commitment announcement.
The arrival of Loughnane is the first step for Bill Coen in rebuilding a roster that has already seen four star juniors enter the portal themselves. Loughnane figures to bring some outside shooting as well as ballhandling ability at the point, the latter of which will be especially important given the departure of Rashad King.
— Jordan Walsh
4/14/25 — RFr. Xander Alarie (Source)
Former Miami forward Xander Alarie announced Monday he’d committed to Northeastern, as the Huskies’ second transfer addition of the offseason.
The 6’8″ forward redshirted as a freshman at the University of Miami, but played his high school ball for St. Francis Prep in Washington D.C., the same school as former Northeastern guard Masai Troutman. He arrives on Huntington Avenue with four seasons of eligibility remaining, and adds depth to a frontcourt that currently consists of Youri Fritz and freshman Tyler Francis.
Alarie’s father, Mike, made three All-ACC teams at Duke and played five years in the NBA.
– Jacob Phillips
5/9/25 — Sr. Haris Elezovic (Source)
Former West Virginia forward Haris Elezovic has committed to Northeastern, his agent told The Field of 68’s Jeff Goodman on Friday. Elezovic played sparingly for the Mountaineers last season, logging 53 total minutes in 13 games of action.
Elezovic spent the first three years of his collegiate career in his home country of Canada. The Quebec native averaged a double-double (12.0 PPG and 11.8 RPG) during his junior year at Laval University, leading his conference in rebounding. He was the team’s leading rebounder for 14 of the 16 games that season, including a career-high performance against UQAM where he grabbed 26 boards.
He spent the two years before that at McGill University in Montreal, where he averaged 13.9 PPG and 9.9 RPG in his sophomore season. The summer prior to that season, McGill faced three NCAA Division I teams in summer exhibition games (Florida State, Vermont, and Oregon), and Elezovic recorded a double-double in each contest.
Elezovic represents yet another Canadian recruit for Bill Coen in recent years, joining players like Maxime Boursiquot, Jahmyl Telfort, Coleman Stucke, Nikola Djogo, and Luka Sakota. With the two Canadian Huskies on last season’s team — Alex Nwagha and Sam Thomson — both graduating, Elezovic’s arrival ensures that there will be at least one Canadian on the Huskies’ roster for the tenth consecutive year.
Elezovic is an important frontcourt pickup for Northeastern, following the loss of starting center Collin Metcalf to the transfer portal and the departures of Nwagha and Thomson. He hails from the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, which has also produced two recent Huskies ice hockey players, Cristophe Tellier and Maude Poulin-Labelle.
— Jordan Walsh
Freshman Commits
6’3″ G Xavier Abreu (Phillips Academy Andover) (Source)
6’8″ F Tyler Francis (Hotchkiss (CT)) (Source)
6’5″ G/F Miles Newton (Breck (MN)) (Source)