Wisconsin basketball continued its red-hot transfer portal recruiting stretch on Sunday, adding a commitment from San Diego State guard Nick Boyd.
Boyd is the Badgers' third four-star transfer commitment of the last week, following Virginia guard Andrew Rohde and Portland forward Austin Rapp. He joins with a final year of eligibility remaining.
With senior backcourt starters Max Klesmit and John Tonje gone to graduation, Boyd's combination of experience and production should fill a key leading role in Wisconsin's leading unit. The 6-foot-3 guard averaged 29.9 minutes, 13.4 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.9 assists at San Diego State in 2024-25. That included shooting numbers of 41% from the floor and 35% from 3. Before that standout campaign, Boyd helped lead FAU to a surprising Final Four run in 2022-23.
He, Rohde and Rapp all shot at least 35% from long-range last season, signaling one of Wisconsin's clear transfer priorities. The team's updated projected starting unit of John Blackwell, Boyd, Rohde, Rapp and Nolan Winter can all handle the basketball and shoot from long range. While Klesmit, Tonje and Steven Crowl are challenging to replace, Greg Gard and his staff may have done exactly that.
Wisconsin appears to be amid a best-case-scenario transfer cycle, still with more movement to come. For context on the team's three key commitments, here is where its transfer class ranks nationally, per 247Sports:
Wisconsin basketball updated 2025 transfer portal class ranking with top-ranked G Nick Boyd
Class Profile: Three commits (three four-stars), 91.33 average player rating, 25.61 total points
247Sports National Rank: No. 16
Big Ten Rank: No. 4
247Sports ranks Boyd as the No. 45 overall transfer and No. 11 shooting guard. It has Rapp at No. 171 overall and the No. 32 power forward, plus Rohde at No. 167 overall and the No. 49 shooting guard. As mentioned, all three are four-star transfer ...
